COVID-19 trade restrictions devastating for Africa’s urban poor
Trade enables formal firms to flourish, which is essential for economic recovery; It also also protects the urban poor in informal economy …
Economic Survey 2018-19: Healthcare still inaccessible in rural India
Most primary health centres have only one doctor; out-of-pocket expense still high
Delhiites breathe in five times more SO2 than a decade ago
The national capital faces challenges on toxicity and vehicular pollution, highlights the Economic Survey
Are monetary penalties effective enough to save forests?
The Union Environment Ministry has issued guidelines to deal with forest clearance violations by revising penalties. Will these guidelines …
Honduras emerges as most dangerous country for environmental activists
In majority of the cases involving threats and killings, attackers are not held accountable
No rise in CO2 emissions globally for second year in a row: IEA
For the year 2015, global CO2 emissions stood at 32.1 billion tonnes, essentially the same as levels in 2013
'Dissatisfaction with quality of life triggered Arab Spring'
Standard development indicators failed to predict the outburst of anger in the spring of 2011, says a World Bank report
Can we make this U-turn?
THE ECONOMIC REVOLUTION Willem Hoogendijk Publisher: Green Print/Jan Van Arkel Price: £6.99
Sharing the air
The rich nations are trying to frame the rules for trading in emissions. However, the methods being used to allocate these are questionable. ANIL …
Nurture nature
To achieve economic growth and poverty alleviation, it is imperative to constantly replenish environmental resources
Chimney sweepers
Industrial production threatens to shroud all economic development activities in layers of smog
Road to hell
Emissions from two-stroke vehicles and diesel have contributed to the eight-fold rise in vehicular pollution in two decades
Creative accounting
The US administration reneged on its earlier undertaking on the Kyoto Protocol, choosing instead to come up with its own climate change strategy: …
The house that Digvijay built
Governments and the masses have very rarely worked together successfully in modern India. In Madhya Pradesh, chief minister Digvijay Singh has …
Software freedom
On Richard Stallman's personal homepage it says, "America means civil liberties. Patriotism is protecting them." Words that sum up the …
India's strategies for rice congress
Global economy’s weakest half-decade performance in 30 years likely by end of 2024, warns World Bank
Calls for $2.4 trillion increase in investment by developing countries for course correction
War in Ukraine derailed global economic growth, climate action: WESP report
Higher use of fossil fuels and increased prices of food, nickel major factors
Uncommon swing for commons
States rush in with new policies and programmes to protect village land
Exploring the ‘public’ in public sanitation services
A look into whether our toilet infrastructures promote gender inclusion or exclusion
Opinions
SEZ who? Not the farmers
They lived with dinosaurs
‘Universal Basic Income won’t make people lazy, but afford them more choice’
SDP leader and MP Prem Das Rai speaks to Down To Earth about his party’s plan to role out UBI in Sikkim and how it will help create a …
Health for all: WHO launches first-ever roadmap to link health with sustainable economic growth
WHO Council on the Economics of Health for All launches report at 76th World Health Assembly