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Climate change
Population and Development Commission: ‘Perfect Storm’ of Crises Take Shape
Opening its fifty-fifth session under the theme ‘Population and sustainable development, in particular sustained and inclusive economic growth,’ marks success for a body that...
Civil society
Tackling the Pandemic of Inequality in Asia and the Pacific
Amid continuing uncertainty over when the pandemic will finally be behind us, the one certainty for the region’s policymakers is that the benefits of...
Governance
Do we Really Need a World Ranking to Measure Happiness?
The idea of a ranking on happiness risks defeating the purpose of the gigantic and noble effort of better understanding how we can be...
Civil society
Open Data Advocates Urge International Energy Agency for Free and Open Access to Data
The authors of the letter argue that open data can provide a wide range of benefits, including access to data for some of the...
Education
A Budget that Looks Too Far Into the Future
Social development expenditure and the needs of the people – both prior to COVID-19 but more so during and after the second wave, have...
Children
Impact of Lost Earnings due to COVID-19 to last for Generations says New Report
Although households with three or more children were the most likely to experience a loss of income, they were also most likely to receive...
Agriculture
Budget 2022: Disappointment for social sector
The total union budget expenditure as a proportion of the GDP has declined to 15.3 per cent in 2021-22 from 16.2 per cent in...
Civil society
Inequality doesn’t kill. Destitution kills.
From the perspectives of developmental economics, economic equality is not the greatest of virtues; neither is economic inequality the worst of vices.
By Anuj Kumar...
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Two Challenges Before Microfinance
The rate of interest charged by microfinance institutions is high enough not to allow microfinance to bring about any...
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Quakes Do Not Kill People, Bad Buildings Do
The infrastructure surge in the geologically fragile Himalayas is putting people at risk. So are populations in the alluvial...
Human Society is Making the Mistake of Forgetting the Importance of Forests: President Droupadi Murmu
President Droupadi Murmu said that she was confident that the officers of the Indian Forest Service had become completely...
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Two Challenges Before Microfinance
The rate of interest charged by microfinance institutions is...
Quakes Do Not Kill People, Bad Buildings Do
The infrastructure surge in the geologically fragile Himalayas is...
