Green investment banks can unlock private finance for green infrastructure: Report

Centralised expertise in an independent institution can be an effective for drawing larger inflows of private capital

COVID-19 lockdown deals blow to Rajasthan’s tendu leaf economy

Demand for tendu patta has been declining over the years, mainly due to decreasing consumption of bidis

Expect budget to be rural-centric, focus on delivery to beneficiaries

PM Modi has already launched a major water conservation campaign, put the focus of his second tenure on revival of the agrarian economy

Simply Put: World Lion Day

Simply Put: Russia’s fuel bomb

Simply Put: The Ukraine honeypot

Simply Put: Between stagflation devil & pandemic deep sea

China has a carbon market now: What does it mean

Will overtake the EU market; carbon prices likely to be lower than the EU

Simply put: Act of God

Simply put: What’s injurious for whom

Simply put: Lockdown and Unemployment

COVID-19: 300-400 Maldhari families from Gujarat stranded in Chhattisgarh

Pastoralists seen as ‘corona carriers’ in state

COVID-19 a double whammy for India’s urban poor

There is the shock of the pandemic plus the loss of livelihood

Coronavirus may eat into global FDI flow, predicts UNCTAD

FDI flows across the world will witness a sharp decline of 5-15 per cent

Simply Put: HDI 2019

Nairobi to soon roll out Bus Rapid Transit system

The city will be the eighth in Africa to adopt BRT system in the last 10 years

77% soil health cards yet to be issued

Finance Minster Arun Jaitley's claims on the scheme are exaggerated

Reworking informal businesses

In countries like India, informal business is the existing order of the day

Survey proposes direct benefit transfer in fertiliser subsidy

The government spent Rs 73,000 crore as subsidy on fertilizers in 2015-16

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Environmental becomes a key issue

Environmental issues are rapidly coming into focus in the US presidential compaign

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