People's Economics is a layman’s guide to socio-economic issues in India, once a month.
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Anirban, a microbiologist by training, is the author of COVID-19: Separating Fact From Fiction.
The government and big capitalists are complicit in the state of the Indian economy, where masses of people have been pushed into an acute livelihood crisis.
The discussion we must move towards is on how best the government can provide the required social goods to everyone, aiming ultimately at every individual’s overall development.
13 Sept 2022
The demonization of states is driven by a desire to hide the danger lurking in the central government’s finances.
09 Aug 2022
The NITI Aayog, which replaced the Planning Commission, has been reduced to a mere think tank whose officials act as mouthpieces of the government.
12 Jul 2022
While MSPs have risen in the past, the steady rise in input costs has absorbed most of the increases.
14 Jun 2022
Recurrent IMF loans stymied all possibilities of diversifying the productive base of the Sri Lankan economy, leading to the current crisis.
10 May 2022
There are multiple threads in the ongoing conversation on decolonization, but for a meaningful discourse, we must have an alternative on the table with political clarity.
08 Mar 2022
A ballooning fertilizer subsidy bill, due to a rise in global prices, is pushing the government to promote zero budget natural farming, which is both unsustainable and unscientific.
08 Feb 2022
Catchphrases are easy, but till social indicators don’t improve across sections of the population, no model of growth is complete or justifiable.
11 Jan 2022
The growth of free markets or capitalism does not create better employment for Dalits. It opens up new spaces for them, but several other spaces are also concurrently shut down.
14 Dec 2021