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Shinzani Jain
Listed Companies See 3rd Quarter of Exponential Profits, But Overall Economic Recovery Still a Distant Dream
05 Jun 2021
The net profits of listed companies have increased by 212.4% in the March 2021 quarter compared to March 2020. But it does not mean we are seeing ‘green shoots of recovery’!
Ashish Khetan
Denying India its Tax Revenue is Neo-colonialism. Cairn Energy is the new East India Company!
27 May 2021
Cairn Energy arbitral award will rob India’s poor of 1.2 billion dollars in tax revenue–money that could be used to build schools, hospitals or ramp up healthcare for the poor, writes
Gyan Pathak
COVID-19 Driving Up Unemployment
12 May 2021
As India faces a grim economic scenario due to the second wave of the pandemic in India, the government needs to step in to create employment opportunities.
R. Ramakumar
Why Covid Vaccination Should be Free in India
23 Apr 2021
The policy shift of the Government of India towards deregulating vaccine prices and liberalising vaccine distribution has led to much debate.
PTI
India's GDP Growth Projections Downgraded for FY2021-22 Amid Resurgence of COVID-19 Cases
18 Apr 2021
India's GDP growth had been on the decline even before the pandemic struck earlier last year.
PTI
Lockdowns to Shave $1.25 Billion a Week Off India’s Economy: Report
13 Apr 2021
The impact on the Q1 nominal GDP is likely to be higher, wiping away around 140 bps, says a Barclays estimate.
Prabhat Patnaik
Budget 2021-22: Mantras Are Not Enough to Revive the Economy
12 Feb 2021
Even if the economy does recover, as the Budget visualises, a severe unemployment problem would remain, because the distribution of this growth would be against the petty production sector that has…
Newsclick Report
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-…