The citizens of Greece are not the only ones who have been watching the tense negotiations between the new government in Athens (led by the radical party Syriza) and the European Union (led de facto by the Germans). Not just…
Saturday 7 February was voting day in the capital city of Delhi. So it was effectively a holiday for many workers, who only had to walk to their polling stations to cast their votes for the Assembly elections. This meant…
One of the most commonly heard platitudes about the labour market in India is that it is characterised by severe “skills mismatch”. And this in turn is presented as the chief problem of the labour market and the main cause…
The website is impressive, no doubt about it. It is sleekly designed and easy on the eye, and it appears to offer a lot of information on what is supposed to be the Modi government’s ambitious new initiative to transform…
There is a reason why budgets have to be passed in parliament (in India certainly, but also in most other countries). There is a reason why, as per the Indian Constitution, the Finance Bill that details the revenues and expenditure…
There are many ways to divide Indian society, and unfortunately we seem to be pretty good at all of them. There are material inequalities: in terms of asset ownership, incomes, consumption, access to finance, control over physical and natural resources,…
On the face of it, the campaign to clean India is something that obviously must be welcomed and accepted by every right-thinking citizen: something unexceptionable in intent and clearly desirable in stated outcomes. But it suffers from the same deficiencies…
