Climate change: alarming Africa-wide report predicts 30% drop in crop revenue, 50 million without water

African leaders need to be very proactive in their climate change and mitigation efforts

India GDP growth for festival quarter disappoints

Pandemic shadow prolongs on economy as central scales down full-year growth estimates

Measuring sustainability through inclusive wealth

United Nations Environment’s latest report suggests that the Inclusive Wealth Index (IWI), rather than GDP is better suited to capture a …

Agriculture sustains growth, but what about the whole year?

All sectors of Indian economy, except farm, remain below 2019-20 levels

Damage estimates for hurricanes like Dorian don’t capture the full cost of climate change-fueled disasters

Growth accounting incorporates the productive use of capital and innovation into the equation. The question we want to ask is what happens to GDP …

World to suffer $10 trillion loss by 2050 unless nature is saved: WWF report

However, annual global GDP will be 0.02 % higher by 2050 if conservation of nature is done

Two Karnatakas: North-south divide hampers state’s economic, social development

Concentration of development in a few urban centres of the south creates excessive pressure on the region’s resources, hampering the …

What Bhutan got right about happiness, and what other countries can learn

Bhutan has recorded an average growth in annual GDP of 7.5% since the early 1980s; poverty levels have declined from 36% in 2007 to 10% in 2019

COVID-19: Tanzania needs $1.1 billion support right away, says IMF

Current account deficit of the east-African country expected to widen to 4.5% of 2021-22 GDP    

Advance warnings

The agriculture sector is estimated to grow at 1.8 per cent in 2023-24—a steep decline from the 4 per cent growth in financial year 2022-…

Is India in a position to announce a target of net zero emissions by 2050?  

This has to be decided keeping into consideration the country’s national circumstances and the feasibility of achieving such a target

Cost of COVID-19 lockdown: Who bears the burden?

A curfew of three weeks requires more financial remedies, especially for the low-income groups

Basic income support in South Africa: Risks, rewards and what it will take

The money will be taken from employed citizens and the affluent

Tourism industry faced losses worth $2.6 trillion in 2020-2022

While tourism has rebounded, both tourist numbers and export revenues in 2022 remained 34% below 2019 levels

UP Assembly polls 2022: Why state’s ‘jobless growth’ decade will be a headache for new government

Trends over the decade indicate that the pace of economic growth is slow and not sufficient if UP wants to achieve the goal of becoming a trillion-…

Why the cost of mitigating climate change can’t be boiled down to one right number, despite some economists’ best attempts

Precise predictions raise the risk of conveying too much certainty in a constantly changing world

Climate change can wipe off 84% of Sudan GDP, warns report

The damage will reduce but remain significant even if global temperature rise is limited to 1.5°C

COVID-19 second wave: SBI slashes FY22 GDP growth estimate to 7.9%

India’s economic recovery will be ‘W-shaped’ instead of ‘V-shaped’ as was anticipated earlier, the bank said.  

Biden is inheriting a wrecked economy, but Democrats have a record of avoiding recession and reducing unemployment

Since Eisenhower assumed presidency in 1953, the economy measured by GDP, unemployment, inflation & recessions has done better …

Rising CO2 emissions may affect labour productivity in developing countries: Study

Agriculture, mining and quarrying, manufacturing and construction — sectors which account for 73 per cent of output in poor countries' are …

Worry for economy: Labour’s contribution to income keeps dipping

Income is being transferred from workers to capitalists, finds the latest UNCTAD report

Book Digest: Calls to action against climate change, air pollution and more

Role of technology to fight off COVID-19 pandemic to inevitability of climate crisis, DTE tracks new, contemporary books on environment and …

No more climate neutral

Climate change entering the realm of formal economic policy-making is an acceptance of the crisis and a warning

Geopolitical tensions can hit sub-Saharan Africa’s economic growth, warns IMF

Region could see 4% GDP contraction over 10 years

Heatwaves in India could soon break human survivability limit, says World Bank analysis

Poor, marginalised to be worst hit; Economic productivity to be jeopardised too