Why the African free trade area could be the game-changer for the continent’s economies
Trade and financial integration are both about countries exporting to and importing from each other. The two are often referred to as economic …
Budget 2023-24: Do you know what growth rate actually implies?
Before arriving at conclusions regarding growth, one has to be really aware of the factors and variables that determine it
Nearly half a million Indians migrated to OECD countries in 2021: Report
International Migration Outlook 2023 highlights developments in policy responses to climate change displacements
India not to be part of Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership
Concerns not addressed: India; 15 other countries to sign agreement in 2020;
Kenya’s GDP contracted 0.3% in 2020, courtesy COVID-19: Economic Survey
The Government of Kenya has recognised the information, communications and technology sector as a key contributor to the country’s GDP
Economic Survey 2022-23: Health not a priority? Just over 2% of GDP spent
Out-of-pocket-expenses remained dangerously high till 2019-2020
Davos 2024: WEF report finds challenges in health and wellness; reversals in global health cooperation
Prior to 2020, most indicators of health cooperation grew slowly and steadily
Look back at the decade: Youth unrest
What explains the restlessness that marked the second decade of the new Millenium.
Global growth to slow in 2023, trade to grow at less than a third the pace before pandemic: World Bank
Growth projections for 70% emerging markets & developing countries downgraded
DTE Coverage: The highlights of Davos 2023
The world economy, climate change and the Russia-Ukraine War were among the issues discussed at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum
Inflation is rising in Kenya: Here’s why, and how to fix it
Politicians eyeing Kenya’s 9 August polls have been offering solutions in exchange for votes
Simply Put: How far will Nirmala Sitharaman's longest budget take India?
Down To Earth's Graphic Editor Sorit Gupto decodes the comparatives and superlatives of Union Budget 2020-21
Economic Survey 2019-20: Afforestation under GIM over 126,916 ha
Data for afforestation undertaken under GIM from Parliamentary questions paint different picture though
Economic Survey 2019-20: Coverage of food processing sector needs scaling up
Recommendation is backed by fact that schemes floated to help sector have not been implemented properly
Look back at the decade: Unemployment
Outtake from the second decade of the new millemium: India desperately needs to avail jobs for its ever increasing youth population
Cut inequality to fight climate crisis
Economic inequality raises carbon emissions, with the rich contributing most: Human Development Index
Whose debt is it
Many African nations are defaulting on payment of loans they have utilised for funding climate-resilient infrastructure
Africa’s post-COVID-19 economic recovery plan: Integrate climate change action in planning, says report
Africa is projected to suffer a fall of 2-8% in GDP in post-COVID-19 scenario
Simply put: No package for them
India's data blockade: Certainly uncertain terrain
No recent NSSO survey release passed without controversy
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
How India remains poor: Nine billionaires own as much as half the people
India protests against rising Inequality