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India Drops to 131 Among 189 Countries in UN’s Human Development Index
17 Dec 2020
India's HDI value for 2019 was 0.645, which put it in the medium human development category. Singapore, Saudi Arabia and Malaysia performed the best among the Asian countries and were deemed to have…
Surajit Das
COVID-19 Lockdown: Why Compensation to Workers is Overdue in India
20 Nov 2020
The trade unions in India are demanding an ex gratia cash transfer of Rs 7,500 per month to all the workers outside the direct income tax bracket as compensation for income lost for the mo
Shinzani Jain
COVID-19: China’s Consumption Driven Recovery Hailed as ‘Big and Real’
25 Oct 2020
China, the first country to face the pandemic, had its economy register the worst quarterly fall in output in the first quarter since 1976, its GDP contracting by 6.8%. However, the world’s second-…
Rohan Deshpande
GST Imbroglio and the Angst of States Battling Financial Crunch and COVID-19
21 Oct 2020
It was deemed that the projected growth rate of states’ revenue, had it not been subsumed by GST, would be 14% per annum, with the revenue collections for Financial Year (FY) 2015-16 considered as…
Subodh Varma
Do You Know How Much Veggies are Costing, Mr. Modi?
15 Oct 2020
In just the past month, inflation (annual price rise) has zoomed up, delivering a body blow to family budgets.
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RBI Says GDP Likely to Contract by 9.5% in FY’21
09 Oct 2020
The GDP contracted by 23.9 per cent in the first quarter of the fiscal, as per the estimates of the Central Statistics Office (CSO).
Shikha Mukerjee
‘Streets will Show the Way’: How Vendors are Looking to Tide Over Economic Distress
10 Sep 2020
The National Hawkers Federation, which has about four crore members, has come up with a four-fold plan to tackle the economic fallout of the lockdown due to COVID-19.
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'Economic Contraction is 40% not 24%' - Prof. Arun Kumar
09 Sep 2020
The decline in India's gross domestic product (GDP) is much more than what the government has estimated for the three months between April and June.
Tikender Singh Panwar
GST Will Implode States; Himachal is Already Feeling the Heat
09 Sep 2020
The Centre taking the borrowing route to compensate states for the GST revenue shortfall is bound to impact a small state like Himachal Pradesh, whose major assets are nationalised.
Newsclick Team
Time to Inject Demand into Economy: Prabhat Patnaik
05 Sep 2020
The draconian lockdown imposed in India to contain the COVID-19 pandemic has left millions without work and without any purchasing power.