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Month: May 2019
India’s Fiscal Policy Framework and Its Implications for Water and Sanitation
Subrat Das
After independence, a quasi-federal Constitution was adopted in India with centralizing tendencies; the Constitution provides for a division of responsibilities between the Union (or Centre) and...
Budget Data Portals: An Effort towards providing Open Government Data (OGD) in Public Domain
Shuchita Rawal
What is open data? As defined by opendefition.org, “Open data and content can be freely used, modified, and shared by anyone for any purpose”. Open data has been talked about a lot in the recent...
Financing War: Who Pays and Who Benefits?
Mampi Bose
The ghastly terror attack in Pulwama, J&K, on February 14, 2019 in which 44 CRPF personnel were killed, had brought India and Pakistan almost to the brink of yet another war. Although, in the...
The case for introducing 35% and 40% Rates for Personal Income Tax
Suraj Jaiswal
The modern taxation system is based on the principles of two equities – Horizontal Equity and Vertical Equity. Horizontal equity means people with same income/wealth should pay same tax; while...
Assam’s efforts in reforming Child Budgeting
Simonti Chakraborty
The experience of working alongside a state government at the time of budget preparations is truly a unique one. While we, as a civil society organisation, are more familiar with the flurry of post...
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