How Long will New Delhi Let Washington Do as it Pleases?
US ships are setting a precedent for other navies to violate Indian territorial seas at will.
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Instead of Strengthening Infra for Food Security, Govt. Moves in Opposite Direction
While the public infrastructure in place under the PDS and NFSA has come to the rescue in this situation of dire need, data reveals that the stock of food grains distributed during the pandemic constituted a small proportion of the stocks available for distribution in the central pool.
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Declining Female Work Participation in India: What does the Periodic Labour Force Survey Tell Us?
Women’s participation in the workforce has hugely declined over the period 2004-05 to 2018-19. The work participation rate (WPR) of women in the 15-59 age group has declined by 19.2 percent over this period, and there is a nearly 50 percentage point gap between males and female WPRs.
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‘I Can’t Earn More than Rs 125 a Day No Matter How Hard I Work’
India’s 96 million informal workers fight gender bias and pay gaps. An examination of the situation in the textiles and garments sector, where many women workers put in over 12 hours a day, six days a week, but do not have the negotiating power to demand better wages or working conditions.
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Failure to Rapidly ‘Vaccinate the World’ May Lead to Covid-19 Mutations; The Rich Have Enough Money to Vaccinate the World – Two Articles
Experts warn: failure to rapidly ‘vaccinate the world’ may lead to Covid-19 mutations proliferating widely enough to make a majority of first-generation vaccines ineffective; Global billionaire wealth surged $4 trillion during pandemic, while cost of vaccinating the world is only $141.2 billion.
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A Disconnect that Shows the Real State of the Country’s Economy
Official figures claim that the economy is on the road to recovery. But a closer look at these figures contradict this rosy picture of the economy. Two articles.
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Government Plan to Privatise Public Sector Undertakings May Just Help Corporates Get Richer
The government’s plan to privatise Public Sector Undertakings makes no economic sense as it will just help crony capitalists.
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Walmart, Amazon and the Colonial Deindustrialisation of India
On 8 January 2021, JACAFRE published an open letter saying that the three new farm laws will effectively make farmers and small traders of agricultural produce subservient to the interests of a few agrifood and e-commerce giants or will eradicate them completely.
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Covid-19 Lockdown: Impact on Daily Wage Workers – Four Articles
Household incomes in india are yet to recover from the Covid-19 lockdown shock; How daily wage workers in india suffered in the lockdown; COVID-19 laid bare the exploitation that domestic workers face; Lockdown fallout: Distress stalks garment workers in Ludhiana.
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Privatising Indian Insurance
The risks of private ownership and the advantages of public ownership make inducting foreign investment into and privatising insurance a completely irrational policy. Plus an extract from a pamphlet written in 2014 against privatisation of insurance.
