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
Americas has 13% of world population, but exploits quarter of global natural resources
As much as 65 per cent of Americas’ natural resources are not available to it anymore
Reverse the learning
Continuous economic growth is an illusion. Adivasi economics may be the only hope for India's future
India's budget just declared
Prime Minister Narendra Modi declares major schemes in his post-demonetisation message on new year's eve
Big Tobacco is stubbed out
An arbitral ruling upholding Uruguay's anti-smoking regulations and fining Philip Morris is a big win for public health
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 …
Economic Survey 2022-23: Health not a priority? Just over 2% of GDP spent
Out-of-pocket-expenses remained dangerously high till 2019-2020
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
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 …