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India should impose tax on ultra-wealthy to tackle wealth inequality, says studyThe paper titled 'Proposals For a Wealth Tax Package to Tackle Extreme Inequalities in India' propose a comprehensive tax package on the ul...
24 May, 2024, 07.55 PM IST
When inequality shouldn’t be a concernMilton Friedman and Friedrich Hayek argued that redistributive policies can stifle innovation and productivity. If individuals feel their e...
15 Apr, 2024, 10.49 PM IST
Congress' Rahul Gandhi vows a survey to redistribute the wealth of IndiansRahul Gandhi vows wealth redistribution if Congress wins, proposing a census to assess population and backward caste status, followed by we...
08 Apr, 2024, 10.46 AM IST
View: Market fix for inequalityThe real danger with the equality messiahs is their favoured policy prescription, namely tax. Applying Western narratives on taxing the ric...
29 Mar, 2024, 12.29 AM IST
"Bias it is": CMIE chief's defence of CPHS survey elicits fresh critical response from Jean Drèze, Anmol Somanchi"The representativeness of CPHS data cannot be assumed from the survey methodology. It must be scrutinised through comparisons with other c...
27 Jun, 2021, 03.36 PM IST
View: The time for a national relief package to prop up Covid-hit working households is nowStimulus packages for the formal economy and enterprises cannot lead to an equitable recovery in a structurally informal economy unless wor...
25 Jun, 2021, 12.10 AM IST
View: There are practical limitations in CMIE's CPHS sampling, but no biasCPHS is a household survey of a nationally representative sample in the sense that it is selected through a process of multistage stratific...
23 Jun, 2021, 11.31 PM IST
Odisha makes progress in its fight against malnutrition, but there’s still a long way to goTo achieve the next set of milestones, Garg says the focus will be on delivering services to people in areas that are hard to reach. But st...
26 Sep, 2020, 11.00 PM IST
Odisha’s maternal health scheme doing better: SurveyThe Jaccha-Baccha Survey (JABS), conducted by student volunteers in June 2019, took place in six states—Chhattisgarh, Himachal Pradesh, Jha...
19 Nov, 2019, 09.43 AM IST