Gender, nutrition, public health, social policy | #LSR #JNU #SOAS
Jan 31, 2020 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
#Thalinomics calculates food prices as a % of income of workers in organised manufacturing to claim that food has become more affordable - less than 5% of all workers in India are in organised manufacturing, which is one of rare sectors where wages have been rising (1/n)
what is really shocking is even for organised sector workers more than 50% of income needed to consume thali that meets dietary requirements as per #EconomicSurvey2020 - imagine how impossible it is for more than 80% earning much lower wages to achieve adequate diets (2/n)