Category: Economy

Rahul Gandhi’s promise of a minimum basic income, the biggest income transfer programme to be announced, is fraught with challenges. There is a fundamental problem

Former Reserve Bank governor Raghuram Rajan Wednesday questioned the ‘minimum government and maximum governance’ promise of the Narendra Modi regime, saying the state has gained more power sans any

Former Reserve Bank governor Raghuram Rajan Wednesday admitted that he has offered his views to the Congress leadership on the Nyay scheme, wherein the main Opposition party is promising

For two and a half days, the media was full of discussion, and interpretation, of the Congress’s proposal to alleviate poverty (hereafter pap or PAP). In

Congress President Rahul Gandhi has come up with the latest instalment of welfarism with the promise of depositing Rs 6,000 per month in the accounts of 20 per

For most of January and February I was in Los Angles, California. This is the centre of the “Trump resistance” and California played a significant

British Prime Minister Theresa May said on Wednesday she would quit if her twice-defeated EU divorce deal passes at the third attempt, making a last-ditch

The criticisms of this scheme are not about cost. Rather, they are about its workability and the possibility of other and better ways of using

पुन्हा गरिबी हटाओ! एक धनादेश दोनवेळा वठविला जाऊ शकत नाही. ‘गरिबी हटाओ‘ ही घोषणा मात्र जुनेच स्वप्न लेऊन दुसऱ्यांदा पुढे आली आहे. कर्तव्यकठोर म्हणून ओळख

गरिबांना पांगुळगाडे देण्याचीच स्पर्धा दोन प्रमुख पक्षांत लागलेली आहे. त्यासाठीच्या खर्चाने तिजोरीस किती खिंडार पडणार, हे पाहिले जात नाही.. राहुल गांधींनी घोषित केलेल्या योजनेची व्याप्ती

Rajan said it would be a misrepresentation of facts to say that people didn’t want jobs. Former RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan has just given a series of wide-ranging, hard-hitting

Congress President Rahul Gandhi‘s minimum income scheme, aiming to lift five crore families or 25 crore people out of poverty, reflects a commitment to social security,

Former RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan Tuesday expressed doubts over Indian economy growing at 7 per cent when not enough jobs were being created and said the current

In the run-up to elections, Congress president Rahul Gandhi yesterday announced a minimum income scheme for poor if his party comes to power. However, the scheme is not fiscally

On the face of things, Congress president Rahul Gandhi’s election promise to give each of India’s poorest 20% families Rs 6,000 per month — that is, 12 times

To make Congress’ big election promise work, political courage of a kind not seen in India would be called for. Rahul Gandhi has revealed the