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Maitreesh Ghatak

Author is a professor of Economics at the London School of Economics.

With a huge informal economy, government should increase spending, not worry about deficit

Thu, Jan 23, 2020

To get the engine of the economy revving, an expansionary fiscal policy that harnesses the energy of the informal sector to boost aggregate demand is the order of the day.

The price of basic income

Fri, Jul 01, 2016

Providing basic income guarantee to all citizens makes a lot of sense intuitively. But the implementation cost in any country, including India, would be prohibitive.