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Why do our farmers and farm labour get the lowest wage rates?

Amir Ullah Khan and Anjana Divakar  |  02-03-2021

India’s economy has been among the fastest growing economies in the world, at least till 2016 and, one of its major contributors has been the agriculture sector. Agriculture remains the largest employer, employing around 150 milli...

A coercive population policy will destroy India’s demographics

Amir Ullah Khan and Nahia Hussain  |  20-02-2021

S Y Quraishi has been India’s top bureaucrat. A former Chief Election Commissioner, he headed the Union Health Ministry and has written an incisive and well-researched book on the Population myth and why Muslims are being targeted...

Contact Tracing in India: Lessons Learned and Way Forward

Amir Ullah Khan and Netheena Mathews  |  11-02-2021

On January 30, 2020, India reported its first COVID-19 case – a medical student in Kerala who had been evacuated from Wuhan. Exactly a year later, the country has recorded more than 1.5 lakh deaths and 1.07 crore po...

The Union budget 2021 – Flattering to deceive

Amir Ullah Khan  |  11-02-2021

The Union budget is an Annual Financial Statement where the government of the day is expected to inform the Parliament of what it would spend its money on during the next year. This must be done diligently and responsibly, as with any f...

EWS for all

Amir Ullah Khan and Nahia Hussain  |  30-01-2021

In January of 2019, with a sudden move, that is by now characteristic of the Modi government’s policy making strategy, a 10 per cent reservation was announced. It was for everyone, who could prove they are poor. A reservation...

Unemployment scenario could get worse in 2021

Amir Ullah Khan and Nahia Hussain  |  06-01-2021

The year 2020 has been about containing the outbreak of COVID-19 with governments across the world dedicating the maximum proportion of their resources and time for the same. The Indian landscape was no different with the pandemic dicta...

Disasters, Displacement and Citizenship Rights —The Lingering Fears

Amir Ullah Khan and Riaz F Shaikh  |  29-12-2020

The Citizenship issue becomes even more critical for those who live in areas that see frequent floods and earthquakes. The population that somehow survives here has many additional problems that people living in plains do not need to wo...

CAA's Negative Impact on Economic Citizenship

Amir Ullah Khan and Riaz F Shaikh  |  09-12-2020

Citizenship has a noticeably clear economic perspective. People migrate to countries that have economic opportunities. These immigrants bring to their adopted new countries new skills, passion and expertise. Of the three factors of prod...

The spectre of Love Jihad

Amir Ullah Khan and Nahia Hussain  |  01-12-2020

Anti-conversion laws are seen across several countries such as Sri Lanka and Algeria and are not limited to a pluralist India. Laws to check religious conversions are not new even in India. Odisha, Madhya Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh...

Researchers at the Centre for Development Policy and Practice

Amir Ullah Khan and Riaz F Shaikh  |  26-11-2020

World over, the focus has been on migrants for the past few years. The outgoing President of the US made migration the cornerstone of his successful Presidential campaign in 2016. He did the same this year but failed to get re-elected b...