Vivek Dehejia, Resident Senior Fellow at IDFC Institute, is quoted in a Financial Times article on how Narendra Modi is trying to shore up his flagging support among farmers, before next year's election. Excerpts:
"It is the triumph of populism over good economics,â...
This World Economic Forum piece highlights the status of women's land rights across the developing world, and the benefits of women owning land. Excerpts below:
"Women account for nearly half of the developing world's farmers, yet they own far less land than men despite growing e...
Recent developments in Kharghar in Maharashtra display the unintended outcomes of a complex governance system for rural-urban and local-state governance authorities.
India has a three-tier governance system - central, state and local. If a settlement is governe...
