Africa’s economic progress requires investment in people: ECA

According to the ECA, Africa’s growth story is underpinned by increased investment in infrastructure, rapid urbanisation and rising …

COVID-19 aftershocks: This is an economic collapse triggered by a health crisis

Mehrotra is visiting professor, Centre for Development, University of Bath, UK, and former economics professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi

Mass poverty is back in India

After 45 years, the world’s fastest poverty-reducing country adds the maximum poor in a year  

The world is pro-protests, now

While economic crisis often push people to demonstrations, there is an increasing level of dissatisfaction with democracy

COVID-19 makes a basic meal unaffordable in sub-Saharan Africa

A basic plate of food now costs 186% of a person’s daily income in South Sudan 

RCEP deal to make investors stronger, people weaker, says trade group

The deal will affect access to medicines and seeds by raising the standards of intellectual property rights, claims Forum of Trade Justice

Mozambique case study shows that poverty is about much more than income

Representing poverty as a well-defined objective condition focuses attention on symptoms and risks diverting attention away from underlying …

Underfunding, misleading claims: The story of MGNREGA in New India

Govt has made tall claims on NREGA implementation; but it is neither keen on providing dignified wages nor allocating adequate funds for the scheme

Kill ‘dwarves’, recommends ‘creatively destructive’ Economic Survey

India’s small firms are holding back growth and job creation; government plans for something else to tide over job crisis

‘Totalitarian movements are self-destructive’

The reason socialist awareness is not possible in the 21st century is that the middle class in India in the 60s was primarily dominated by the …

Fish stocks in Asia-Pacific to be over by 2048

Economic growth is leading to the decline of biodiversity, says a report released in Colombia

Banking Ordinance a bold step but silent on considering environmental and social risk management to reduce NPA: CSE

The CSE calls for mandating environmental and social risk management for internal credit risk appraisal process

Tough choices have to be made for Africa to sustainably urbanise

With Africa approaching 50 per cent urbanisation, governments have to make hard choices for scale and type of investments they need to make

Budget 2017-18: will the government soothe frayed tempers post demonetisation?

As India looks forward to the latest budget, we bring to you the expectations from it and the step-by-step process of how it is formulated

New leader, old challenge

India’s first PM born after Independence will face the old problem of poverty eradication

The credo of an economist

Long-term economic growth is impossible through any act that pits humankind against the environment

Examining poor showing of Indian industry

INDIAN INDUSTRIALISATION: STRUCTURE AND POLICY ISSUES Editors: Arun Ghosh, K K Subrahmanian, Mridul Eapen, Haseeb A Drabu Publisher: Oxford …

UN falls victim to its inherent weaknesses

There are several reasons why the UN finds itself bereft of power today. Part of the crisis results from the cash-strapped organisation's own …

'Values of our society lead to disaster'

In 1972, Dennis Meadows had co-authored the well-known report, Limits to Growth, along with Donella Meadows and Jorgen Randers. Recently, the …

CENDIT scores with film series

Catalysts for Change, a 13-part film series produced by the Centre for the Development of Instructional Technology, covers the gamut of problems …

IMF package leads Pakistan to disaster

A short-term economic policy has meant more unemployment and poverty as well as a slower growth rate and environmental degradation

A star spender with clipped wings

The ambitious Indian space programme, despite occasional setbacks, has had its share of success. A backgrounder to the programme which is very …

Oiling the wheels of globallisation

The Commission on Global Governance calls for a democratic world governance to deal with increasing global interdependence

Clean and profitable

Pollution control methods are an investment that ensure long-term profits for the corporate sector

Peace, and war in Angola

Even as the government of Angola, mulls over a second draft of a legislation on land rights, aid and humanitarian organisations point out it …