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How to spot a farmer suicide

Maharashtra makes change after 4,000 families denied aid

Tax the rich and help the poor survive

Aid for alleviation

Indebted forever

In Focus

No editorial freedom in Zimbabwe

Private sector not dependable to achieve SDGs: UNCTAD

Its contribution to developing countries’ debt increases to 139% of GDP in 2017 from 79% in 2008

Climate ambition requires reform of current financial system: CSE report

Current form of financing is adding burden on developing countries, CSE and other experts discuss at webinar

Pre-COVID-19 debt crisis has aggravated in poorest countries after pandemic: World Bank

G20 members not keen to extend COVID-19 debt relief for poorest countries

Whose debt is it

Many African nations are defaulting on payment of loans they have utilised for funding climate-resilient infrastructure

Yogi's gift to Uttar Pradesh farmers: loan waiver, higher MSP, guaranteed procurement

The decision comes as a huge relief for about 20 million small and marginal farmers

Strong medicine

A waiver to common sense

Andhra Pradesh passes microfinance Act

Leg up for green bonds amid record sustainable debt in 2020

Sustainable debt worth $732 billion issued globally; $305 billion of that in green bonds

Oxfam takes IMF, World Bank to task

British aid agency Oxfam has criticised the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund for their economic policies in sub-Saharan Africa.

Debt-burdened Indonesia bows to World Bank

Large foreign debts have forced Indonesia to give in to World Bank pressure and adopt structural economic changes.

Debt in Eastern Africa rising rapidly, but remains manageable

An additional US$600 billion is needed in Africa every year until 2030 in order to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals

Capital labour rush

A drought-like condition at home and long-term employment opportunity in Amaravati, the new capital of Andhra Pradesh, are fuelling migration …

Starve a child to repay a debt

External debt has proved an albatross around the neck of African nations. At least two-thirds of their total debt will have to be written off if …

Dutch to pay ecological debts

The Netherlands is negotiating with Bhutan, Costa Rica and Benin a long-term reciprocal development treaty that is based on Dutch assumption that …

Avartansheel Kheti changing lives with periodic farming

The purely organic method of growing food involves dividing the land into zones for cereal crops, vegetables, fruiting trees and animal husbandry

Theatre new engagement for Vidarbha folks

Three things scientists don’t know about women farmers and climate change but really should

Ensuring climate solutions work for both women & men farmers should be high priority at Bonn Climate Change Conference