Odisha’s musuems are cost centres. But they need to move to being profit centres. If they don’t have enough revenue surplus, our heritage will wither away. They are directly correlated
Oil price shocks have a long history, but today’s situation may be the most complex ever
International Working Women’s Day: Between survival & empowerment is endless labours in Sunderbans
Why the cost of mitigating climate change can’t be boiled down to one right number, despite some economists’ best attempts
Why Union Budget 2022-23 is not good in environmental terms
By slashing allocation for environmental organisations, regulatory boards and introducing infrastructure development schemes, the Centre has sent a wrong ...
Why Union Budget 2022-23 will help India’s dairy and livestock farmers
Reduced alternate minimum tax and surcharge reduction for cooperative societies, increased allocation several schemes as well as livestock health ...
COVID-19: Virus and vaccine lessons from 2021 for better 2022
Inoculation, restrictions, infrastructure and memory are effective tools in mitigating COVID-19 infection and easing restrictions on the economy; our research proves ...
Union Budget 2022-23: Customs exemption extension on steel scrap will bring temporary relief
It would have been good to see the Centre taking concrete steps to improve domestic scrap availability
Union Budget 2022-23: Biogas should be given due importance in organic farming
The Economic Survey presented January 31, 2022, highlighted government emphasis towards organic farming and crop diversification; it should promote biogas in ...
Union Budget 2022-23: Just 70 weeks left for India@75 targets, will Modi deliver the ‘New India’
From the promised $4 trillion economy to employment for women to doubling of farmers’ income to poverty eradication this ...
What does NFHS-5 data tell us about state of women empowerment in India
All women work but only a few are salaried: Only 25.4% of women aged 15-49 years who worked in ...
Moving away from coal: Livelihoods of Odisha’s mine workers need to be protected
At least half a million lives are associated with coal mining in Odisha
Economic impacts of festivals: A case study of Durga Puja in West Bengal
The economic worth of creative industries around this Durga Puja was estimated at Rs 32, 377 crores; it has ...
What Bhutan got right about happiness, and what other countries can learn
Bhutan has recorded an average growth in annual GDP of 7.5% since the early 1980s; poverty levels have declined ...
The World Bank and IMF are using flawed logic in their quest to do away with the informal sector
What’s put forward as pro-poor interventions in the reports in fact risk actively increasing inequality and further disadvantaging vulnerable ...
India’s gas push: Import dependency is growing. Are we on the right track?
For millions of people living in poverty, however, the recent LPG price hike makes access to clean cooking fuel ...
How the COVID-19 pandemic affected North America
One of the biggest factors that resulted in the rapid spread of the infection across the continent of North ...
Hurun India Rich List: Malnourished and the multi-billionaires
The rich will only get richer, irrespective of the poor getting richer or not
COVID-19 and jobs: The salaried, younger workers and women suffered more
While overall employment declined in the country in 2020-21, compared to 2019-20, some sections have been affected more adversely ...
COVID-19: How Koraput's tribal women hawkers are trying to recover livelihoods
The pandemic restricted the mobility of the women street vendors, pushing them to sell their wares online.
Making migrants count: The role of Indian judiciary amid COVID-19 pandemic
The Supreme Court’s recent order has shifted the focus from protecting workers’ legal rights to government largesse
Why management students need to be sensitised on human, public policy issues
A well-designed study of public policy can equip students with understanding of issues confronting society, economy and nation
Four clothing businesses that could lead us away from the horrors of fast fashion
Post-pandemic world calls for the need shift towards a circular economy in which waste and pollution are removed from ...
Make trade work for climate
EU’s carbon border tax won’t take us towards a cooperative world required to combat climate change
Kendu leaf trade: Stringent laws needed to keep children out
The news of children working at kendu leaf collection centres often trickle in during April-May every year. Children are ...