After the enactment of fiscal responsibility legislations at the state level, successive finance commissions have provided incentives to states in the form of grants or additional borrowing power to ...

President Donald Trump initiated the process of withdrawing the country from the World Health Organization (WHO) for a second time. This policy move has deep ramifications for global health outcomes ...

The man’s age doesn’t matter. He can be very old or very young. The important thing is that he doesn’t know where he is, and ...

The heinous massacre of 28 individuals is one of the largest attacks targeting civilians in recent times as even amid the ...

Nothing is certain except death and taxes.”1 In India, there is no dispute on the mandate of the sovereign to raise taxes but much debate on whom to tax, what to tax, and the rates of taxation. It is ...

The Sixteenth Finance Commission wasThe Sixteenth Finance Commission was constituted by the President of India on 31December 2023. Currently, the award of the Fifteenth Finance Commission is ...

Fiscal federalism has been evolving and has created uneven challenges across the states. Kerala has been facing the dual challenge of inadequate resource mobilisation through its own sources of ...

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Migration and Development in India: The Bihar Experience by Amrita Datta, Oxon and New York: Routledge, 2023; pp xviii + 220, price not indicated. The EPW produces independent and public-spirited ...