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The Nonsensical GDP Debates

I have followed with a lot of interest and now amusement the hysterical debates on television and social media platforms after Mr Subhash Chandra Garg, former finance secretary, pointed out in a television debate that...

Bad Data and Policy Making

Policies are only as good as the statistics used for arriving at the decisions – and the Indian government has been found wanting in that respect. For a government that is extremely fond of repeating that Data is the...