Simply Put: India 2024

Key takeaways from the Interim Budget Financial Year 2024-25

Budget 2024 lays special emphasis on youth, women, the poor and farmers and the tax rates remain unchanged. But inflation remains a concern

Global economy’s weakest half-decade performance in 30 years likely by end of 2024, warns World Bank

Calls for $2.4 trillion increase in investment by developing countries for course correction

DTE Coverage of Abu Dhabi WTO meet

Negotiations on fisheries “came close” to a deal but one or two or two matters could not be reached

Simply Put: 70-hour workweek

Simply Put: Unreal gains

Making jugaad a global success

Frugal innovation is the new concept that companies are adopting to take technology to developing countries

How much did Interim Budget 2024 allocate to different central schemes

Down To Earth plots scheme allocation in the last budget before the general elections on data cards

DTE Coverage: How green was Union Budget 2024-25

Read Down To Earth’s coverage about key insights from the last budget before poll season

Debunking K-shaped recovery: Why the SBI’s new report gets it all wrong about India’s economic growth

The research of SBI is not representative of the Indian economy; it also pedals a newly-destined ‘narrative’

Argentina’s economic crisis: Whoever wins presidential election is on a collision course with the IMF

Argentina is heading to the polls on October 22 for a presidential election dominated by another profound economic crisis

Study charts indirect economic losses due to climate change-induced supply disruptions, calls for collaboration

India is likely to be affected directly by high temperatures and indirectly due to close links with countries severely impacted by heat stress

How much did Interim Budget 2024 allocate to different Union ministries

Down To Earth plots ministerial allocation and compares it with the amount allocated in the previous budget

Simply Put: Income Tax 2024

Book excerpt: How the Suez canal was built

Bob Brier’s 2022 book sheds light on the role played by Bonaparte and his rivals, the British in one of the most important human-made …

Delhi’s electronic bazaars are one of the city’s last non-elite commercial spaces

As dynamic public spaces, these bazaars are invaluable

A greenwash?

Will the Centre's first-of-its-kind Green Credit Programme Implementation Rules 2023 be a winner? 

New threads

Traditional Ikat weavers of Odisha mobilise into a company to improve incomes and lives

WTO talks end with no consensus on agriculture support

Negotiations on fisheries “came close” to a deal but one or two or two matters could not be reached

Red Sea crisis: Suez Canal is not the only ‘choke point’ that threatens to disrupt global supply chains

Choke points are narrow parts of main trade lanes, usually straits or canals

Book Excerpt: Of ‘King Cotton’ and Vidarbha

How the path dependencies in the cotton economy crossed the paths of Vidarbha, Britain, and the American South is a fascinating story

Over 69 million children live in poverty in 40 of the world’s richest countries: UNICEF

Migration, race and ethnicity drives inequalities in child poverty risks in these countries, researchers find

AAD2024: Is there enough action to combat climate change? Conversation with Nitin Desai

Economist who popularised “sustainable development”, discusses the political consensus during the Rio Summit and the future …

What’s behind the collapse in the price of nickel and how can the industry survive?

Last Friday his government added nickel to the official Critical Minerals List

Interim Budget 2024: Who got how much

Down To Earth plots the allotment for various ministries in the last budget before the general elections