Jean Dreze

Kavita Krishnan of CPIML liberation, economist Jean Dreze, Maimoona Mollah of AIDWA and others at press conference Press Club in New Delhi

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Jean Dreze

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Surjit Bhalla vs Jean Dreze The clash of ideas over our biggest public employment programme NREGA continues. Economist Bhalla asked the government to “junk corrupt schemes lik...

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Jigsaws That Don’t Fit The scene at India Habitat Centre on July 22—Justice Leila Seth releasing Amartya Sen and Jean Dreze's An Uncertain Glory: India and its Contradictio...

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Bihar Will Take Worst Hit Due To Reverse Migration: Jean Dreze

Indian Economist Jean Dreze, in an interview with Outlook, says that because of the Coronavirus lockdown, there won’t be any employment under MNREGA now and Bihar will be the worst-hit.

Apr 01, 2020

| Preetha Nair
Press Club Of India Stops Civil Rights Activists From Showing Videos Of Unrest In Kashmir

The activists were allowed to address the Press and narrate their experience during their five-day stay in the Kashmir valley but asked not to display any photographs or play videos

Aug 14, 2019

| Puneet Nicholas Yadav
Economist Jean Dreze, Two Others, Let Off After Being Detained Briefly By Jharkhand Police

Economist and activist Jean Dreze and two others were on Thursday detained by Jharkhand police for organising a meeting on Right to Food "without permission".

Mar 28, 2019

| Outlook Web Bureau
Amartya Sen: India Has Taken A Quantum Jump In The Wrong Direction After 2014

The government has also deflected from issues of inequalities, the caste system and the schedules tribes have been kept out, said Sen.

Jul 08, 2018

| Outlook Web Bureau
Amartya Sen: India Has Taken A Quantum Jump In The Wrong Direction After 2014

The government has also deflected from issues of inequalities, the caste system and the schedules tribes have been kept out, said Sen.

Jul 08, 2018

| Outlook Web Bureau
Economist Jean Dreze Forced To Cut Short Speech On 'Growing Communalism' After Furore By Jharkhand Leader

Dreze was speaking at an event organised by a Hindi daily, where he commented on the functioning of saffron organisations like Rashtriya Swayansewak Sangh (RSS).

Aug 15, 2017

| Outlook Web Bureau
Activists, Scholars Appeal To 'Restore Rule Of Law' In Bastar

They have sought unrestricted access to the area, without interference, to all those concerned with human rights violations.

Jan 31, 2017

| Outlook Web Bureau
“Be Less Worried About Raising Growth”

Kislaya interviews economist Jean Dreze on the Narendra Modi government’s performance vis-à-vis the economy.

Dec 14, 2015

| Kislaya
'The New Government Is Not Committed To The NREGA'

28 leading economists write to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to 'express deep concern about the future of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA)'

Oct 14, 2014

| Jean Dreze Pranab Bardhan et al
'Sentence Us To The Same Punishment...'

'... as pronounced against the Mid Day journalists,' say 30 eminent citizens. "We publicly reiterate whatever has been written by Mid Day and whatever has been said and written by Campaign for Judicial Accountability."

Sep 25, 2007

| Jean Dreze Others Arvind Kejriwal Aruna Roy Rajendra Singh Ramaswamy R. Iyer

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Hunger Games

India’s social security system needs strenghtening

Jan 08, 2020

| Jean Dreze
Stand Up For Jean Dreze & Co

In the face of the staggering xenophobic anti-intellectualism that is relentlessly coursing through the veins of the hinterland following the arrival of Narendra Modi

Mar 31, 2016

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Thought For Food

Even the worst-governed states can improve their PDS and ensure grain for the poorest. Look at Madhya Pradesh.

Aug 31, 2015

| Jean Dreze Reetika Khera
Delhi Diary

I don’t know about you, but travelling on a bullet train at 320 km per hour is not my top priority...

Jul 21, 2014

| Vinod Mehta
Water For The Leeward India

As subsidies for the poor continue to be under attack, a ground-up report from 10-states shows how well welfare schemes have worked over the last 10 years.

Mar 24, 2014

| Jean Dreze Reetika Khera
Putting Growth In Its Place

It has to be but a means to development, not an end in itself

Nov 14, 2011

| Jean Dreze Amartya Sen
A Grain Of Good Sense

Legislating against hunger is a great idea that needs expansion

Jul 20, 2009

| Jean Dreze
Jean Dreze

His incisive work on hunger, child malnutrition and other issues has brought the Other India into intellectual and policy focus

Apr 23, 2007

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A Woman's Sight

Sen is praised as a "feminist economist" but it is not very clear what "feminist" actually stands for (except for a general concern with gender issues) and why Sen qualifies

Jun 19, 2006

| Jean Dreze
'Our Democratic Process Is Far From Participatory, It Is Elitist'

The internationally renowned development economist offers several disclaimers to the many changes we've been gung-ho about in the last 10 years

Oct 17, 2005

| Sugata Srinivasaraju