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Media Coverage of the Study on 'Tax Incentives for Philanthropic Giving: A Study of Twelve Countries'
28 December 2021
1) A study pitches for reintroduction of wealth tax to address inequality The Economic Times The study carried out jointly by Ashoka University and think tank Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability (CBGA) has observed that absence of...
FTC issues Press Release on Pandora Papers
- 6 October 2021
Pandora Papers: new secretive tax havens are emerging, putting Covid-19 recovery at risk – warns Financial Transparency Coalition The Pandora Papers reveal a shadow financial system whereby the rich and powerful play by a different playbook from...
What’s in a Rename? Mid-Day Meal Plan Now Called PM Poshan with More Beneficiaries, Old Finance Structure
NEWS18.com
- 30 September 2021
The Mid-Day Meal Scheme has been renamed as ‘PM Poshan Shakti’ as the Centre pushes for child nutrition in the country, with the addition of around 24 lakh students from the pre-primary government and government-aided schools. The mid-day meal...
It’s 500 days since children went to school in India. Everything is opening. Why aren’t schools?
Scroll.in
- 9 August 2021
Over 250 million children enrolled in primary and secondary schools in India have not stepped into their classrooms since March 2020 when the coronavirus pandemic triggered an abrupt nationwide lockdown. Today marks 500 days of school...
Mandatory privatisation, result-based financing in education ministry, World Bank project
Careers 360
- 12 July 2021
The ministry of education has devised a system of funding school education reform that could set the sector back by decades, fear educationists. As part of the Strengthening Teaching-Learning and Results for States (STARS) project, participating...
What does Union Budget 2021-22 mean for students, farmers, migrants, health workers? Not much
Down To Earth
- 12 February 2021
The Union Budget 2021-22 had to bear a unique burden of expectations. The economy, which has been slowing down in the past years, is expected to shrink by 7.7 per cent in 2020-21, the sharpest decline since 1952. The novel coronavirus disease...
Dear Prime Minister, Why no pandemic package for education?
Education World
- 20 October 2020
The mega Rs.20.97 lakh crore Covid-19 economic aid package announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on May 12, provided tax breaks for small businesses, incentives for domestic manufacturing and free foodgrains for the poor. However, it totally...
Financial Transparency Coalition’s response to the FACTI Panel’s Interim Report
- 24 September 2020
Press Release The Financial Transparency Coalition (FTC) welcomes the Interim Report by the High-Level Panel on International Financial Accountability, Transparency and Integrity for Achieving the 2030 Agenda (FACTI Panel). We especially welcome...
Burden on children
Frontline
- 3 July 2020
When stringent lockdown measures were announced in March to contain the pandemic, children living on the streets of Delhi took shelter in parks, under flyovers, around railway stations, and in slums. Some were allowed to sleep indoors by their...
Schools: World Bank project in the works will increase privatisation
NEWS by CAREERS 360
- 21 June 2020
A new project, “Strengthening Teaching Learning and Results for States”, or STARS, is in the offing. In a departure from its usual practice of contributing to a scheme in general, World Bank will fund only certain activities under the Centre’s...