Global gender gap report 2023
The Global Gender Gap Index annually benchmarks the current state and evolution of gender parity across four key dimensions (Economic Participation and Opportunity, Educational Attainment, Health and Survival,
Politics
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Left in the lurch: The demise of the worlds longest elected regime?
Losses by the long ruling Left Front in a series of local and national elections since 2008 cannot be explained without an understanding of the nature of
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A scrutiny of the MP-LADS in India: Who is it for?
This paper attempts to analyse the pattern and determinants of fund utilisation under the Members of Parliament-Local Area Development Scheme by the Lok Sabha mps. It indicates that there are political business cycles in spending by mps.
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Conditional cash transfer programs and their electoral effects
<p>How does the population of inegalitarian countries react to their governments’ initiatives to fight poverty and reduce inequality? Numerous studies published recently assume that the level of income inequality determines the level of popular support for redistribution.
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Bangladesh water concern
Concerns about food security and apprehensions of future water scarcity are common to all the countries in the world. This paper focuses on the water issue between India and Bangladesh. Crisscrossed by
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Value, enchantment, and the mentality of democracy: Some distant perspectives from Gandhi
This essay integrates metaphysics, science, politics, political economy, and moral philosophy in order to explore the ways in which some Gandhian ideas, when given a genealogical reading in the dissenting thought of Early Modernity in Europe, might provide a deep basis for (a) diagnosing the religiosity of our own time, (b) making our secular ideals grounded in a more democratic mentality and cult
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Lokayukta sore over inaction on mining report
Bangalore: The 1,600-page Lokayukta report on mining in Karnataka
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Linking of rivers dropped
The government on Wednesday told Parliament that it has dropped the plan to interlink the country's Himalayan and peninsular rivers saying that it entails an expenditure of Rs 4.4 lakh crores, which the government would not be able to afford.
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Maoists in West Bengal: Terror and political degeneration
There is a clear alliance between the party of right reaction in West Bengal, the Trinamool Congress, and the Maoists as they try out a cynical strategy of violence to defeat the state
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Climate change and democratization: a complex relationship
The paper examines whether democracy at the country level and global climate change matter for another. It raises the question of how to support democracy
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CPM using NREGS for political gains
PALAKKAD: The CPM has been using the centrally sponsored National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) for political gains by engaging in a campaign that it was a State Government scheme, said KPCC spokesperson M M Hassan.