Fake news and the misuse of official statistics
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 …
DeMonetisation and Digital Payments
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 …
India’s Great Leap Forward
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 …
Citizens or Subjects
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 …
Misusing Statistics
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 …