SOUTH AFRICA

Uttaranchal tea estates bane for farmers

Does poverty trigger extremism?

Two recent developments could precipitate a global debate on whether poverty triggers extremism

Today's profits, tomorrow's losses

Ecological economics attempts to evaluate the environmental and other external costs that a society pays to produce a commodity

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

Arunachals first HDR report

Piece of land needed

Nigeria has just hiked interest rates: Why it’s the wrong recipe for curbing inflation

Hike would lead to an increase in the value of the Naira through what’s called “Carry Trade”

The past about to return

The US-China rivalry will lead to more competition, paving a comeback for a ’brown agenda’ we can ill afford

Wealth, inequality and children’s right to survival in India

The National Family Health Survey – 4 shows how economic inequality has a direct effect on stunting and wasting of India’s children

209,762 graduates in Delhi unemployed: Economic Survey

Worryingly, the number of unskilled people in Delhi has also increased from 32,033 in 2014 to 34,258 in 2015

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

Tropical cyclones cause more damage than we think — and India among countries facing high social cost of carbon

Extreme weather events drive up these costs by more than 20% globally

Geopolitical tensions can hit sub-Saharan Africa’s economic growth, warns IMF

Region could see 4% GDP contraction over 10 years

Economic Survey 2019-20 bets on ‘nexus approach’ for meeting SDG

India needs to focus on goals like hunger and gender parity, where it still scores low

A bitter dose

Multinational drug firms gang up against a company that wants to produce cheaper generics

Talk technology, not subsidies, to benefit the poor

Jharkhand

Most politicians and activists see the Forest Conservation Act as a hurdle towards empowering the tribal population. They want the act amended

Uttaranchal

The process of alienating people from natural resources has not stopped, even with the attainment of statehood

Chattisgarh

Fighting the drought preoccupies the new government. Charting a mining policy to explore the rich mineral deposits is next on the agenda

THAILAND