GDP Estimates: Smoke And Mirrors With Economic Statistics
Growth, expressed in percentages is misleading, particularly in a period when underlying statistics are in the grip of volatility, as seen in the pandemic years.
How True Is the Health Minister’s Claim that India’s Doctor-Population Ratio Exceeds WHO Guidelines?
Ayush doctors were included to inflate the number. Further, the country does not have accurate data on the number of practicing healthcare professionals. A 2021 study found that the density of active health workforce in India is just a little over one-fourth of the WHO’s recommended threshold of 44.5 skilled health workers per 10,000 population.
The Meaning of ‘So-Called Primitive Accumulation’
Marx considered “primitive accumulation” to be a misleading and erroneous concept. Understanding what he actually wrote shines light on two essential Marxist concepts: exploitation and expropriation.
Can New Age Digital Companies Meet India’s Massive Workforce Needs?
Business models of companies reveal precarious working conditions and exploitation of employees.
Starved of Data: India’s Hungry People Go Missing From FAO Report; Global Hunger Numbers Jump
FAO’s latest report found world hunger rising. However, India’s data on food insecurity is missing. Also, another article – “Global Hunger Numbers Jump; 2.3 Billion Are ‘Food Insecure”.
The New Corporate Dictators – Super-Rich & Super-Immune
Ever since the heads of East India Trading Company (1600) and Hudson Bay Company (1670), were incorporated by English Royal charters, there have been corporate dictators. Their range and actions, have varied widely however. Today’s new corporate dictators shatter past restraints.
Petro’s Premonition
For centuries, the wreckage has piled up in Colombia – the dead and disappeared, the ‘nobodies’ discarded in the course of its uneven development. Now a storm is finally blowing in from Paradise. The task of the left – alongside Petro and the Pacto – is to guarantee that the storm does not bring darkness and sweep it all away.
Letter from Anti-Vizhinjam Adani Port Struggle Front
Blinded and mesmerized by the Rs 7525 crore port project, all governments whether the UDF led one in 2015 when the contract was signed, or the subsequent two terms of the LDF, have taken special attention to provide land and resources to the Adani Vizhinjam Port Private Limited.
Adieu Boris, Adieu
Why have Tory MPs lost their heads and defenestrated one of their very few leaders capable of galvanizing popular support? It appears to be a galloping case of the post-imperial entropy diagnosed by Tom Nairn many decades ago, through which ‘the English conservative Establishment has begun to destroy itself.’
When a Long, Dark Night Lit up with Music: The Story of the Leningrad Symphony
Even as hunger and death stalked the city of Leningrad, her citizens found in themselves the strength to defy unspeakable terror one night in August 1942.