Economic drift

Graphic editor Sorit Gupto questions the stark economic divide between rich and poor

Healthy news

‘Centre using finance commission to promote its flagship programmes’

Centre is urging Finance Commission to finalise tax-devolution formula keeping in mind the national development programme

Surgical strikes for fetching jobs

Like terrorism, jobless growth continues in India irrespective of who is in power. To tackle it, we need not cross borders

Sprucing up

...production techniques could go a long way in creating a pollution-free milieu as the final aim would be to achieve a no-waste company discipline

Cost of ecological balance

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Simply Put: Great GDP Race

A personal memoir of planned development

India's affair with five-year plans ends

Lonely woods

No place for forest keepers

Faulty indicators

Number of jobless swelled to 197 million in 2015

Nearly 2.3 million more unemployed people will be added this year. The increase in the number of jobseekers has occurred mainly in developing …

New raj wars the old

Its high time the panchayati raj institutions in India reviewed their actual role in spelling out developmental processes

A tool to aid democracy lies rusting

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Debate: Is GDP a true and accurate measurement of growth?

A new book, The Great Invention by Ehsan Masood, unveils the genesis of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and how it shaped the modern economic …

The axe and human civilisation

The use and abuse of wood is a major theme in the history of humankind according to a new book, A Forest Journey

Chips make them rich

Princeton University scientists come up with cost-effective technology for making better silicon chips

China debunks greens

China recently released a policy document debunking environmentalists' accusations that it was exploiting the Himalayan region for the benefit of …

Five takeaways from Economic Survey 2016

One of the key findings from this analysis is increasing inequality in income in India

India's budgets through the decades

Its cool out there

Books, films and underdevelopment

Growing apart

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