New world

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Progress report

India Poised A Times of India celebration

STEMming brain drain in COVID-19 era  

Brain drain is likely to re-emerge as an important conflict of interest between source and recipient countries

Trade rules are deeply flawed but Trump’s tariff fixation is hurting America and the rest of the world

International trade rules are unfair, but even Trump’s tariff-centric trade policies won’t fix what’s broken about the global …

Globalisation and its discontents: Why there's a backlash and how it needs to change

The electoral victory of Donald Trump, the Brexit vote and the rise of an aggressive nationalism in Europe are all part of a backlash to globalization

Revenge of the rich

Trump's election reflects the anger of the rich who did not get richer. This inequity is also at the core of the climate change challenge

"We need to think about all of us as being citizens of the same world"

Joseph E Stiglitz helped create a new branch of economics - the Economics of Information. This earned him the Nobel Prize for economics in 2001. …

The perils of babudom

ILO says economic growth leads to longer working hours in Asia

World’s ‘model diet’ under threat from lifestyle changes, globalisation

A study shows that people in the Mediterranean region are shying away from fruits and legumes and digging more into meat and dairy products

A tale of two meetings

The North East Council reduced to a farce at one. Gibberish over interlinking rivers at another

The forgotten class

Middle class-driven anti-corruption campaign does not acknowledge the poor

Japan at cross roads

If there is one country that has done quite well for itself in managing the natural environment throughout its history, it is Japan. But the run …

Identity crisis

Rightwing parties provide an illusion of certainty: the one thing that many Europeans reeling under new pressures are hungrily groping for

What is the Indian Social Forum all about?

Subcontinental drift

Aiding self

Book>> AID and Other Dirty Business by Giles Bolton Ebury Press 2008

Is the Babudom reformed?

British trade union Amicus builds an international alliance

Look back at the decade: Globalisation

A series to highlight crucial points in the second decade of the new millenium: Here's looking at how ultra-localism started to …

Quarry hunt

Contrasting sentiments marked the opening of the 19th World Mining Congress in New Delhi on November 1. President A P J Abdul Kalam warmly …

Stockholm+50: How do we prepare for the next half century

When we mark the 50th anniversary of the 1972 Stockholm conference, we need to discuss consumption and production in a globalised world

Celebrating WSF 2004

When 80,000 people talk it makes noise. So it wasn't unusual for the fourth World Social Forum (WSF) in Mumbai to be snidely called a huge '…

Look back at the decade: 2010-2019

Developments that shaped the world in the second decade of the new millenium