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Budget 2021: Devil in details
February 3, 2021
For weeks, it had been touted as the most crucial budget that an Indian finance minister has had to place before the Parliament in several decades, if not since the independence of the country. After all, this was the first budget that the government has presented since the full-...
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Budget 2021: Focus on demand boost, inequalities & jobs
January 31, 2021
Rare are the occasions when an Indian finance minister would pay heed to a report by a charity about what she needs to do in order to set the country’s malaise right. But on February 1, when union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman steps up to present the union budget for 2021...
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International Equal Pay Day: COVID-19 pushes Indian women from low pay to no pay
September 18, 2020
A mid-career tourism professional with over 10 years of experience behind her, Sharda Wagh was working in a leading travel firm in Mumbai in the Domestic FIT operations wing and was content with her career and life. All was fine until the COVID-19 pandemic hit India and the gover...
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Latest reforms dilute workers’ rights in India
May 27, 2020
Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s famed INR 20 trillion bailout package delivers a blow to workers even as job losses, triggered by lockdown, rise to highest level in over 40 years.
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Broken economies benefitting billionaires
January 24, 2020
As per the recent Oxfam Billionaires report, India's richest 1 pc hold more than four-times the wealth held by 953 million people who make up for the bottom 70 pc. As economic growth benefits only one percent, Amitabh Behar, CEO, Oxfam India, talks to Media India Group about the ...
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Amitabh Behar
May 31, 2018
Despite world leaders signing global agreements to reduce socio-economic inequality, gap between the rich and the rest has widened. As economic growth benefits only some percent of the social strata in India, Amitabh Behar, CEO, Oxfam India, talks about the vision of developing a...
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