The sad experience of several Asian countries such as China, Indonesia and the Philippines, which introduced social insurance for private healthcare provisions at low levels of per capita income, is a ...

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On 1 February 2025, India’s finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented her record eighth budget in Parliament. Her budgets have usually been characterized by three signature features: transparency, ...

From the very day of his second appointment as US President, Donald Trump has unleashed a blitzkrieg of executive orders which have turned many US policies on their head, sacked large numbers of ...

It may be the world's sixth largest, but most other things about India's economy are up for debate. The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is under fire for the release of new historical GDP figures ...

The budget should be assessed recognizing the challenging context in which it has been prepared. Externally, the global economy is heading towards stagflation. India remains the fastest growing major ...

I recently revisited Palamu (now a division of three districts: Palamu, Latehar and Garhwa) after 45 years to plan a re-survey of four villages I had surveyed in the late 1970s (see Sudipto Mundle, ...

Development, Distribution, and Markets edited by Kaushik Basu, Maitreesh Ghatak, Kenneth Kletzer, Sudipto Mundle and Eric Veerhoogen, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2021; pp vii + 328, `1,495.

It is nearly a month since US President Donald Trump launched his trade war. Simultaneously, he has continued to wage war against immigration, decimated the US government, attacked liberal ...