India’s divestment efforts could benefit from a ‘no new coal’ policy
India already has ambitious renewable energy plans, but its coal baggage and failure..
India already has ambitious renewable energy plans, but its coal baggage and failure..
Three years after discontinuing the Doing Business report, the World Bank Group is introducing a new corporate flagship publication called the Business Ready (B-READY) report.
India remains a low-middle-income country, and the bulk of the population ranks low compared to most countries in most indicators of conditions of life.
Political formations in India have generally come to accept the idea of economic transfers to the poor. The Congress made it a major plank in the recent Karnataka elections. Even the BJP, which favours...
Despite issuing an open letter communicating the significance of the NGFP summit, most leaders of the global north did not attend the event.
By all accounts, India is considered one of the most unequal countries in the world, and inequality has been on the rise in recent years.
Anirban Bhattacharya & Pranay Raj A Reserve Bank of India statement on June 8 has set off a raging debate. The bank has allowed for write-offs and compromise settlements for even frauds and wilful...
What Thomas Piketty shows us in A Brief History of Equality, with solid data over time, is that at the beginning of the 20th Century, direct taxes amounted to about 10% of the economy...
India’s Chief Economic Advisor (CEA) Anantha Nageswaran’s assertion last a few days back as reported by newspapers, that the concept of Universal Basic Income (UBI) was not necessary for India and ‘it may create...
The UN’s second round of International Negotiating Committee (INC-2) meetings for a global plastics pollution treaty ended in frustration last week after half of the five-day event was spent re-debating procedural rules, such as...
That child malnutrition levels in India are high and slow to improve, even when compared with neighbouring countries such as Bangladesh, does not need belabouring.
मध्य प्रदेश के गोरखपुर गांव में स्थित झाबुआ थर्मल पावर प्लांट से निकलने वाली राख आम लोगों के जीवन में जहर घोल रही है। क्षेत्र में विकास और रोजगार का वादा करने वाला यह...
About a decade ago, in 2013, the Planning Commission constituted the “Task Force on Waste-to-Energy” to identify technically feasible, financially affordable and environmentally sound processing and disposal technologies for municipal solid waste in India....
Inequality in India is at obscene levels. While still home to a very large number of people living in destitution, the number of dollar billionaires in India increased from one in the mid-1990s to...
In another week, on June 2, Ajay Banga will take over as the 14th president of the World Bank Group, the all-men’s club, except for Kristalina Georgieva, who had become World Bank’s acting president...