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When Digital India meets a dead endA man's desperate act to claim his sister's money highlights a stark reality. India's digital progress leaves many behind. Marginalized cit...- Study highlights 'catastrophic costs' incurred by tuberculosis patients worldwideDespite many countries offering free treatment, tuberculosis patients still face significant costs. Hospitalisation and income loss are maj...
- The trilemma of inequalitiesIndia's economic growth over two decades has reduced poverty but not equitably. Covid-19 increased income, expenditure, and savings inequal...
- Aadhaar: A bit of resin is putting India’s welfare system at riskAadhaar is being very successfully used — by fraudsters. Blame it on ubiquity combined with lax controls. While the unique ID was conceived...
- Niti Aayog draws up cash transfer plan for poor SCs, STsNiti Aayog has proposed to revamp the decades-old Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribes Sub Plan which involve 41 ministries earmarking 2-20...
- Economist Jean Dreze dropped from speakers list at government conferenceJean Dreze, a noted economist who was was a member of Sonia Gandhi led National Advisory Council, was dropped from the list of speakers at ...
- What Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff should learn from CongressUnder Brazilian equivalent of erstwhile ruling Congress, Workers' Party, Brazil has had an impressive run economically, boosted by a commod...
- Brazilian election: It's Marina Silva versus Dilma Rousseff as Brazil votes for new presidentIt seems the election may go into the second round, where Rousseff and Silva will fight it out for 20 more days before the final vote takes...
- Cash transfer schemes effective way to help poor: World Bank resident Jim Yong KimWithout naming India, which is implementing the cash transfer programme, Jim described the scheme as an important step towards inclusive gr...
- Lessons from Brazil to get rid of povertyIn Brazil, income inequality, measured by Gini coefficient, declined from 0.553 in 2002 to 0.500 in 2011.
- Don’t rush with cash transfers as it needs preparationCash transfers to hand out subsidies is sensible, but a national rollout needs preparation as it can reduce inter-generational transmission...
- Direct Cash Transfer scheme: India must learn from Latin America and KenyaNow that the direct cash transfer (DCT) scheme has been accepted for implementation, the challenge is to design a programme that is Indian.
- How Brazil's cash transfer scheme cut inequality by 17% in five years'There was a lot of criticism. Our tendency was to establish a limit. But the president said no – the poorer the family, the larger the fam...
- World adopts Rio+20 declaration, pledges $513 billion for sustainable development projectsIn a huge victory for emerging countries like India and Brazil, the world leaders adopted ‘the future we want’ declaration on sustainable d...
- Will Direct cash transfer be a better reform than fuel and fertiliser subsidy?Nandan Nilekani will finalise a report to govt which could prove turning point in India's largely-failed attempt to reform its bloated subs...
- Delivering subsidies through DCTThree challenges confront Nilekani committee deliberating on delivering subsidies through direct cash transfers.
- Creating a subaltern stimulusBy making choices available to the poor, the NREGA-plus avoids the assumption that all poor are ready to engage in physical work only.
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