The lasting solution to poverty is not free rations but employment with a decent income. The poor need money to meet both the food and non-food demands of their families.
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The noted economist Surjit Bhalla’s argument that food subsidy has wiped out extreme poverty in India is highly erroneous. Bhalla, who arrived at this conclusion in a recent study done for the International Monetary Fund with two other economists, wants to make us believe that if only the stomachs of the poor are filled, poverty should […]
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