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By Varsha S Kulkarni & Raghav Gaiha Apprehensions based on averages are often misleading. A case in point is the apprehension that poverty has risen during the first term of the Narendra Modi administration, based largely on reduction in average percapita expenditure. Other contributory factors cited, but not examined, are deceleration of wage rate growth, decline in farm prices and a sharp rise in unemployment. Ironically, the overemphasis on reduction in average per-capita expenditure as a key explanatory variable for the alleged significant rise in poverty rests on a slowdown of growth. There is an alternative explanation to be sought if one focuses on the roles of per-capita expenditure and Thomas Piketty’s measure of income inequality as explored in his 2013 book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century. More recently, Lucas Chancel and Piketty, in their 2017 paper, ‘Indian Income Inequality, 1922-2015: From British Raj to Billionaire Raj?’ (bit.do/fpHwz), … [Read more...] about View: It’s time to scrutinise the link between poverty and income inequality

He said that the Vice Chancellor's initiative was part of an ongoing outreach programme to persuade the protesting students in different faculties to start attending classes "even while continuing with their peaceful protest against what they feel is unjust legislation". … [Read more...] about Action Sought against AMU Dean for ‘Threatening’ Students over Anti-CAA Protests

 Chinmoy Biswal, DCP (South East) said that around 3 p.m. a mob vandalised vehicles and committed arson on Mathura Road. Police chased the mob and some of them fled towards JMI campus and resorted to stone pelting. Police followed them to remove them from the campus. The university is not a closed campus as it is located on both sides of the road. … [Read more...] about Anti-Citizenship Act protests: violence hits Delhi, over 50 injured

Police "chased away" the women and youth who had descended on the Varanasi's Baniabagh ground on Thursday in protest against the CAA amid reports of similar demonstrations from Rae Bareli and Azamgarh. Meanwhile, the women's protest against the legislation continued at the historic Clock Tower in Lucknow. According to video clips, policemen rushed to the Baniabagh ground in large numbers, "chased away" protesters and got the site vacated. In Mubarakpur town of Azamgarh, women belonging to different faiths protested under the banner of the Samvidhan Bachao Sangharsh Samiti at the Hyderabad Kapoora Shah Divan ki Bagia locality on Wednesday. In the Town Hall area of Rae Bareli, a large number of women started their demonstration against the CAA on Wednesday afternoon. They raised slogans against the legislation and demanded its immediate withdrawal. "The administration is fully alert and monitoring the situation," a senior official said. In Lucknow, women along with children continued … [Read more...] about Anti-CAA protesters ‘chased away’ in Varanasi; demonstrations in Rae Bareli, Azamgarh

More than 40 world leaders arrived in Jerusalem for the World Holocaust Forum, including Russian President Vladimir Putin, French President Emmanuel Macron, British Prince Charles and U.S. Vice President Mike Pence. … [Read more...] about Israeli president calls anti-Semitism “malignant disease”