Rise And Rise Of MFIs

Microfinance institutions entered big lending five years ago and registered 83 per cent growth

Bitter returns of a bumper harvest

What is immunity debt and why is it causing a spike in swine flu cases

Delhi had 15 patients in August; 1,500 cases & 43 deaths reported from Maharashtra this year

Political parties choose farm loan waiver for electoral gains, but at what cost?

Farmers have outstanding loan of Rs12.60 lakh crore, which translates to Rs 100,000 per cultivator

Death on mounds of a bumper crop

As corruption hijacks procurement centres in Bundelkhand, farmers prefer suicide to a debt trap. Richard Mahapatra reports from Uttar Pradesh …

Climate finance is not going to Global South where it is needed the most: CSE

Report launched right before the international summit on New Global Financial Pact in Paris  

Loan burden increased across India in 2020 amid pandemic: Study

Among marginalised groups, indebtedness was highest in Muslim-majority and Scheduled Caste-majority hamlets

Tikait on Green revolution

When asked to comment on the green revolution, Mahendra singh Tikait, Bharat Kisan Union (BKU) leader relates it to issues of organic …

Tikait on farmer loans

Here's a sneak preview of BKU (Bharat Kisan Union) Leader Mahendra Singh Tikait's tête-á-tête with DTE on farmers' income, …

Discoms bailed out

Cabinet Committee approves plan to free state power distribution companies of debt

Almost 60% of Africa’s low-income countries in debt distress: UNCTAD

Ghana and Tunisia are in talks with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for emergency loans

Farmers feel left out

The budget is more concerned about the consumer than the grower

UP voters ask candidates for assembly election to take test

Farmers propose Bills on loan waiver, fair prices in their own 'parliament'

More than 180 farmer organisations from across the country proposed Bills related to debt waiver and fair crop prices in a mock parliament 

Kingfisher and Cronies

In search of famine

HARVESTING HUNGER·A video film by Krishnendu Bose·Duration: 53 minutes

In Africa, climate change has exacerbated modern slavery & government response is poor

More than 3.1 million Africans are in forced marriage and more than 3.8 million in forced labour

Tinubu inherits Nigeria’s high debt — an economist analyses what this means for the country’s future

Nigeria’s external debt stock —what it owes non-residents — was $41.69 billion in 2022

Don't need subsidies, give us the right price

For most Indians, Mahendra Singh Tikait is the man who brought Delhi to its knees in 1988 with a rally that brought the national capital face to …

COVID-19: Developing countries in unprecedented debt situation

Demand for a ‘global debt deal’ picks up

In rural West Bengal, debts mount and socioeconomic fabric collapses in absence of MGNREGS

Local economy hangs by a thread as residents desperately demand revival of the rural employment scheme

No land, no money

An Act meant to financially help tenant farmers of suicide-prone Andhra has failed them

Wavering

Trial and error

Bitter sweet

Who should have the first right over sugar produced by Uttar Pradesh's sugar mills - the banks who loaned the mills or the farmers who supplied …