S Mahendra Dev appointed editor of EPW – ThePrint – PTIFeed theprint.in/india/s-mahend…

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Consumption-based poverty estimates have relevance - The Hindu thehindu.com/opinion/lead/c…

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My article on Dr. MS Swaminathan in Business Standard. Swaminathan's advice was not to turn Green Revolution into greed revolution business-standard.com/specials/news/…

I am attaching a link for a new book edited by me (with two other colleagues) entitled "Achieving Zero Hunger in India: Challenges and Policies" published by Springer with open access. It can be downloaded free. link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…

My article on the 16th Finance Commission was Published in Hindustan Times today epaper.hindustantimes.com/Home/ShareArti…

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Declining poverty ratio: a continuing trend epaper.thehindu.com/ccidist-ws/th/…

In this paper, Piketty and others published in EPW propose a comprehensive wealth tax package and create valuable fiscal space for crucial social sector investments epw.in/journal/2024/2…

Ratan Tata was an industry legend, philanthropist and extraordinary human being. One can learn from him how to run business ethically. He also took keen interest in improving issues like education and health particularly on child and women nutrition.

Last week, EPW brought out a special issue on ‘Review of Rural Affairs’. It uses national level secondary data and village studies.

Jean Dreze and myself showing that eggs can solve the problem of child malnutrition to some extent. At the annual conference of the Indian Association of Social Science Institutes (IASSI) at BIT, Ranchi, Jharkhand.

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Yesterday I met AP Chief Minister Sri Chandrababu Naidu and discussed various issues on economic development of AP in particular and India in general. Also discussed the activities of the research institute IDSAP( Institute for Development in Andhra Pradesh)

Today’s issue of EPW ( Economic and Political Weekly) is a special issue on Trade policy, FTA ( Free Trade Agreements) and Value Chains. 7 papers analyse the global value chains which are reshaping the trade landscape.

Good to know that S&P upgrades India's rating. We continue our good fiscal, monetary policies, macro stability and reach higher growth than the present 6.5% in the next few years.