Recommendations of the new state of inequality report do pose the challenge of implementation.
A recent report titled The State of Inequality in India by the Institute for Competitiveness, brought out in response to the request of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (EAC-PM), has made a few surprising recommendations. They include raising minimum income and providing universal basic income to reduce the growing income gap and the introduction of an urban version of the demand-based Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act to rehabilitate surplus labour.
The report also recommends increasing the share of expenditure allocated to […]
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