Author: centreforneweconomicstudies

This conversation is a part of Swabhimaan’s latest edition on Midnight Blue.

The U.S. retreat from Afghanistan is done and dusted. The rest of us are coming to terms with the fact that “Afghanistan is now the world’s problem”. Meanwhile, Washington has probed an investigation into “What went wrong in Afghanistan and whose fault was it?” and President Biden is held liable. This article, which is part-1…

The pre-pandemic level of inequality in income distribution and accessibility to resources have made the informally employed vulnerable to emergency situation, especially in countries with a high proportion of informal economy. With the Covid pandemic the income shock experienced by this segment of the society left them with no means for basic amenities and inadequate…

This article contains excerpts and key takeaways from our conversation with Mitali Nikore of Nikore Associates. In this episode of Inter-Linked, we discuss the issue of whether homemakers should be paid for domestic work. We discuss the nascent political developments and weave together the arguments posed by feminist academicians on the opposite ends of the…

On September 1st, 2021, the United States completely withdrew its forces from Afghanistan making way for the Taliban to come back to power after nearly twenty years. This is seen as a diplomatic victory of Pakistan as the previous democratically established government in Afghanistan was close to India. However, the rise of the Taliban may…