Two key issues of concern for the Sixteenth Finance Commission are highlighted. The declining progressivity in devolution is ...

The man’s age doesn’t matter. He can be very old or very young. The important thing is that he doesn’t know where he is, and ...

The heinous massacre of 28 individuals is one of the largest attacks targeting civilians in recent times as even amid the ...

Nothing is certain except death and taxes.”1 In India, there is no dispute on the mandate of the sovereign to raise taxes but much debate on whom to tax, what to tax, and the rates of taxation. It is ...

The Sixteenth Finance Commission wasThe Sixteenth Finance Commission was constituted by the President of India on 31December 2023. Currently, the award of the Fifteenth Finance Commission is ...

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 published in the Special Article and Notes sections. Click here for summary ...

Migration and Development in India: The Bihar Experience by Amrita Datta, Oxon and New York: Routledge, 2023; pp xviii + 220, price not indicated. The EPW produces independent and public-spirited ...

Though the nature of fiscal stress has changed in the last 20 years, the state’s fiscal condition has been worsening, with the fiscal deficit, revenue deficit, and debt-to-gross domestic product (GDP) ...

The finance commission plays a pivotal role in the allocation of resources between the union and state governments in India. In addition to the constitutionally mandated requirement to provide ...

The World Economic OutlookThe World Economic Outlook of April 2025, a flagship publication of the International Monetary Fund, provides us with one of the first reports on the impact of the tariff ...