The Modi government is gutting the rural job “guarantee,” fulfilling a longstanding demand of the most rapacious sections of ...

In a striking announcement this April, the World Bank claimed that India has successfully lifted 171 million people out of extreme poverty over the decade spanning 2011-12 to 2022-23. According to its ...

Last week, Parliament repealed the two-decade old Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) and passed ...

The globally acclaimed MGNREGA, enacted when the Congress party was in power, has been replaced by a law that puts in place a ...

The repeal of MGNREGA dismantles India’s right to work. VB-GRAMG centralises power, weakens labour rights, and reshapes rural ...

India is home to one of the world's most ambitious social programmes - a jobs guarantee that gives every rural household the legal right to paid work. Launched in 2005 by a Congress party government, ...

New Delhi [India], April 27 (ANI): The World Bank's recent report shows a significant drop in extreme poverty in India, with the government and opposition Congress both claiming credit for the ...

India’s beef debate is about power, not faith – who eats well, who goes hungry, who trades, who profits, and who is punished.

The Economic Issues series aims to make available to a broad readership of nonspecialists some of the economic research being produced on topical issues by IMF staff. The series draws mainly from IMF ...