Children: victims of war and poverty

Double trouble

Widespread disagreement may mar WSSD

Street smart

Karnataka vendors take steps to protect their interests

India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme put on hold

Employment guarantee scheme brought to an abrupt halt

Extracts from 'Red Sun, Travels in Naxal Country'

Extracts from Red Sun, Travels in Naxal Country by Sudeep Chakravarty....

Women’s Day 2024: Investing in women most effective way to accelerate growth, says UN Women

1 in every 10 women globally lives in extreme poverty; war & crisis eroding decades of progress in gender equality

Venezuela: starved and stifled

As people hunt animals from zoos to feed themselves, the President, accused of extrajudicial executions, is busy blaming the US and the …

Dear Minister, here is proof India’s children suffered during COVID-19 lockdown

Accepting that there was a great disruption in the lives of Indian children will pave the way to make rectification measures more effective

Everyone exposed to shock waves of war; largest cost-of-living crisis: UN

In South Asia, more than 0.5 billion affected by Russia-Ukraine war’s impacts on food, finance 

Indian-origin economist in trio selected for 2019 Economics Nobel

Mumbai-born Abhijit Banerjee, wife Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer won the prize for their approach to fight global poverty 

Highlights of Sunita Narain’s speech at IDS Conference in UK

According to her, the world cannot succeed in environmental management unless we achieve inclusive economic growth

Farmers demand law for guaranteed income

Participants voice concern on drought, farmers' suicide and water conservation, among other issues

Government quells homestead land rights protest with yet another assurance

Activists have been demanding that the land reforms Bill be brought in Parliament since 2012

Eco-links

India's first Human Development Report needs to look beyond numbers at ecology-poverty linkages

CNG Verdict: A Legal Debate

No matter how one looks at the Supreme Court's April 5 ruling on air pollution in Delhi, it is undoubtedly a milestone in Indian judicial history.…

Book review: Panchayats, democracy and development

In 1992 the Indian Parliament approved of the 73rd constitutional amendment, which made it mandatory for state governments to devolve powers to …

Africa can learn from Kenya’s renewable energy success, says Kenyan cabinet secretary

Davis Chirchir, Kenya’s Cabinet Secretary for Energy and Petroleum, speaks on the significant progress made by the country on the …

Africa’s research ecosystem needs a culture of mentoring

Mentoring can help build the confidence of young scholars, thereby reducing likelihood of brain drain from the region

Creative accounting, window dressing apart Centre's COVID-19 relief package 0.5% of GDP: Jean Drèze

The Centre announced a relief package recently and a few other interim measures after the 21-day nationwide lockdown to combat COVID-19 left …

'Sustainable agriculture paramount to eradicate extreme poverty, hunger'

FAO chief says while past developments in agriculture have led to major improvements in productivity, “progress has been uneven” and …

Report places rural transformation at the heart of economic development

IFAD report bats for emphasis on agriculture and employment to reduce rural poverty

Have some clothes to shed

If governments and multilateral organisations censor critical data on development, imagine how banal is our measurement of progress and growth

Reflection in a pond

As urban residents switch to municipal water, the labour class struggles with disappearing ponds, their main water source. Sorit Gupto …

Employment schemes fail to ease rural poverty

The government's employment generation schemes, laudable though they may be, have yet to achieve their goals. Not involving intended …