The absence of concrete measures gives the government space to shrug off all responsibilities
Centre hikes prices of ethanol to bail out sugar industry
UK after Brexit: farm subsidy could be significantly reduced to comply with WTO rules
Rich nations should reduce trade-distorting farm subsidies by 2019: India, China tell WTO
The world will miss the SDG target 1, a poverty-free world
1.6 people should escape poverty every second but currently just 1.1 are doing so. Worryingly, by 2020, the rate ...
Venezuela: starved and stifled
As people hunt animals from zoos to feed themselves, the President, accused of extrajudicial executions, is busy blaming the ...
Modi at 4: Where are the jobs? A question that haunts the government
As opposed to the promise of creating 2 crore jobs, the government now stands witness to a steady decline ...
War of words: why journalists need to understand grammar to write accurately about violence
An important but contested roles of journalism is the act of putting political violence into words. If they sound neutral, ...
Be prepared for spike in food prices, if distribution of monsoon remains uneven this year
Spatial distribution of rainfall is one of the factors ensuring healthy agriculutral production that keeps food inflation under control
Anger of the jobless youth
Their frustrations in an unjust world can take various expressions—a fidayeen in Iraq, a stone pelter in Kashmir, a ...
Generational spasm
To address the growing unrest across the world, we need to effectively utilise the demographic dividend
How IT Threatens Democracy
Social media could be just the start of a slippery slope leading to an Orwellian world controlled by Big ...
The road to the great regression
In the 21st century, counter reactions to globalisation have been taking radically different forms
Spread of non-violent strategies can empower civil societies in Middle East
The Arab Spring may not have put an end to re-colonisation of the Middle East and North Africa, but ...
Poor land use can cost the world $23 trillion by 2050
If the world spends even a fraction of the predicted loss, it can reverse land degradation, which affects the ...
How not to save WTO
The WTO mini-ministerial held in March in New Delhi showed a poverty of ideas on how to protect the ...
Data shows corporates are consistently favoured over rural India
Corporate India gets indirect subsidy equivalent to 60 per cent of government expenditure on rural areas
Stimulus that can spoil the milk sector
Karnataka government's financial stimulus to its dairy cooperative is benefitting 2.5 million farmers, but can destabilise the national market
Can a cash-on-delivery model work for global aid?
As rich nations try to heal the scars of 2008 global financial crisis through deep budget cuts and protectionist ...
Resetting the Africa-Europe Relationship
Africa faces a broad range of development challenges and overcoming them will require huge sums of foreign aid and ...
Will Bitcoins unleash fresh round of volatility in global commodity markets?
Cryptocurrencies are not just guzzling energy or cornering investments; they have been recently granted entry into the world’s commodity ...
Vulnerable employment will continue to affect 72% of workers in South Asia: ILO
India is faced with the dual problem of informal and vulnerable employment
Allocation for schools in tribal areas increased, but funds for other education schemes heavily slashed
Funds for hostels and pre-matric scholarships for ST students sustained a drop of 94 per cent and 75 per ...
Climate change disrupts the goal of doubling farmers’ income
According to the just tabled Economic Survey, the government needs to implement “radical” actions to ensure the Prime Minister’s ...
Fruits of globalisation have gone only to few at the top
We need to rewrite the rules of economy to ensure that ordinary citizens benefit