Farm truths

While the full impact of El Niño will be known only later, adverse weather has already started affecting agriculture. (BLOOMBERG)

A food security threat is looming over the country’s poor this year

3 min read . 19 May 2023

We shouldn’t let Indian poverty turn into a great eternal mystery

3 min read . 05 May 2023

We require reliable data on caste to meet our aims of social justice

3 min read . 21 Apr 2023

Unlike rural wages, there is no corresponding series on urban wages from the labour bureau, which offers information on wages in the non-farm sector by industry groups

Worker incomes in India are still signalling tough circumstances

3 min read . 24 Mar 2023

India’s January inflation numbers were contrary to expectations, but aren’t really all that surprising

The curious case of India’s rising food-price inflation

4 min read . 23 Feb 2023

An urban middle-class revival is key to India’s economic recovery

3 min read . 27 Jan 2023

The PMGKY was meant to provide a cushion to the majority of rural and urban poor against the loss of income during the pandemic.

India missed a chance to reform the Public Distribution System

3 min read . 13 Jan 2023

We did not manage to double the income of Indian farmers

1 min read . 29 Dec 2022

For most farmers, relevant growth rates of aggregate output are not the same as the growth rate of the whole farm sector.

Farming isn't doing as well as our GDP data suggests

4 min read . 16 Dec 2022

It appears counter-intuitive that inequality fell in a period when there is overwhelming evidence of a poverty rise.

Why inequality dipped when poverty worsened

4 min read . 02 Dec 2022

We must not be beguiled by our deceptively low inflation prints

3 min read . 20 Nov 2022

The last decade has seen countries suffering from unnecessary austerity measures amid tax breaks given to the corporate sector to boost growth, Photo: Mint

Fighting inflation not just RBI’s responsibility

4 min read . 04 Nov 2022

A tale of two indices in this age of economic contrasts

4 min read . 20 Oct 2022

Peculiar nature of Indian inflation calls for a fiscal response

3 min read . 23 Sep 2022

Inflation in food grain prices has been relatively stable over the past two decades. Photo: AP

The global threat to our food security

4 min read . 26 Aug 2022

Cooking gas stoves and gas cylinders have been provided free as part of the Ujjawala scheme. Some state governments have also provided laptops and smartphones.

Our problem is fiscal mismanagement and not freebies

4 min read . 16 Aug 2022

The worrying slowdown in India’s fight against poverty

3 min read . 01 Jul 2022

The difficulty of inflation control under our current circumstances

3 min read . 02 Jun 2022

The Food and Agriculture Organisation food index has been at its highest since the series began, driven by inflation in edible oil and cereals (Photo: AFP)

Frequent policy flip-flops are bad for farmers as well as consumers

3 min read . 19 May 2022

Statistics of poverty suffer from the country’s poverty of statistics

3 min read . 06 May 2022

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