You may sense that governments are not as competent as they once were. View Full Image Graphic: The Economist America, which has some of the best fiscal data, shows how one government became a Lumbering Leviathan. In the early 1950s we estimate that state spending on public services, including everything from paying teachers’ salaries to building hospitals, equalled 25% of …
The Federal Government's second COVID-19 economic rescue package will focus on supporting businesses and households that are likely to take a hit to their income in the coming months. The policy response should focus on supporting businesses that would otherwise retrench staff to put them on leave without pay, a better result for both business and workers. More than one …
Sometimes I wonder what the world would be like if men, not women, were bearing and delivering babies. Maternity benefits, of course, are reasonably generous for a small minority of Indian women employed in the formal sector and covered, in principle at least, under the Maternity Benefit Act. Under the National Food Security Act, 2013, all pregnant women are entitled …
