
Dipa Sinha
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Gender, nutrition, public health, social policy | #LSR #JNU #SOAS
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29-01-2013 17:43:07
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💼The BUDGET SERIES 🛑Budget Should Support Dietary Diversity to Ensure Food Security in India 📷Explains Dipa Sinha , Development Economist & Academic youtube.com/watch?v=N2RXUB… Nikhil Dey MKSS - Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan Road Scholarz Jan Swasthya Abhiyan JJSSBIHAR Jayati Ghosh Rohit Azad NREGA Sangharsh

Dipa Sinha and I write on #Budget2025 for The Hindu Explains. What the budget should do and what it can learn from 2004-11 when consumption of the common masses increased faster. #fiscal expansion with focus on #socialwelfare is needed to arrest this #slowdown tinyurl.com/sinhaazad

Despite the ‘Investing in People’ Rhetoric, Budget 2025 Does Little for the Social Sector The budgetary allocations for health, education and social protection – the primary components of investing in people – are still quite low. Dipa Sinha✍️ thewire.in/economy/despit…


Customary #Budget2025 response The Hindu Comment - as usual full of platitudes, not backed by the numbers. One red herring - the 'middle class' tax break. Overall exasperating. Why bother!


📢🗣️📘honoring Jayati Ghosh has been published. A release event & panel discussion with Profs. Diane Elson, Prabhat Patnaik, C.P. Chandrasekhar et al is due in New Delhi on🗓️1 March 2025. It is edited by former students including Sumangala Damodaran & Dipa Sinha Zoom link⤵️ networkideas.org/announcements/…


What the Time Use Survey Says About Women’s Work In 2024, women spent 19.7% of the time in a day on unpaid domestic and care work compared to 2.6% by men. Dipa Sinha✍️ thewire.in/gender/what-th…



Thread: We wrapped up the hugely gratifying Demystifying Economics Workshop held in Azim Premji University . This was the 3rd edition and was co-organised with Bahujan Economists & School for Democracy. The hope with this annual workshop is to build bridges between academia & practitioners.






What Do India's 'Growth' Numbers Imply for its People? Have people’s capabilities and freedoms expanded? Dipa Sinha✍️ thewire.in/economy/what-d…

Budget 2025- 26 | Dipa Sinha Despite the expansion of welfare programmes over the years, public investment in India covering health, education, and social protection remains low compared to global standards. epw.in/journal/2025/1…


