Debate: Has economic liberalisation threatened India’s environment and natural resources?
The inaugural issue of Down To Earth (May 31, 1992) coincided with India opening up its economy. We carried a debate on how economic …
Africa meet to focus on innovation and knowledge sharing
Speakers at the upcoming African Economic Conference will explore how Africa can achieve inclusive growth
To ensure food for tomorrow
Rice and wheat yields are falling. To check it a new initiative has been taken
Young scientists' meet
Scientists urge to strike a balance between development and environment
A thought for food
Experience shows that agriculture benefits far more from overall macro-economic reforms
Building back after COVID-19 blow can create safer livelihoods for transgender community
The pandemic restrictions robbed the community of their livelihood options
Redundant since 2019: The 12th ministerial conference fails to revive WTO Appellate Body
Reappointment of judges to the appellate body stopped in 2017
Kenya’s Turkana County experienced the highest increase in inequality: Report
It is among the 12 counties in the country where inequality rose
GDP obsession
If the growth rate is so great, why are the poor not getting a taste of it?
Literacy as a yardstick of social health
The Bank and the pauper
Wanted - a second wave
THE TRUE STATE OF THE PLANET -Edited by Ronald Bailey ,The Free Prees:$15
Diabolic deed
Ivan Illich (1926-2002)
"His thought leads out of the prison of routinized, sterile, preconceived notions"
India Poised A Times of India celebration
Now that the vote's been won
Power and perils of artificial hand
Considering artificial intelligence through the ideas of Adam Smith
How should tribal owners profit from forest wealth?
The gross tribal produce of Bastar is in excess of Rs 1,000 crore a year. Tribals, 'owners' of the minor forest produce -- in terms of the …
'Avoiding controversy is crucial for the GEF'
Mostafa K Tolba , has been an influential figure in the global environmental arena, and has monitored the state of the world's environment. …
Needed: a new yardstick
Gross National Product may be an inadequate measure of economic activity when environmental damage occurs
Trade rules are deeply flawed but Trump’s tariff fixation is hurting America and the rest of the world
International trade rules are unfair, but even Trump’s tariff-centric trade policies won’t fix what’s broken about the global …
Southern African countries can do better at infrastructure: What the choices might look like
Decision makers need to employ strategic foresight to better navigate uncertainty, upheaval and inevitable change
What is an inverted yield curve? Why is it panicking markets, and why is there talk of recession?
The yield curve is a graph showing the relationship between interest rates earned on lending money for different durations
No offshore wind project has commenced in India: Are we on track for 30 GW by 2030?
Some 195 GW of technological offshore wind potential in India’s EEZ still unharnessed
India’s deep economic paralysis just set in
Amid the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, India enters into a situation that currently looks unimaginably distressed.