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EPW consults referees from a database of 200+ academicians in different fields of the social sciences on papers that are ...

EPW consults referees from a database of 200+ academicians in different fields of the social sciences on papers that are ...

The Jharkhand Mukti Morcha-led coalition has emerged victorious in the recent Jharkhand assembly elections, indicating that public memory against perceived assaults upon protective legislation is ...

In the context of a recent incident of a young chartered accountant succumbing to work pressure and the ongoing debate on weekly working hours for India’s workforce, this article discusses the ...

Classifying ecosystem services under five groups, the issues raised by ecological economists on sustainable scale, use of marginal analysis, and distributional equity are considered. The need for ...

The Industrial Relations Code of 2020 represents a transformative shift in India’s industrial dispute resolution system, consolidating labour courts and industrial tribunals into a single entity ...

India’s solar irrigation programme is going seriously astray. Off-grid solar pumps waste two-thirds of the energy they generate. Maharashtra’s solar agricultural feeders avoid energy waste but ...

Welfare schemes cannot be subsidised by the exploitation of front-line workers. Accredited social health activists (ASHAs) in Kerala have been on strike at the state’s capital over the last one month ...

This paper is a first attempt to track the inflation rates of the distribution of Indian households based on consumption weights of different fractiles of rural and urban households from 2015 to 2023.

This article examines the relationship between economic growth and income inequality in India. Empirical findings seriously challenge some popular prevailing notions that higher inequality has been an ...

A crucial gap in current research is addressed by exploring the potential of digital supply chain financing—specifically factoring and reverse factoring—to alleviate challenges faced by SMEs, ...