Union Budget 2020-21: Constant decline in Swachh Bharat Mission allocation

Output indicators of the allocation unclear

Africa’s debt crisis needs a bold new approach: Expert outlines a way forward

Africa needs to advocate more aggressively for its own interests

Union Budget 2024-25: High on claims, less on substance

The budget speech was reduced to unsubstantiated claims and dangling the carrot of prosperity in future yet again

IIT Delhi to start bachelor of design from session 2022-23

The four-year programme will have 20 seats to start with, and will be open to students of all specialisations 

Shear desperation: How can India’s wool sector be revived

India’s once thriving wool economy now depends on imports to sustain demand. Will the recent import of Australian Merino sheep for …

Why management students need to be sensitised on human, public policy issues

A well-designed study of public policy can equip students with understanding of issues confronting society, economy and nation

World Camel Day: Rearing as an art of healing

The relationship between camels and their rearers continues to be pronounced by centuries-old customs 

A new pandemic has struck the world: Food inflation

Food prices are increasing at an unprecedented rate worldwide, triggered by 2 years of COVID-19 pandemic-induced disruption and now the …

UN to boost humanitarian aid for Ukraine, form global crisis response group

Providing relief in captured cities is becoming riskier by the day as Russia widens its attack, says Antonio Guterres

India, alongside China and US, set to suffer maximum climate impacts on economy by 2050: Report

Bihar to be most affected in India; increase of climate impact in Assam to be highest globally during 1990-2050  

'Half of India without significant wealth'

Inequality hurts democracy, which is why governments need to intervene and regulate to fix this trend: Lucas Chancel, lead editor of World …

Why factory jobs for Ethiopian women haven’t translated into greater participation in politics

Income and job status have less of an impact on women in authoritarian contexts than in advanced democracies

The state of housing: What CSE research tells us about rents in Indian cities

Affordable rental housing has emerged as the new way to achieve the objective of housing for all 

A third of Nigerians are unemployed: Here’s why

The economy of the sub-Saharan country has not been in good shape for the past 5 years and first went into a recession in 2016

Areas in Africa with more Chinese-backed projects were more likely to experience protests

Areas with a larger number of Chinese projects do see lowered trust in local government; protests can also occur when citizens feel that economic …

How a call from Russia reminded Kerala’s Aranmula mirror makers of pre-pandemic prosperous times

The sector fell into bad times as labour and raw material costs increased due to floods and the pandemic

Fix from ground up: A $5-trillion economy target by 2025 for India is not unachievable

Prepare business strategies for districts and leverage existing government schemes to make India a global economic powerhouse

It is a global recession with economic growth among lowest in four decades

Inequalities, lack of uniform growth among countries making global economic recovery difficult, shows UN’s Trade and Development …

Global growth to slow in 2023, trade to grow at less than a third the pace before pandemic: World Bank

Growth projections for 70% emerging markets & developing countries downgraded  

DTE Coverage: The highlights of Davos 2023

The world economy, climate change and the Russia-Ukraine War were among the issues discussed at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum

In photos: Women leading poultry, livestock farming in rural Jharkhand

Poultry and livestock farming are a major source of income for those in rural Jharkhand, especially women, who are largely in charge of the …

Union Budget 2021-22: How significant is it in the time of COVID-19?

Nirmala Sitharaman needs to announce bold measures for undertaking additional public spending on an urgent basis

COVID-19: Traditional fisherfolk left in the lurch

They are not included in PM-Kisan and hence are not eligible for benefits similar to farmers

COVID-19: New assessment pegs 25% GDP slide for April-June

Expects industrial output to halve; inflation may shoot up

The Industrial Revolution began in Stuart Britain in the 1600s, a century before the traditional date: University of Cambridge

Britain’s service sector has been growing almost continuously for three hundred years, according to research