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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
An education catastrophe existed even before the pandemic, but it is clearly exacerbated now. Yet like every year, this year too the Ministry of Education’s allocation is whittled down to a fraction of its ask. To ignore it so comprehensively defies all logic.
At a time of growing hunger and malnutrition, the Union Budget 2021 has actually reduced allocations for crucial social security schemes such as the ICDS, midday meals, maternity entitlements, and the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act.
A Dual Metabolic Rupture between humanity and the planet is taking place, as industrial pollution destroys our ecosystem, and agribusiness generates wave after wave of killer pathogen. Globalised, financialised monopoly-capitalism has become an existential threat to life on Earth.
The ILO estimates that the Covid-19 crisis caused a loss of 8.8% of global working hours in 2020—the equivalent of 255 million full-time jobs.
The crisis of the pandemic, the economic crisis, the political crisis, and the ecological crisis all ultimately comprise a four-fold public health mega-crisis. An ancient principle of justice points to solutions for this mega-crisis of today.
Contrary to the government’s claims of an economic recovery, millions of young Indians laid off last year remain jobless.
These are: how much did the government claim to have spent in 2020-21, and how much does it intend to spend in 2021-22. They will determine whether there is any real hope of sustained macroeconomic recovery in the near future.
A survey of reforms in health policies in India over the past two decades – actually a string of privatisation policies – indicates that we have moved away from and not towards Universal Health Coverage. What then needs to be done?
The world’s ten richest men, says an Oxfam report, have seen their combined wealth increase by half a trillion dollars since the pandemic began—more than enough to pay for a COVID-19 vaccine for everyone and to ensure no one is pushed into poverty by the pandemic.
2021 is a crucial year for Nicaragua, with national elections due in November. With Biden coming to power, will the US administration continue its attempts to sabotage the elections? And can Nicaragua once again defend its sovereignty against US and other foreign interference?
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