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Did MNREGA Cushion Job Losses During the COVID-19 Crisis? Analysis suggests that districts that have historically exhibited high state capacity to utilise MNREGA funds have been better able to use the additional funds for employment recovery last year – especially for women. Women at a MNREGA work site. Photo: UN Women Asia and Pacific/Flickr CC BY NC ND 2.0 Rights11/Feb/2021 Data from the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE)’s Consumer Pyramids Household Survey (CPHS) show that employment fell precipitously during the nationwide COVID-19 lockdown, especially in April and May...

In a small group of people, greater wealth than the bottom half of humanity? if everybody else is making money more than they did last year and more than inflation, what's your long-term worry bay world that's going in this direction? >> well, there are two big, big problems. one problem is we lose democracy because with great wealth amassed at the top comes great political power and that political power -- basically, nobody else has heard and a lot of political scientists have already measured this already. and we can see we're losing democracy because big money is taking over. the second pro...

Greater wealth than the bottom half of humanity? if everybody else is making money more than they did last year and more than inflation, what's your long-term worry bay world that's going in this direction? >> well, there are two big, big problems. one problem is we lose democracy because with great wealth amassed at the top comes great political power and that political power -- basically, nobody else has heard and a lot of political scientists have already measured this already. and we can see we're losing democracy because big money is taking over. the second problem is that you don't have ...

They have a different tariff structure that is worse than ours. we have accepted their crushing labor market which gives us cheaper goods. anthony, you know this. you actually talked to me about this once. it means people are buying up a lot of stuff from this other place. that is good because you are getting goods into your country and it's goods they want. >> i understand that. here is the purpose. let me explain this quickly. if china is the saudi arabia. if saudi is crude oil, khaochin manufacturing. so the conversation between these two leaders has to be help me help american workers, mid...

>> i think the big message here is an america first strategy doesn't contradict a long-term global strategy and an integration into the global system. i think that's the biggest challenge that the media is having with the president. at the end of the day, what the president stands for is helping middle class families and lower middle class families have more disposable income, which is greater aggregate demand and purchasing power for the global marketplace. >> reporter: whatcontext? davos is about interaction and trade. >> here's what the president is going to say, since the second world war,...