Why environmental degradation is a big health risk
Down To Earth and Centre for Science and Environment jointly release Body Burden 2015, an annual health report
India loses up to $46 billion to malnourishment
Report by children’s non-profit links childhood malnourishment to educational performance, adult income and GDP
Allocate 3 per cent of GDP to healthcare, says Indian Medical Association
Recommendations for Union Budget 2013-14 include wooing private sector; public health experts sceptical
India still scores low in human development in UNDP report
It is ranked at 136 along with Equatorial Guinea while Sri Lanka strides ahead
GDP-driven growth is not sustainable, says UN report
Inclusive Wealth Report asks countries to reorient their economic policy planning and evaluation away from GDP targetting
Green rider for GDP
World is moving towards natural capital as a measure of economic growth
Pakistan elections: health on agenda
Pakistani politicians woo voters with proposals for improvements in country’s healthcare system ahead of polling on Saturday
GDP ignores cost to the environment
Can this flawed measure of growth be reversed?
Inheritance of loss
Whatever the poverty line, 50 per cent people in India will remain poor
Who are the poor?
Planning Commission's poverty estimates do not reflect ground reality
Identifying the poor and measuring the poverty is a contentious issue. Poverty line is not a sacred line. At best, it indicates how far the …
Poverty level will increase if health expenditure included
Planning Commission factors in less than one rupee a day as health expenditure in its affidavit to the apex court
Union Budget: challenges of public provisioning in India
Will the first budget of the 12th Five-Year Plan make a serious effort to plug loopholes in revenue collection and increase spending on social …
Agriculture ministry bats for GM crops
Calls for a national policy on GM crops in its report to Parliament
Inclusive budget for inclusive growth
Budgets should not just talk about GDP and sops. It should ensure that basic rights and necessities of people are met in an effective manner
Budget through the years post liberalisation
Run up to Budget 2012-13
Taxation and inequality: expectations from Union Budget 2013-14
It is imperative that the forthcoming Budget recognises that fair taxation policies are at the core of addressing inequality in the country
Road safety bill: Can it help achieve zero mortality?
Experts attending a roundtable organised by Delhi non-profit Centre for Science and Environment urge for a people-centric law rather than one …
COVID-19 impact pushes India’s $5 trillion dream 3 yrs farther
Policymakers must focus equally on all 3 sectors: Agriculture, industry, services
COVID-19: Developing countries in unprecedented debt situation
Demand for a ‘global debt deal’ picks up