Economic Survey tells government to utilise public finance to combat climate change

Green finance from private sources is not available so the government must leverage public finance to stop global warming

Civil societies urges governments of India and Nepal to end blockade

A blockade on indispensable fuel and other essentials imported from India has now entered its third month

Past lessons, future strategies

Studying the history of human interaction with nature can be very useful in formulating resource management policies. It can also provide a …

Pay-offs to progress

Economic development has been the watchword in India's march onto the 21st century. But the country is paying an enormous price for this much-…

Fostering change

The socioeconomic scenario of Panch Mahals in Gujarat has improved due to the active participation of tribal women in a forestry programme

Gandhi revisited

Development policies based on Gandhian philosophy, rather than consumerism, are the best bet for tackling current environmental and development …

Australia divided over carbon trading

Sethusamundram project is unviable

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

Time for degrowth: to save the planet, we must shrink the economy

Increased development is always unsustainable, so let's stop kidding ourselves

From the blurbs

When technology waves its magic wand

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Lessons from the fringe of the world

Commission for healthonomics

Devolution is bankrupt

Now even the World Bank says money should flow to local bodies directly

Money is never 'for nothing'

The wizards of IT

More than infrastructure, Indian cities need real politics

Developers misuse SEZ land

Andhra Pradesh government issues notices for delays

Journey into the market-place

Papua New Guinea has come a long way from a society that began cultivating crops in 8000 BC and had no need for a market economy. It came in …

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