Infant mortality, youth unemployment among top exclusion factors in North Africa

Political instability and conflict have contributed significantly to exacerbate inequalities among some regions

Karnataka Polls 2023: ‘Common man’ issues like LPG, poverty, unemployment cost BJP its southern bastion  

Opposition Congress’ strategy of targeting the incumbent for not performing on governance issues pays off

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 …

Has Dharavi Model made us lose sight of its real problems

COVID-19 pandemic will pass one day. But what about hunger, unemployment, loss of education and stigma

Congress manifesto promises jobs, welfare steps

Five focus areas include: Unemployment, poverty, farm distress, access to quality education and healthcare

Human development index: India climbs one spot to 130

Rising economic inequalities and wide gender gap don’t let India achieve a faster ascent among 189 countries

Migration in India: A shift in agenda

Migration is an adaptation strategy for communities vulnerable to climate change impacts. Governments should plan for such demographic shifts

Young and jobless

Across the globe, unemployment is growing three times faster among youngsters than among those above 24 years of age

Does poverty trigger extremism?

Two recent developments could precipitate a global debate on whether poverty triggers extremism

The orphans of the Fourth Revolution

With an estimated 85 million jobs to be lost to automation by 2025, the development divide is set to deepen

NITI Aayog meeting: PM finally comes around to the existence of water, agrarian crises

These issues existed before elections and persist now. Difference: nobody from the government was owning it up and now they are recognising the …

Trump calls Paris Agreement ‘unfair’, but how fair is his claim?

Trump’s speech on withdrawing from climate deal punctuated by half-truths and exaggerations

Poor health to food insecurity

Not only low income levels, but also adults suffering from chronic diseases adversely impact a household’s food security

We need global regulation for corporations

Eva Joly, EU parliamentarian from the French Green Party, is tipped to be the Presidential candidate of the Greens in the 2012 French …

A job not done

As multiple states launch urban employment guarantee schemes, the need for a Central Act similar to MGNREGA becomes stronger

Union Budget 2022-23: What India really needs

The consensus among economists and experts: The large but voiceless vulnerable sections need government protection and they need it now.

Modi and irrational exuberance

India's youth is pinning its hopes of jobs on the development promise of Modi. Can he deliver?

Hunger in South Africa: Study shows one in five are at risk

Social inequalities are well documented in South Africa, but not enough is known about the link between social vulnerability and food insecurity …

Industrial blackmail!

Having done precious little to clean up its polluting act in the past 30 years, a Kerala factory is indirectly blackmailing the state government …

Two-thirds of migrant workers still don’t have access to government ration: Survey

The survey also reveals several other shocking facts that fly in the face of government claims on migrants

Wages of fear: How did COVID-19 geographic shift affect MGNREGA implementation?

The understanding should be part of India’s contingency plan to support rural livelihoods in the event of a third wave of the pandemic

As told to Parliament (December 13, 2022): 130 sq km of forest land set to be diverted in Great Nicobar Island

Mitigation measures have been proposed for the ‘sustainable development’ projects

COVID-19 labour laws dilution: ‘Neo-liberal character has eroded welfare state’

We have moved back to the 19th century in regard to labour laws, says labour economist KR Shyam Sundar

Grim news on jobs front for women

About nine million women went out of the job market in the rural areas between 2009-10 and 2011-12, a grim facet of the employment crisis in …

COVID-19 pandemic may drive 40-60 mln to extreme poverty: UNCTAD report

Families will be pushed deeper into poverty as the current employment decline is biggest since World War II, according to the report