Rathin Roy: Tax Sops, Investments Won’t Erase Growth Fault Lines
Social factors play a big role in preventing development of states, says Rathin Roy, economist and former member of the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council. Critical of the penchant to manufacture for the rich, he calls for a political conversation around the need to address unmet demands for affordable access to basic necessities like healthcare, education, housing and textiles. Edited excerpts:
Parth Singh - February 02, 2024
Praycation: Religion to the Rescue of Covid-Battered Travel Sector
By investing in the development of pilgrimage destinations, governments are harnessing the potential of religious tourism as a growth driver for the overall tourism sector. At the same time, it is good politics too
Rajat Mishra - October 01, 2023
Nothing Can Correct Faulty Sampling Due to Delayed Census: Pronab Sen
The delay in conducting the census, which was due in 2021, is making old population samples less representative, Pronab Sen, head of the Standing Committee on Statistics and former chief statistician of India, says. He insists that there is nothing wrong with the sampling methodologies, rebutting allegations by Shamika Ravi, member of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister, about the samples of national surveys being faulty. According to him, the discrepancies that she has referred to were because of the difference in purpose-specific definitions
Rajat Mishra - August 28, 2023
The Nowhere Men & Women: How India Abandoned 14 Crore Citizens on a Policy Paper
The government of India runs the world’s biggest food security scheme, which provides free ration to more than 80 crore people. The scheme has won Prime Minister Narendra Modi accolades. But what if we realise that there are over 14 crore people who have been omitted from the benefit of this scheme because the government has not counted Indian citizens in over a decade? Can its intransigence break the welfare structure of governance?
Rajat Mishra - August 28, 2023
Fintech Game Is In The Data Cloud
With customer acquisition and retention as prime drivers, fintech players want data patterns on fingertips. They are embracing data cloud to make a concerted move towards data-informed efficiency and product innovation
Vinita Bhatia - August 28, 2023
Non Binary
History owes an apology to the members of this community and their families, for the delay in providing redressal for the ignominy and ostracism that they have suffered through the centuries,” wrote Indu Malhotra, a then sitting judge, as the Supreme Court decriminalised same-sex relationships in September 2018.
Suchetana Ray - April 29, 2023
Indian Economy’s Double Digit Chase For Growth
Past prime ministers have tried to take the Indian GDP growth past 6–7% range but failed. Modi’s pitch for making India rich by 2047 is fraught with old and new dangers
Neeraj Thakur - January 29, 2023
The Indian Way Of Regulating Big Tech
India wants to overhaul the mechanism through which it governs the fast-evolving tech sector and reams of data government initiatives and private sector produce. With Prime Minister Modi’s desire to imprint his muscular persona on it, the balancing act lies in its details
Kamalika Ghosh - December 31, 2022
Zoho Beyond The Bustling City
The CEO and co-founder of the global SaaS platform is betting big on rural and non-urban business centres. It is not just a one-off experiment. He has the philosophy of transnational localism informing his multi-dimensional approach to rural capacity building
Pallavi Chakravorty - November 29, 2022
The Making of A Tata Leader
Back in the 1950s, when J.R.D. Tata was looking for all-round officers for the Tata Group’s leadership structure, he was quick to spot a lacuna
July 29, 2022