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Outcry of the young
12 Sept 2024 9:07 PM ISTIn the wake of stark economic insecurity, characterised by widespread unemployment, the record youth population across the globe is venting out its...
Boomeranged!
6 Jun 2024 6:47 PM ISTNDA’s performance on the most important issues of unemployment, price rise, and dipping income didn’t reflect its ‘vocal for local’ slogan which...
No more ‘neutral’
23 April 2024 8:53 PM ISTOwing to the impact of erratic weather on food prices, climate change can potentially impact inflation, posing risks to economic stability and poverty...
Capitalising on potential
18 April 2024 8:04 PM ISTIndia will have the demographic dividend for another decade. It takes massive skill update to translate this advantage into a development bonanza
Indicator of distress?
1 April 2024 8:57 PM ISTThe India Employment Report 2024 by the ILO says the COVID-19 pandemic reversed a national employment transition from farm to non-farm sectors as the...
Denying the evident?
25 Jan 2024 6:14 PM ISTA research by SBI, which aims to debunk K-shaped recovery claims, is not representative of the Indian economy; it also pedals a newly-destined...
A global concern
21 Dec 2023 5:49 PM ISTIt is time poverty alleviation policies and programmes get child-centric, to lay a solid foundation for a future generation that is healthy and...
The profit paradox
12 Oct 2023 6:14 PM ISTThe volatility in food commodities prices in last few years have coincided with global food traders reporting record profits, necessitating the need...
An emerging menace
21 Nov 2022 8:24 PM ISTClimate change-induced disasters are creating a new dynamic of migration that will not be limited to a country's borders
Veil of ignorance
23 Aug 2022 8:14 PM ISTIndia’s data deficiency, be it around poverty or unemployment, is a major impediment to fulfilment of tall promises of her growth and prosperity
An immediate necessity
8 July 2022 10:00 PM ISTThe world’s hunger clock has regressed back to 2015 when the global community had resolved to get good food to all plates by 2030
Irony of fortunes
31 May 2022 7:12 PM ISTWorsening plight of the poor is no more an isolated phenomenon — it’s the cost the world is paying for the growing riches of a selected few