SDG commitments need financing, local monitoring: NITI Aayog
The National Indicator Framework, which monitors SDGs at the national level, did not include indicators for 36 out of the 169 targets, pointed …
India’s health expenditure down to 3.2% of GDP in 2018-19
National Health Accounts report shows out-of-pocket expenses down, but still significantly higher than global average
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
India still scores low in human development in UNDP report
It is ranked at 136 along with Equatorial Guinea while Sri Lanka strides ahead
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
Budget through the years post liberalisation
Run up to Budget 2012-13
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