BUSINESS
G20 Summit: Five charts that show how India got half a billion people into the banking system
In eight years, India opened over 462 million new bank accounts for the poor. That’s more than the entire population of the United States, France and UK put together. By any yardstick, this is an astonishing number for anyone interested in global financial inclusion
BUSINESS
Four reasons why Ashoka University researcher’s claims about electoral manipulation in 2019 polls are misleading
The research paper’s claims don’t factor in the emphatic nature of BJP’s 2019 win that broke many normal rules of politics, can’t explain BJP performance in non-BJP ruled states, doesn’t factor in the BJP’s superior campaign, nor does it offer any evidence from the grassroots on systemic fraud
