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
Community enterprise unlimited
Pulp fact
Researchers in the US have developed a highly efficient paper recycling process
SOUTH AFRICA
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
Nothing to smile about!
Yashwant Sinha pleases the industry by playing a rude joke on the environment
OECD’s ‘new’ narrative on economic policy isn’t exactly new
It fails to acknowledge capitalism’s role in locking humanity into a regime of consumption-driven growth, resource extraction and widening …
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
Survey proposes direct benefit transfer in fertiliser subsidy
The government spent Rs 73,000 crore as subsidy on fertilizers in 2015-16
A tool to aid democracy lies rusting
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Climate change is the greatest threat to the planet
World Economic Forum's 'Global Risks Report 2020' and UN's 'Global Economic Prospects' claim extreme weather and loss in biodiversity will …
A pact to choke
To join the RCEP, a major regional trade bloc, India is making huge concessions without getting anything significant in return
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 …
THAILAND