Two key issues of concern for the Sixteenth Finance Commission are highlighted. The declining progressivity in devolution is ...

The man’s age doesn’t matter. He can be very old or very young. The important thing is that he doesn’t know where he is, and ...

The heinous massacre of 28 individuals is one of the largest attacks targeting civilians in recent times as even amid the ...

Nothing is certain except death and taxes.”1 In India, there is no dispute on the mandate of the sovereign to raise taxes but much debate on whom to tax, what to tax, and the rates of taxation. It is ...

President Donald Trump initiated the process of withdrawing the country from the World Health Organization (WHO) for a second time. This policy move has deep ramifications for global health outcomes ...

Migration and Development in India: The Bihar Experience by Amrita Datta, Oxon and New York: Routledge, 2023; pp xviii + 220, price not indicated. The EPW produces independent and public-spirited ...

The Sixteenth Finance Commission wasThe Sixteenth Finance Commission was constituted by the President of India on 31December 2023. Currently, the award of the Fifteenth Finance Commission is ...

EPW consults referees from a database of 200+ academicians in different fields of the social sciences on papers that are published in the Special Article and Notes sections. Click here for summary ...

The finance commission plays a pivotal role in the allocation of resources between the union and state governments in India. In addition to the constitutionally mandated requirement to provide ...

Despite the expansion of the non-farm economy, high economic growth, and rapid urbanisation, the rural world and farmers continue to shape Indian society and politics as the ongoing farmers’ protests ...