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No Succour For The Small Farmer

The asymmetrical equation between the powerful buyer and the much weaker seller does not change with the farm bills. Two of the three Farm Bills cleared Rajya Sabha on Sunday, September 20, 2020, under rather unpleasant circumstances. The Third Bill got passed on Tuesday, September 22, 2020, when the Opposition had boycotted the session. These are important bills and they needed to be debated properly … Continue reading No Succour For The Small Farmer

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Bad Data and Policy Making

Policies are only as good as the statistics used for arriving at the decisions – and the Indian government has been found wanting in that respect. By Prosenjit Datta, former editor of Business Today and Businessworld magazines For a government that is extremely fond of repeating that Data is the New Oil, lack of proper, accurate and timely statistics is proving to be its Achilles … Continue reading Bad Data and Policy Making

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