Governance

Can Existing Digital Financial Services in India Bridge the Gender Gap?

Economy, Governance /

The gender gap has been the root of multiple socio-economic and political problems. The Global Gender Gap Report, by the World Economic Forum, delivers the numerical situation of gender equivalency under the following four themes: economic participation and opportunity, educational attainment, health and survival, and political empowerment.  Since 2006, there has been a stable progress […]

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Does India Really Need 10,000 New Farmer Producer Organizations?

Economy, Governance /

India does not need 10,000 new Farmer Producer Organizations. It needs better support for the existing ones.  On 9th Feb 2021, the Ministry of agriculture disclosed the “Promotion and formation of 10000 FPO” and allocated the budget of RS.6865 crores. The question though stands if we need a scheme for formation of 10,000 FPO. A

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Swachh Bharat Mission: Grameen (SBM-G) Through Behavioural Lens

Governance /

Sound Public Policies target the minds of the people. They are there to change the behavior of the public to benefit society. One such well-known policy is “Swacch Bharat Mission – Grameen (SBM-G)”. It had shifted its focus from production outputs (i.e. toilet construction) to behavioral outcomes (open-defecation-free [ODF]). It focused on active involvement by

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Comparing Employment and the Incidence of Poverty in U.P. and Bangladesh

Economy, Governance /

Bangladesh and U.P. are both one of the most populated regions globally. Other than population, there are other various parameters where they can be compared. In the given write-up, we have compared the unemployment and incidence of poverty between these two regions. Further, we have also tried to understand its implications.  Bangladesh: From the Bottomless

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The Law of Sedition and the Crucifixion of Free Speech

Governance, Legislature /

“Section 124A, under which I am happily charged is perhaps the prince among the political sections of the IPC designed to suppress the liberty of the citizen. Affection cannot be manufactured or regulated by the law.” – Mahatma Gandhi Indian Constitution and the liberty of Indian people is the outcome of a very long struggle against

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India’s Coal Crisis: how were government policies responsible?

Governance /

Energy security concerns are a crucial component structuring Indian national and international policy impacting our country’s national development and economic self-sufficiency, its global positioning as an economic and political power and its strategic advantages in international relations. Energy security also emerges as a particularly relevant concern given the contrast between India’s aims of increasing digitalisation

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The Myth of Growth

Governance /

In 1956, Charles Tiebout, an American economist devised an economic model (dubbed as ‘The Tiebout Model’) geared at advancing the ‘federal argument’ through a fiscal-financial fusion. The ‘Tiebout Model’ counseled that federal units/states within a country contest for migrant influx while offering an analogue to the private sector by rendering alternative baskets of public goods.

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