Governments all over the world resort to spin to present themselves in the best possible light. The boundary between gloss and outright lies can often be blurred. Statistical information is […]
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DeMonetisation did not promote the uptake of digital transactions Driving India towards a less-cash, digital payments economy was one of the aims claimed by the Prime Minister when he invalidated
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A year on the Prime Minister’s Great Idea may have turned out to be a dud Mao ZeDong’s Great Leap Forward [1] has to be the most outstanding example of
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Many of the problems and issues in India – witness the political debate and the controversies that are so rife on twitter and other social media – are to do
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Apologists for Prime Minister Modi’s Demonetisation policy are now claiming it led to a big rise in direct tax revenues for Financial Year (FY) 2016-17. See, for instance this from
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