India must remember that the 1997 Asian financial crisis was exacerbated by tight monetary policy, forced on by IMF conditionality
Read MoreDespite the increasing number of women pursuing secondary and post-secondary education, India’s women keep dropping out. Since 2005, more than 25 million Indian women have left the labour force
Read MoreIndia is a large and heterogeneous country and there are considerable variations across States and within them. Such laggard regions pull down all-India trends
Read MoreJaitley’s budget has nine pillars: Agriculture, rural development, health, education and jobs, infrastructure, financial reforms, governance and ease of doing business, prudent fiscal management, and tax-administration reforms.
Read MoreThe SDGs are much bolder and more aspirational and differ from the Millennium Development Goals (SDGs) which were adopted in 2000 for the period 2000-2015
Read MoreEnlightened self-interest requires that the private sector must no longer shirk its responsibility with regard to the community or to the environment which sustains them
Read MoreAlmost 90% of child deaths from diarrhoeal diseases are directly linked to contaminated water, lack of sanitation or inadequate hygiene, according to a UNICEF report
Read MoreThis in a country that boasts a 40-year-old national child-health programme– now among the world’s largest–and increased spending on child health 200% over a decade.
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