Last week’s Torah portion (i.e., Noach) showed how the LORD miraculously preserved Noah and his family from cataclysmic judgment. Just as there were ten generations from Adam to Noah, so there …

No cobwebs of desire. webs, fog melts. Sun is No quilt guilts either. Lekha Chakraborty

a Chakraborty Employment and Affiliations Professor, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, New Delhi (research instit. te of Ministry of Finance) and 2017-present. Research Affiliate, Levy …

Special Promises In this excerpt from Parashat Lekh Lekha, we will focus on the rather enigmatic Melchizedek. The chronicle of Melchizedek is found in chapter 14. If we remove chapter 14 from …

Lekha Chakraborty, ‘Gender-Responsive Budgeting as Fiscal Innovation: Evidence from India on Processes’ (2014) Working Paper No. 797, Levy Economics Institute, New York: Levy Economics …

Theoretically fiscal decentralisation is good for efficiency and equity in the economy based on the rationale that local governments, which are closer to citizens, are more efficient in the provisioning of …

In the opening פּסוּק (pasuk, verse) of Parashat Lekh Lekha, God chooses Avram for a special mission, and commands him to go on a journey that becomes the first part of the story of the Jewish people.