Unequal Work: Explaining the Recent Increase in Female Workers in Rural India
There is an unusual change that is taking place in [...]
There is an unusual change that is taking place in [...]
The announcement on September 8, 2021 of the Minimum Support [...]
A recent field note, titled "Harvesting misery," prepared by Gaurav Bansal and Soham Bhattacharya, was published in the May 22, 2020, issue of the Frontline magazine.
Professor Philip Alston, the current United Nations Special Rapporteur on poverty and human rights, has recently reported on conditions of extreme poverty and denial of human rights in the United Kingdom (Alston 2018). The report highlights such conditions with special reference to the effects of ongoing austerity measures.
Land reform is an essential condition for removing the burden of absolute ground rent and set free the forces of production in agriculture in a rural society of a developing economy. Agricultural tenancy reform is an important component of land reform, where the state ensures security of tenure and maintains regulation of rent in particular in order to protect rights to cultivation of tenant farmers.