Existing public sector processes are ill-suited to making software open and collaborating with the community. Institutions require dedicated capacity, resources and a mindset shift to meaningfully engage in open source.
The results revealed that nearly two-thirds of the respondents used UPI, and the most popular use of UPI was making payments at local shops and merchants.
New trade tensions once again highlight the risks of an unbalanced world economy, with some countries running habitual current account surpluses while others have structural deficits.
The shift from lower middle-income to upper-middle income status involves a major shift in the employment structure, or the reallocation of labour on a large scale.
Over 50% of the population is compelled to spend out-of-pocket for catastrophic health expenses despite government assistance to minimise the burden of health expenditure.
We need a fiscal council to offer independent estimates of the public debt trajectory if this measure is to act as the country’s new anchor of fiscal policy.
Neelanjan Sircar states that over 3 in 5 users used a social media news source other than traditional media, and nearly a quarter of users did not use traditional media at all for news.
Niranjan Rajadhyaksha advocates for a more balanced federal design across the three tiers of the Indian state and emphasises the need for significant tax reforms to improve India’s spending abilities in the coming decades.