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From the blog of Barry Lynn at The Times of Israel

Western missionaries championed racial equality abroad while struggling with it in their own ranks.

The government’s plan to develop a stack of technologies for agriculture will be based on old and inaccurate land records, excluding many who need to access agricultural services and welfare schemes

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Bibek Debroy: Why we should move away from APMCs In other areas of economic policy-making, we are moving away from heavy-handed State intervention characterising the period from second-half of the 1960s to 1970s. Why not agriculture? Bibek Debroy December 18, 2020 / 10:33 AM IST Amritsar: A farmer ploughs his field with a tractor before planting paddy saplings in Amritsar, Thursday, June 13, 2019. Punjab government permitted paddy growers to trans...

Rebooting Economy 52: The unfinished agenda of land reforms nobody talks about Landless, marginal, and small farmers together constitute 93.7% of the total agricultural workforce in India. Can sustainable agricultural growth and farmers well-being be achieved without land reforms? Prasanna Mohanty | December 14, 2020 | Updated 14:02 IST It would hardly be an exaggeration to say that India needs land reform urgently to ensure peoples well-being and sustainable economic growth While farmers prot...