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Shruti Ambast
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What’s the difference between ‘freebies’ for the poor and ‘business incentives’ for the rich?
The real question is is whether a policy is good or bad for development outcomes and fulfilment of human rights.
Protiva Kundu, Shruti Ambast & Gurpreet Singh
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Nirbhaya Fund could help improve women’s safety – but money allotted for schemes is underutilised
The government’s current spending on specific interventions that address violence against women is not even 25% of the actual requirement.
Shruti Ambast & Drishti Rastogi
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India will grossly fail its children if it revokes the no-detention policy
Attributing the fall in learning outcomes to the no-detention policy puts the blame on children even though it is schools and governments that have failed them.
Shruti Ambast
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