Mainstream Weekly

Taxation and Disparities

V K R V RAO — 2013-01-03T13:55:16Z

The question is often asked: Is taxation in this country equitable? On the one hand national income has gone up, on the other economic disparities have widened. In this article, which is based on an exclusive interview to Mainstream, one of India's foremost economists gives expression to trenchant views on this vexed subject.
The fiscal policy of the Government of India in the last ten years has not been specifically oriented towards reduction in inequalities of income.
If we look at the (…)

- 2012

Nehru's Economic Philosophy

V K R V RAO — 2008-11-16T01:39:05Z

Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru is not only a great patriot and one of the great sons of India, but also a great son of the world who played a significant role in the achivement of freedom for the colonial countries in both Asia and Africa. Even before he became Prime Minister, when he was in the Interim Government, he arranged to convene the Asian Relations Conference in early 1947, where he brought together all the sovereign and non-sovereign nations of Asia, and helped to build up an Asian (…)

- November 15, 2008