After the enactment of fiscal responsibility legislations at the state level, successive finance commissions have provided incentives to states in the form of grants or additional borrowing power to ...

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 ...

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 article examines the new tax regime and the changes announced in the union budget 25-26 and its potential impact. The new regime is a declining tax rate regime. However, the relief to the ...

Fiscal federalism has been evolving and has created uneven challenges across the states. Kerala has been facing the dual challenge of inadequate resource mobilisation through its own sources of ...

Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization is set to have far-reaching impacts on global health. With the global health agenda expanding in scope, member ...

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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 ...

Two key issues of concern for the Sixteenth Finance Commission are highlighted. The declining progressivity in devolution is evidenced by the downward trend in the share of lower-income states in the ...