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Author: Subhanil Chowdhury

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Can Ayushman Bharat National Health Protection Mission protect health of India’s Poor?

  • February 20, 2019
  • Subhanil Chowdhury and Subrata Mukherjee
  • Development Economics
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The recently introduced Ayushman Bharat National Health Protection Mission has been projected as a big public intervention in the health sector for protecting the health of India’s poor and vulnerable. The health insurance scheme under Ayushman Bharat promises to offer…

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Modicare: A Revolutionary step or a ‘Giant Leap Backwards’?

  • October 18, 2018
  • Rohit Azad and Subhanil Chowdhury
  • Economy and Society
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PM Modi’s signature Ayushman Bharat programme launched on Sept 23, 2018 has been touted by most in the mainstream media as nothing short of a revolution with some calling it the biggest healthcare programme in the world. Is that so?…

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Ashok Mitra, the Former Bengal Finance Minister Who Wished He Were Forgotten

  • May 3, 2018
  • Subhanil Chowdhury
  • Development Economics
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In an age where politicians speak venomous language, have criminal backgrounds, behave in the most outrageous manner, it is difficult to imagine that a cultured person like Ashok Mitra was once the Finance Minister of West Bengal. Mitra, however, was…

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