The Politics & Economics of Budget 2024
The Talk
There was much speculation about how the Union Budget for 2024-25, the first of the third term of the coalition of the NDA government, would respond to the messages of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
How would the new NDA government respond to voters after the Lok Sabha elections?
How would they tackle unemployment?
How would they address state demands?
How would they tackle inequality?
Join us as Manthan invites Himanshu to unpack the many strands in the first budget of the NDA – III under Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Himanshu is an Associate Professor of Economics at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University. He is also a visiting fellow at Centre de Sciences Humaines, New Delhi. He has held visiting fellowships at the London School of Economics, UNU-WIDER (Finland) and GREQAM (France). His primary area of research is development economics, focusing on issues related to poverty, inequality, employment, rural development and agrarian change. He has been involved with various government committees, including the Expert Group on Measurement of Poverty (Tendulkar committee), the National Statistical Commission, the Reserve Bank of India, and the National Human Rights Commission.
