India’s poverty reduction slowing down since a decade

The world finally has an assessment of India’s poverty level in absence of an official one for the last 10 years. It increases global …

Union Budget 2022-23: Number of centrally sponsored schemes cut by half

19 schemes under Ministry of Women & Child Development ‘rationalised’ revamped to only 3  

Four clothing businesses that could lead us away from the horrors of fast fashion

Post-pandemic world calls for the need shift towards a circular economy in which waste and pollution are removed from the system 

Make trade work for climate

EU’s carbon border tax won’t take us towards a cooperative world required to combat climate change

Fighting poverty : How jackfruit chips come to save Odisha tribals' day

Tribals resort to distress sale in absence of marketing facilities; the state trains 1,000 tribal women to prepare and sell jackfruit chips

A shift in grants

Mapping changes in total support estimate to the sector; producer support estimate; consumer subsidy estimate; general services support estimate 

Millions of labourers to be affected by brick producers’ strike over hike in GST, coal rates

Uttar Pradesh manufacturers to cease production for a year; Coal rates doubled from last year, GST goes up to 12% from 5%

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

Delhi’s electronic bazaars are one of the city’s last non-elite commercial spaces

As dynamic public spaces, these bazaars are invaluable

A greenwash?

Will the Centre's first-of-its-kind Green Credit Programme Implementation Rules 2023 be a winner? 

Invisible Trillions review: global capitalism operates beyond the rule of law and threatens democracy

In Raymond W Baker’s view, democracy is self-correcting, but capitalism is not. His main message is: reform capitalism or forfeit democracy