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Farm laws: First principles and the political economy of agricultural market regulation

Wrapping up the Symposium on farm laws, Mekhala Krishnamurthy and Shoumitro Chatterjee contend that regulatory reforms are an important but limited part of what must be both a more comprehensive and c...

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Farm laws: Potential for positive outcomes

Siraj Hussain contends that while the farm laws may have medium- to long-term benefits for Indian agriculture, following parliamentary processes for their passage and efforts to build consensus would ...

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ग्रामीण भारत में स्कूल का चयन: धारणा बनाम वास्तविकता

कम शुल्क वाले निजी स्कूलों की संख्या मे वृद्धि होने के साथ भारत में स्कूलों के विकल्पों में काफी वृद्धि हुई है और इसे स्कूली शिक्षा के लिए बाजार-आधारित दृष्टिकोण के अंतर्गत महत्वपूर्ण माना जाता है। ग्...

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Farm laws: Unlikely to bring transformative change

Sanjay Kaul discusses the benefits and drawbacks of the farm laws for all stakeholders – farmers, businesses, commission agents, and the government – and concludes that given the dynamics involved, th...

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ड्यूएट: लागत और लाभों की तुलना

ज्यां द्रेज़ के ड्यूएट प्रस्‍ताव पर अपने विचार रखते हुए फर्ज़ाना आफ्रीदी यह तर्क देती हैं कि हमें सामान्‍य समतुल्‍यता कार्य संरचना के अंदर सरल आय आश्‍वासन योजना की बजाय, संभवत: प्रशासनिक रूप से जटिल शह...

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Farm laws: Design leaves much to be desired

Sukhpal Singh examines the potential implications of the farm laws in view of the existing mechanisms of agricultural marketing, and highlights certain design flaws.

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Farm laws: Liberalisation of agricultural marketing is necessary

Providing his perspective on the farm laws, Bharat Ramaswami contends that the liberalisation of agricultural marketing is the necessary direction – a view endorsed in the past across the political sp...

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Introduction to e-Symposium: Understanding the new farm laws

Would the farm laws help increase farmers’ incomes? Could farmers benefit from an expanded access to markets? Would they be more willing to engage in contracts with urban firms because of the law on c...

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A permanent cordon-sanitaire: Dalits and Muslims in urban India

Near-perfect segregation and hierarchical ordering of residential space, based on caste or religious identity, is a well-known feature of rural India. Studies have also documented the persistence of s...

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DUET: Some practical concerns

Providing her perspective on Jean Drèze’s DUET proposal for an urban work programme, Ashwini Kulkarni raises pertinent questions about the implementation process. She outlines the role of ‘labour cont...

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DUET: The industrial policy angle

Providing her perspective on Drèze’s DUET proposal for an urban work programme, Swati Dhingra contends that addressing the immediate, monumental problem of joblessness arising from the Covid-19 pandem...

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कोविड-19: ‘आभासी महामारी’ और महिलाओं के खिलाफ हिंसा

महिलाओं के खिलाफ हिंसा दुनिया भर में एक समस्या है जिसकी आर्थिक लागतें वैश्विक जीडीपी में 1% से 4% तक आती हैं। यह लेख इस बात की जांच करता है कि भारत में कोविड-19 लॉकडाउन के दौरान महिलाओं के खिलाफ हिंसा...

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