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Poverty estimates the new weapons in India’s statistics war. But confusion began decades ago

At one point, India was the leading developing country that created a statistical system to monitor living standards. But today, there is rank...

Sanjay G. Reddy

The 1949 revolution raised the education of the Chinese population, but the Indian labour force remains deeply under-educated. It's one factor why...

Any government would increase the emphasis on social welfare schemes. The votes lie disproportionately in rural areas but the income is...