Budget 2023 Has Chilling Implications for India's People

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PERI’s Jayati Ghosh argues that the “Narendra Modi government has decided, in an election year, that general elections can be fought and won without efforts to improve the material conditions of the bulk of the people.” Instead, the new budget focuses on infrastructure investment, “which may have some positive fallout over the longer term, but in the short run will only generate profits (and kickbacks) for a very select few.”