Updated Feb 17, 2021 | 20:21 IST
India needs market-friendly, not business-friendly, reforms; consumer interests are equally important as business interests for reforms to succeed: CUTS International. Representational Image
India’s reform efforts cannot be left to the bureaucracy or economists alone. Instead, a whole of the ecosystem approach is required to plan and successfully implement measures aimed at enhancing competitiveness and inclusivity of growth,” said Pradeep Mehta, Secretary General, CUTS International. “The private sector and public institutions need to collaborate and converge in order to deliver on such an economic agenda,” he added.
He was moderating the second session of a series of webinars on “Improving India’s Competitiveness for Inclusive Economic Growth” organised by CUTS. He highlighted the importance of pragmatism in translating economic vision and ideas into actual ground realities.
Many of those familiar with the academic and political language of an earlier age may find one feature of the ongoing agitation in the neighbourhood of the national capital interesting: the easy replacement of the.
The data suggests that the endurance and determination of the protesting farmers in the areas that experienced the full thrust of the Green Revolution are backed by deep pockets — which may explain why tractors are being used with such recklessness.
In rejecting SC proposal to negotiate with panel, protesting farmers are displaying obduracy The protesting farmer unions have accused the Union government of stubbornness and advised the Centre to shed its ego but they would do well to heed their own advice. Sreemoy Talukdar January 14, 2021 09:22:08 IST Representational image of farmers protest. AP
There is no other way of saying it. The protesting farmers, picketing on the outskirts of the National Capital, are showing no signs that they are serious about reaching a solution to the stalemate over the agricultural reforms. Instead, they are displaying a Trumpian obduracy in refusing to negotiate beyond ‘my way or the highway’. With due respect to the real farmers among the protestors who are braving the elements and standing their ground to achieve their objectives, they are neither the sole custodia
Farmers protest is about politics, not economics , India s IMF executive director Surjit Bhalla tells CNN-News18 About the mandi system, the economist said that the government should be able to acquire food for the PDS system from the marketplace instead of the mandis FP Staff December 12, 2020 23:43:38 IST File photo of Surjit Bhalla.
As the protests against the new farm laws entered 17th day, economist and India s executive director at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Surjit Bhalla said on Saturday that only a small percentage of Indian farmers are against the new legislations.
He also caimed that the farmers agitation that entered 17th day on Saturday is not about economics, but politics .