Urvashi Agarwal

politics and policy

[Urvashi Agarwal @urvashiagwl]

Food processing industry has the highest employment generation per crore of investment. Exactly what the country needs right now, especially given the need to increase the PCI in gangu belt and its geographic constraints.

Though it should not be read the same way for pharma

[Urvashi Agarwal @urvashiagwl]

Sweden's own crime-prevention authority found that people with a foreign background accounted for 43% of homicide perpetrators despite being just 21% of the population. Anyways, this is hardly just Sweden's problem.

Also, the universal necessity to shield perpetrators' identities in such cases is just beyond me.

[Evelina Hahne @EvelinaHahne]

Yesterday in Sweden, a father tried to stop three men from groping his daughter at a fast-food restaurant.

They beat him to death.

As of now, the perpetrators’ ethnicity is being censored…

[William Meijer @williameijer]

https://t.co/KxmFC45w9Q

[Urvashi Agarwal @urvashiagwl]

While there is no doubt that women’s participation in higher education has increased, something important to look at is their limited presence in STEM. Only 33.3% of researchers globally are women, and women make up just 35% of students in STEM fields.

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

Globally, there were as many men and women in education in 2001, and now there are 1.1-times as many women in it.

[Urvashi Agarwal @urvashiagwl]

The flare-up of socialism was not limited to the 97.5% tax rates. Only 0.5–1% of tax units were taxable b/w the 1920s & 1980s, leaving India with high rates but a narrow tax base, one of the major factor behind CG'S FD rising from 4.1% of GDP in 1975–76 to 8.4% in 1990–91.

[Shivam Singh @singhshivam3011]

TIL at one point of time india had 97.5% marginal tax rate. it was brought by indira gandhi. india’s 97.5% marginal tax rate in 1973–74 failed to boost revenues and instead encouraged tax avoidance, evasion and capital flight.

[Urvashi Agarwal @urvashiagwl]

@Zoomerjeet always associated it with countries with low economic development.

[Urvashi Agarwal @urvashiagwl]

TIL that the term “Third World Country” was originally used to describe countries that were essentially aligned with neither the US nor the Soviet Union.

[Urvashi Agarwal @urvashiagwl]

Japan’s “hometown tax” lets taxpayers redirect part of their income tax to municipalities of their choice. India could adapt this for hill states or rural municipalities facing out-migration. Let taxpayers direct a small share of their tax to their hometowns or rural districts.

[Urvashi Agarwal @urvashiagwl]

https://t.co/1xOtyr0r4q

[Urvashi Agarwal @urvashiagwl]

Read a friend’s Substack on Rahul Gandhi’s Chhatron Ki Goonj programme in Pune. The issue isn’t him using Manusmriti. Hinduism isn’t tied to one book. The problem is using a secular platform to target a text from the Hindu tradition. Interesting piece, give it a read

[Urvashi Agarwal @urvashiagwl]

Coming from a law background and regularly reading research papers published by Indian universities and academia, I can say that this idea of putting “equity before truth” has created a growing trust deficit, at least for me.

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

This is really sad:

When psychology professors are asked whether they'd put the truth before social equity concerns, 66.4% of male professors said yes, but fewer than half of female professors (43%) agreed.

In both groups, too many put equity before truth.

[Urvashi Agarwal @urvashiagwl]

CUET’s viability can only be optimised if, instead of allowing individual colleges to switch to Class 12 marks, DU publishes all remaining seats course-college wise and lets every CUET-qualified student re-rank their preferred vacant college-course combinations

[Urvashi Agarwal @urvashiagwl]

After Australia, now New Zealand is doing it too. Both democracies, btw. If India even tried this, we’d be called authoritarian and a new CJP would probably be born to defend the “rights” of 8 year-olds.

[Urvashi Agarwal @urvashiagwl]

It is interesting how Deng responded to the continuous protests in China after Mao’s death demanding democracy.

Most interestingly, he stated that “socialism cannot be defended or built up without dictatorship.”

[Urvashi Agarwal @urvashiagwl]

its so sad to see this brainrot analysis

debt was just a tool, a lot of other countries have taken one and gone down the hill, sovereign debt crisis of greece is not very old

actually eye-watering is to credit china's growth to debt over its execution efficiency

[Michael A. Arouet @MichaelAArouet]

The debt level in China is eye-watering.

What if China's rise is just the biggest debt experiment ever? Can the debt binge continue forever?

[Urvashi Agarwal @urvashiagwl]

@TheWand68425335 imo it should just transform into something like nasa and fund/run unprofitable projects that are still important but cant be hived off to private sector

any extra role for this org is just white-collar MNREGA

[Anuj Gupta @anujg]

The Garbage In - Garbage Out of Academic Research on India https://t.co/MWwbLHsFCU

Analyzing the Promise of the "Promises, Promises" paper.

[Urvashi Agarwal @urvashiagwl]

21st century women**

[Urvashi Agarwal @urvashiagwl]

yes

only ones who endorse open defecation for their women should be taken seriously

thats what 21st century seek from their glorious trad men

[Rabinarayan Swain @KritaNishchayah]

Anyone whose write up gets endorsed by instath0ts must not be taken seriously.

[Urvashi Agarwal @urvashiagwl]

this should be the unofficial state policy now, we tried bowing down to american pressure but if that doesnt work out, we cant let them armtwist us constantly

FCRA should be the final dent if ppl are willing to listen

[FT India News @ftindianews]

India’s reliance on Russian oil hits all-time high https://t.co/Xi7oTWo5kv