Strangulating the Informal Economy*

Oct 12th 2017, Prabhat Patnaik
The current slowdown in the economy, aggravated by the persistent world economic crisis, has much to do with the twin coercive instruments of demonetisation and GST wielded by the state to strangulate the informal economy in a bid to "formalise" it.

* This article was originally published in the Frontline Print edition: October 27, 2017.


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