Debate: Is GDP a true and accurate measurement of growth?
A new book, The Great Invention by Ehsan Masood, unveils the genesis of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and how it shaped the modern economic …
Climate change: alarming Africa-wide report predicts 30% drop in crop revenue, 50 million without water
African leaders need to be very proactive in their climate change and mitigation efforts
Measuring sustainability through inclusive wealth
United Nations Environment’s latest report suggests that the Inclusive Wealth Index (IWI), rather than GDP is better suited to capture a …
India GDP growth for festival quarter disappoints
Pandemic shadow prolongs on economy as central scales down full-year growth estimates
Again, stop talking about GDP
India missed another opportunity to shed its obsession with a bad measure of economy
Damage estimates for hurricanes like Dorian don’t capture the full cost of climate change-fueled disasters
Growth accounting incorporates the productive use of capital and innovation into the equation. The question we want to ask is what happens to GDP …
Agriculture sustains growth, but what about the whole year?
All sectors of Indian economy, except farm, remain below 2019-20 levels
Union Budget 2019-20: Income support for farmers drives historic allocation for agri ministry
Rs 75,000 crore for income assistance to boost rural consumption, claims government
GDP obsession
If the growth rate is so great, why are the poor not getting a taste of it?
Economic Survey 2018-19: Growth slowest in five years due to low food inflation
Agriculture sector contracted in fourth quarter; farmers produced less, spent less on consumption
World to suffer $10 trillion loss by 2050 unless nature is saved: WWF report
However, annual global GDP will be 0.02 % higher by 2050 if conservation of nature is done
Minimum wage for South African farm workers: 2013 hike helped reduce poverty even though compliance was poor
Low minimum wage compliance was observed among the lowest paid workers — employers did not comply with the new minimum wage
What Bhutan got right about happiness, and what other countries can learn
Bhutan has recorded an average growth in annual GDP of 7.5% since the early 1980s; poverty levels have declined from 36% in 2007 to 10% in 2019
COVID-19: Tanzania needs $1.1 billion support right away, says IMF
Current account deficit of the east-African country expected to widen to 4.5% of 2021-22 GDP
Two Karnatakas: North-south divide hampers state’s economic, social development
Concentration of development in a few urban centres of the south creates excessive pressure on the region’s resources, hampering the …
Growing burden
Our fanatical pursuit of GDP as the sole measure of development is only throwing up more catastrophic nightmares
Advance warnings
The agriculture sector is estimated to grow at 1.8 per cent in 2023-24—a steep decline from the 4 per cent growth in financial year 2022-…
Cost of COVID-19 lockdown: Who bears the burden?
A curfew of three weeks requires more financial remedies, especially for the low-income groups
Is India in a position to announce a target of net zero emissions by 2050?
This has to be decided keeping into consideration the country’s national circumstances and the feasibility of achieving such a target
Elections 2019: Every fourth voter a distressed farmer
Though the farmers were not an issue in the general elections they now hold the fort for the world’s fastest growing economy despite being …
India’s GDP projected to grow at 7.6% in 2015-16
Agriculture, forestry and fishing sector is estimated to grow only marginally at 1.1 per cent
UN report forecasts positive growth outlook for India; pegs 2016 growth at 7.6 per cent
Report, however, warns that high levels of stressed bank assets and fragile business confidence could constrain investment growth
Basic income support in South Africa: Risks, rewards and what it will take
The money will be taken from employed citizens and the affluent
Tourism industry faced losses worth $2.6 trillion in 2020-2022
While tourism has rebounded, both tourist numbers and export revenues in 2022 remained 34% below 2019 levels
UP Assembly polls 2022: Why state’s ‘jobless growth’ decade will be a headache for new government
Trends over the decade indicate that the pace of economic growth is slow and not sufficient if UP wants to achieve the goal of becoming a trillion-…