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The saga of Pulses in India: Daily Editorial
Context Around this time last year, pulses price was soaring to as much as 200/kg in the backdrop of successive droughts in 2014, 2015. This year situation is somewhat under control but there are heightened concerns at the policy level to find ways and means to augment pulses supplies. The Government has taken several measures…
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Prelims Capsule: Public Finance / Fiscal Policy
In the previous posts, we did basics of Macroeconomics, National Accounting through GDP, Alternative measures to GDP, this week we will do the Fiscal Policy and its tools and all the related terminology. We can expect to get 2-3 questions from this chapter. What is a Fiscal policy? A Fiscal policy is used by the…
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Daily Editorial – Supporting Mothers: Maternity Benefits (Amendment), 2016
Context The Maternity Benefit (Amendment) Bill, 2016 is passed by the Parliament on March 10th. The Bill is an amendment to the Maternity Benefit Act, 1961, which protects the employment of women and entitles her to full-paid absence from work to take care of her child. Once the President gives his assent to the Bill,…
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Buy Indian Policy : Daily Editorial
Context There is news floating around that, the government is mulling to propose “Buy Indian” Policy that is similar to Trump’s Buy American policy to promote its flagship Make in India programme through a national government procurement policy. What is the policy about? The policy being considered involves purchases of Rs 2 trillion a year…
