Sanjeev Sanyal, an economist, author and part of the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council, has attacked Sweden’s Varieties of Democracy Institute, questioning the nation’s latest plan to cut migration. The Gothenburg-based V-Dem Institute in its 2024 report released in March had called India one of the “worst autocratisers" in the world in recent years. Am sure the supercomputer at @vdeminstitute …
India, which was downgraded to the status of an “electoral autocracy” in 2018, has declined even further on multiple metrics to emerge as “one of the worst autocratizers”, according to the ‘Democracy Report 2024’ released by the Gothenburg-based V-Dem Institute that tracks democratic freedoms worldwide. The level of democracy enjoyed by the “average person in the world is down to …
