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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
In both India and China, income inequality substantially grew after the economic liberalisation of the 1980s. However, while China’s inequality levels stabilised in 2019, India’s inequality levels continued to rise.
In September, amid protests against the controversial new agricultural laws, the Modi government announced the MSP for six rabi crops. Official documents show that several states, including BJP-ruled ones, said the increase was minor.
Toussant talks about whether the present economic crisis is due to the Covid-19 pandemic, on the role of the IMF, on the consequences for states and people, and the role of progressive forces.
The challenge of Corona crisis has created a new national awareness about the prevalence of several gaps and shortcomings in the prevalent process of democratic nation-building through the Liberalization – Privatization – Globalization paradigm since the 1990s.
A great many people did not vote for Joe Biden, they voted against Trump. We have to recognise how narrow this win was.
In recent years vaccines have emerged as a source of huge profits. Hence the safety and efficiency aspects of Covid-19 vaccine should get very, very careful attention.
Compared to the the seasonally adjusted fourth quarter figures of 2019, the labour hour losses for the first three quarters of 2020 for the South Asia region were 3.1, 27.3 and 18.2% respectively.
Today, everyone agrees that the best way to deal with Covid 19 is through comprehensive, equitable, universally accessible health systems. The WHO had proposed this at the Alma Ata International Conference in 1978.
2.5 lakh new cases of COVID-19 are found each day in Europe. The inability of governments in Europe, as in America, to act decisively to stop the pandemic reflects the bankruptcy of capitalism.
In his speech accepting the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade on October 18, Sen emphasised the importance of dissent and debate.
Janata Weekly is India’s oldest independent socialist weekly.
Ever since its founding in 1946, Janata has voiced its principled dissent against all conduct and practice that is detrimental to the cherished values of nationalism, democracy, secularism and socialism, while upholding the integrity and the ethical norms of healthy journalism. For more than seventy years now, week after week, it has continued to analyse the changes taking place in the country and the world from a socialist standpoint, and thus promote the spread of socialist ideology in the country.
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