‘China growth model cannot be universal’

Wen Teijun, dean of Renim University in Beijing, has been documenting the world's agrarian history and turmoils. He initiated the New Rural …

After Copenhagen: What's on the Agenda? (II)

The Centre for Science and Environment recently held a climate change media workshop to brief South Asian journalists on the politics of …

‘Green growth’ can help African countries address socio-economic inequalities: Report

Green growth can address inequity through the creation of decent jobs, better provision of basic services, improvement of air quality and …

Unemployment just below 8%, show latest CMIE figures

The business information company's portal says unemployment for February was 7.9% whereas Reuters has reported it at 7.78%

Is Chandrababu’s call for more children an indirect push for Amaravati megacity

Andhra chief minister's new-found concern about declining population may have something to do with his plans for a grand new capital city

China's 'Silk Road urbanism' is changing cities from London to Kampala – can locals keep control?

China’s ambition to reshape the world economy has sparked massive infrastructure projects spanning all the way from Western Europe to East …

Sustainable agriculture can be key to reducing youth migration in Africa

Agriculture is Africa’s largest employer and a possible solution to its migration problem

Does poverty trigger extremism?

Two recent developments could precipitate a global debate on whether poverty triggers extremism

Big ideas for sustaining the Earth

Far-reaching change in the global economic system is called for  if we are to save our planet

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 …

Kenya’s GDP contracted 0.3% in 2020, courtesy COVID-19: Economic Survey

The Government of Kenya has recognised the information, communications and technology sector as a key contributor to the country’s GDP

The government needs to midwife Indian agriculture to an organic revolution

Instead of making it difficult for the organic farmers, government should devise methods to reduce the complexity of the certification process

India’s first robotic telescope opens its eyes to the universe

The fully robotic optical research telescope is designed to capture cosmic events occurring in timescales much shorter than light years – …

The minuscule system of pricing

First, a farmer must sell the produce at a price wrongly discounted by unscientific calculation. Second, an unholy nexus of many players pushes …

It is a global recession with economic growth among lowest in four decades

Inequalities, lack of uniform growth among countries making global economic recovery difficult, shows UN’s Trade and Development …

Global growth to slow in 2023, trade to grow at less than a third the pace before pandemic: World Bank

Growth projections for 70% emerging markets & developing countries downgraded  

Kenya needs to grow more food: A focus on how to irrigate its vast dry areas is key

Only 19% of the area of Kenya officially assessed for irrigation has been developed

Look back at the decade: Unemployment

Outtake from the second decade of the new millemium: India desperately needs to avail jobs for its ever increasing youth population

Americas has 13% of world population, but exploits quarter of global natural resources

As much as 65 per cent of Americas’ natural resources are not available to it anymore

Reverse the learning

Continuous economic growth is an illusion. Adivasi economics may be the only hope for India's future

Ten asks for the First 100 Days of New Government

Growth needs to inclusive and it needs to happen in a way that rights of communities and rights of future generations are not lost

Mass poverty is back in India

After 45 years, the world’s fastest poverty-reducing country adds the maximum poor in a year  

Day temperature, not daylight, influences beans flowering: study

The findings of Bengaluru-based researchers may help farmers plant the right varieties to optimise yields

‘Totalitarian movements are self-destructive’

The reason socialist awareness is not possible in the 21st century is that the middle class in India in the 60s was primarily dominated by the …

Fish stocks in Asia-Pacific to be over by 2048

Economic growth is leading to the decline of biodiversity, says a report released in Colombia