Budget making in India: pro-poor or politically expedient?
Budget making in India: pro-poor or politically expedient?
Budget making in India: pro-poor or politically expedient?
As India prepares its annual budgets, much concern is expressed about meeting the needs of the poor. Economic policies are routinely justified by professions of their pro- poorness. Is this preoccupation with poverty genuine or self-serving? How is poverty conceptualised? How could the budget process become more transparent and democratic?

