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Why has official Indian data on informal enterprises been kept under wraps?

New Delhi, May 13 -- Barely a week goes by these days without an economist or policy wonk debating India's growth numbers. Establishment economists are seen to lambast India's economic statistics one ... Read More


Extraordinary legacy of a grounded economist

India, May 7 -- Next Monday (May 13) will mark the 100th birth anniversary of one of India's most accomplished economists. Kakkadan Nandanath Rajan, popularly known as KN Raj joined the Reserve Bank o... Read More


India needs a reliable database to aim its welfare schemes better

New Delhi, April 29 -- Of every rupee spent in the name of the poor, only 15 paise goes to poor households, former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi once observed, drawing attention to widespread leakages i... Read More


Why the Swatantra Party could not be resurrected

India, April 22 -- There are several differences in the election manifestos of India's two largest parties, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Indian National Congress. The two national parties ... Read More


Poverty in India: Tracking it mustn't become a casualty of politics

New Delhi, April 16 -- Elections in India seem to be incomplete these days without the background noise of a statistical controversy. Ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the suppression of an unfla... Read More