Money

Money is any item or verifiable record that is generally accepted as payment for goods and services and repayment of debts, such as taxes, in a particular country or socio-economic context. The main functions of money are distinguished as: a medium of exchange, a unit of account, a store of value and sometimes, a standard of deferred payment. Any item or verifiable record that fulfils these functions can be considered as money. Money is historically an emergent market phenomenon establishing a commodity money, but nearly all contemporary money systems are based on fiat money. Fiat money, like any check or …

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PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 29 July 2024 English

This report is written by Suhas Chakma of Indigenous Peoples Law & Policy Program (IPLP), University of Arizona. Published in July 2024, the report examines the conflict between tiger conservation …

connivance with property dealers duped them of the money they received for relocation. These tribals were compensate the displaced families with land and money, and ensure basic civic amenities in their new settlement sanitation facilities. They did not even receive the money to build their huts at once, but in installments


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 7 June 2024 English

The National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) has conducted Household Consumption Expenditure surveys (HCES) regularly since its inception in 1950. Data on household consumption was collected annually from 1950–51 to 1973-74. …

gambling including lottery tickets are also excluded. Money given as remittance, charity, gift, etc. is also


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 18 March 2024 English

The working paper highlights how inequality in India declined in the period after independence until the 1980s, after which it started rising again. The paper compares the wealth and income …

the move was supposedly aimed at fighting “black money” (unaccounted incomes) stored as currency notes either that the government’s claims about black money in the form of large currency notes were entirely entirely misplaced or that this erstwhile black money was effectively legalized (without having to pay appropriate


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 2 March 2024 English

Sakuni and Geeta Devi collect sal leaves from the Hehegara forest which they make into bowls and plates to sell in Daltonganj. The two neighbours and friends have been travelling …


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 23 February 2024 English

Krishnagiri, Tamil Nadu. Young Dalit boys, all close friends, had signed up to work here hoping to earn money to pay off family loans, fill college fees and take care of other important expenses at home

friends, had signed up to work here hoping to earn money to pay off family loans, fill college fees and take


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 6 February 2024 English

Kuno is now a hunting ground for green political optics. Money and state influence are powering a cheetah safari in the guise of a conservation project. For the hundreds of displaced people who vacated

now a hunting ground for green political optics. Money and state influence are powering a cheetah safari


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 January 2024 English

Becoming a Young Farmer with the subtitle Young People’s Pathways into Farming: Canada, China, India and Indonesia is a collection of research papers published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2024 and …

non- farming children fairly while leaving enough money for the farm to remain viable for future generations


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 January 2024 English

Since the year 2020, the five richest men in the world have doubled their fortunes. During the same period, almost five billion people have become poorer. Published by Oxfam International, …

Pharma, Big Tech, big everything 28 2.4 Monopoly money 31 2.5 Learning lessons from the past 31 2.6 From workers are trapped in debt and have to borrow money to meet basic needs like food, medicine and transport nations, often for more money than the garment workers are paid in a month. This money does not go to them them billionaires. These billionaires have more money than a garment worker could earn in a thousand basic services as asset classes and using public money to guarantee FIGURE ES: RICH PEOPLE IN THE GLOBAL


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 9 December 2023 English

Children of landless Dalits in Khunde Halal spend their holidays working as agricultural labour. The money they earn helps with household and other expenses like smart phones needed for exams

their holidays working as agricultural labour. The money they earn helps with household and other expenses


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 December 2023 English

The three-volume report Crime in India 2022 was published by the National Crime Records Bureau, an agency under the Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India, in December 2022. This …

23.7 Students 233 0.0 333 0.0 210 0.0 0.0 23.8 Money Dispute 1032 0.1 795 0.1 637 0.0 0.0 23.9 Water


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