The spillover effects of higher public investment would see a boost in demand, generate employment and develop the economy’s external compe...

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A bench of Justices Ashok Bhushan, R Subhash Reddy and M R Shah said that it is only concerned with refund and non-refund of money for tick...

Daily workers, who are the largest segment in the survey, are the hardest hit and the loss of livelihoods that has resulted from government...

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Around 20% of India’s population is below poverty line, while 31% has monthly house income below Rs 12K.

Consumers are simply not spending money this sale season, leaving business tepid everywhere.

Subsidized food vs vouchers is a debate that was thought to have been settled with the Food Guarantee Act, a polarizing issue among the civ...

Congress is readying plans to promise legislation-backed reservation for backward castes in pvt sector jobs and quotas in pvt school admiss...

In Panagariya's opinion, Sen has never called for an end to the licence-permit raj, liberalisation of foreign trade and investment in banki...

Govets usually make a mistake by trying to alleviate poverty through welfare programmes while ignoring the transformative powers of the mar...

Duflo is the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

That should sound a warning call to the government which is battling rising food prices somewhat lackadaisically thus far.

Economic Survey suggested freeing food, fertiliser subsidies. Relying heavily on fiscal/administrative measures to counter food inflation, ...

By making choices available to the poor, the NREGA-plus avoids the assumption that all poor are ready to engage in physical work only.

It will take years before an infrastructure spending program proposed by President-elect Barack Obama will boost the American economy, acco...

The United Nations food agency has sounded a fresh alarm that fast rising food prices across the globe are eroding its capacity to serve mi...