The Triad of Health, Education and the Demographic Dividend

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The state of the Indian Economy is right now best described as worrisome and the latest macroeconomic figures are anything but a reassurance. Dipping growth, shrinking core sectors, rising inflation with even higher unemployment is what in economic theory is defined to be a stagflation or recession-inflationary territory, even though […]

Understanding India’s Multidimensional Poverty Index (2018) status.

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What is Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI)? The Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI), developed by the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), replaced the erstwhile Human Poverty Index as a measure of deprivation in 2010.  MPI is a more holistic approach to measure deprivation than HPI since the latter focused more […]

Book Review: The Country of First Boys by Amartya Sen

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Do you ever look at the calendar on the table and wonder about it? Or do you just look for the date/s and continue with your work? Probably the latter because that is what calendars are for, right?  DD/MM/YY (or whichever format is suitable). But what if the Professor of […]

Finding a connection between Economic Freedom and Economic Equality

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Abhishek Dilip Dudhal is an alumnus of Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute. Sagar Nilay Mahajan works with PwC India. Economic analysis has been evolving during the past few decades with the increase in computational power, which has given rise to a variety of mathematical tools such as statistical modelling and machine […]