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India’s GDP Puzzle, Decoded: Formal–Informal Shifts, Volatile Deflators, and Smarter Metrics
India’s strong GDP prints often feel out of sync with daily experience. A simple two-sector lensformal jackets and informal juicesclarifies how Nominal versus Real GDP, base-year choices, and deflator arithmetic shape the headline number. Since 2011, lower inflation, rapid digitisation and formalisation, and shifting consumption patterns have strained older methods and proxies. As visibility of…
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Letter to IMF highlighting Pedophilia in Pakistan
In an attempt to highlight the issue of continuous, relentless and state supported violations of Human Rights of minorities in Pakistan centered around forced under-age marriages for the purpose of religious conversions, I have written a letter to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) director – Ms. Kristalina Georgieva. Here is a copy of the letter