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Author: Anamitra Roychowdhury

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Labour Rights are in Free Fall

  • May 25, 2020
  • Anamitra Roychowdhury
  • Economy and Society, Macroeconomics
  • 0 Comments

As India slowly attempts to lift its nationwide lockdown, under compulsion of reviving the economy, labour rights are disappearing at an astonishing pace. Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat, which are States ruled by the Bharatiya Janata Party, took the…

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Why Aggregate Employment in India is Shrinking?

  • July 29, 2019
  • Anamitra Roychowdhury
  • Employment
  • 0 Comments

The jobs crisis prominently visible among rural females earlier has now spread to the rural male segment Question of livelihoods and the lived reality of people, sooner or later, catch up with any democratically elected government. One of the major…

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Curbing Child Rape: Are we barking up the wrong tree?

  • May 11, 2018
  • Anamitra Roychowdhury
  • Development Economics, Economy and Society
  • 0 Comments

The ghastly incident of gang rape and murder of an eight-year old child in Kathua has shaken the conscience of the nation. The outpouring of anger – revealed in the spate of protests – from different parts of the country…

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What the data tells us about ‘Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas’?

  • May 26, 2017
  • Anamitra Roychowdhury
  • Fiscal Policy, Macroeconomics, Poverty
  • 0 Comments

Public memory in India is amnesic. Still, it is difficult to forget that Narendra Modi rode to power in 2014 on the plank of promoting development, aptly captured by ‘Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas’. This is not a novel idea in…

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