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Here is your weekly recap of IndiaSpend and FactChecker stories.
This week was the launch of our new Women At Work series, which will explore, over the next four months, how India's women are engaging with the labour force, post the Covid-19 pandemic. This is the third such series, the first of which explored why women were falling off India's labour map, and the second documenting the impact of Covid-19 on women in the workforce. The first part of Women at Work 3.0, by Namita Bhandare, is out, and looks at the latest data which show an increase in women's labour force participation, and why that might not be a good thing.
Further, the government needs to play a greater role not just in providing government jobs, but in creating the environment that motivates the private sector to invest, which can create jobs for far greater people than the government alone. Understand more such insights, in this interview of Mahesh Vyas, managing director at the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE), by IndiaSpend founder-editor Govindraj Ethiraj. | | | For our environment section, Flavia Lopes explained why DNA that gives every living being its genetic characteristics is also important to biodiversity conservation. The point of contention is digital sequence information (DSI), which is genetic data stored on computers. Developed countries have used this to develop Covid-19 vaccines as well as the Ebola vaccine but the benefits of this development haven't widely reached developing countries that were the source of the DSI. Developing countries are trying to correct this in the new Global Biodiversity Framework by asking developed countries for the rights to access to genetic resources and of its benefits for countries and communities that provide the DSI. | | On drugs, a new one, originally developed to fight cancer, has cut the risk of death in hospitalised Covid-19 patients by over 55%, a study found. But when Nidhi Jacob spoke to doctors they said there were caveats in interpreting these results. Find out more here.
Politicians never disappoint with their claims, and we checked several this week.
Divyani Dubey finds out whether Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's and Deputy CM Manish Sisodia's claims on Delhi's revenue surplus after the Aam Aadmi Party was elected are true or not, in a FactChecker piece. | | In another fact check, we find that graphics put out by BJP leader Subramanian Swamy, saying that India was the "third-largest economy" in 2011 and is now the "164th fastest growing nation", claims repeated by Congress' Udit Raj, were misleading.
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