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Internet usage across the world and networks has risen up to 80%. Will the internet be able to handle the growing pressures, growing traffic and expe
In India, expenditure on energy grew faster than expenditure on food and non-food expenditure. This could either mean energy prices increased or that
The changes brought to the Consumption Expenditure Survey have raised concerns over comparability with previous rounds of surveys
By studying India’s consumption patterns over time, effective policies can be undertaken to boost India’s economic growth
Natural gas consumption in India has fallen due to reduction in domestic gas availability.
SDGs are not enough for global sustainability. OECD countries need to adopt Sustainable Consumption Goals (SCGs).
One of the less debated causes of growing greenhouse gases is the increasing global meat consumption.
Improving the way food is produced — and also consumed — will go a long way towards addressing global warming.
Despite having among the largest coal reserves in the world, India lags far behind in consumption. The average Indian's coal consumption is around 20% that of the US citizen, and 34% of the average OECD citizen.
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It is for time to tell whether the suggested reforms will lead India to play a prominent role in the post-pandemic economic recovery.
One thing is pretty sure from the manifestos. Political parties are more interested in showing the carrots that are readily saleable to their electora
Will the increase in energy consumption of the poor masses for cooling and other energy services help them adapt to a warmer world or contribute to a
Circular economic model of growth offers India the roadmap for making ecological and economic welfare complement and sustain each other.
This paper presents a status report of the BRICS nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) on two crucial development parameters—inequality and poverty—that have a significant bearing on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs; especially SDG-1 and SDG-10). The paper tracks the origins and movements of absolute and relative poverty, and income and wealth inequality in the BRICS economies over time, highlights the associated cha
Trudeau and his Liberal Party raised hopes by pursuing progressive social, economic policies such as legalising the consumption of marijuana for recre
The next big question in modelling consumer behaviour is: Will habits formed during the crises continue, or will people return to their old routines o
Coal consumption sees a resurgence as countries attempt to balance between increasing demands for energy and slow supply of renewables. A new challeng
Can Xi continue to promise food security despite increased consumption, aging rural population, rapid urbanisation, and climate changes?
To ride the next wave of innovation, India needs its own strategy. Its agenda for 2018 should be to leverage the hundreds of millions it brought onlin
Even today, renewable energy sources definitely cannot replace fossil fuel that is getting scarce over time. Given this theoretical underpinning, why do we have a negative price for crude oil?
Climate change is impacting data centres that are vital for a country's digital development. It is critical, therefore, for data centre strategies to
This year’s World Environment Day is aiming to steer individuals, corporations, and governments towards the shared vision of reducing plastic produc
The last few decades have witnessed a rise in the use and accumulation of data, often called ‘the oil of the 21st century’. Meanwhile, existing laws and regulations are inadequate in dealing with these changing data consumption patterns; this is true for India. Wrongdoings by tech companies can often go unpunished, including predatory pricing, abuse of dominance, and exclusionary conduct. This brief discusses India’s antitrust laws and regu
India’s key energy problem is the inadequate effective demand for energy, especially from poor rural households in India and an underdeveloped marke
Now in the fourth phase, China is rebalancing by emphasising consumption and promoting an innovation-based economy. This is a forty year timespan, not the half-decade process under Mao.
Despite substantial policy changes, the discom sector has not improved. Could this be chalked up to inefficiency or should political interventions be
Even though the government seems to be addressing concerns ailing the economy, the slowdown seems to be deeper than what the numbers suggest.
The problems India is facing are hard to solve in the short term and only incremental changes can be undertaken in the five-year term of any government at the Centre. As per an Oxfam survey, India is a highly unequal country on all counts. There are inequalities in wealth, income and consumption as well as structural inequalities of opportunity, region and social groups.
This year’s survey encompasses the massive changes that the country has had to go through over the decades in the long term as well as through the p
Distributed production and consumption of RE by households and industries, primarily using solar photovoltaic (PV) systems, is projected as a potential driver of RE generation and consumption but challenges remain
The week’s updates from the energy sector.
Petroleum consumption for the year was recorded the lowest in August.
Despite recent waivers, continuing the withdrawal of FPIs from the Indian economy highlights the perils of an uninsulated capital market in India.
Trends in consumption growth in the last two decades suggest that IEA’s expectation of a decline in demand for petrol in India on account of growth
It is important to not only bridge the demand gap for an optimal transition to green growth, but also create appropriate legal frameworks to actualise
Incorporating gender focus in electrification programmes is important as women and men have different energy needs.
Dialling down the tax and public debt-driven, active industrial policy model could greenlight private demand-led consumption and private investment-le
The country has been grappling with low consumption demand for quite some time and the loss of livelihoods for the migrant workers would undoubtedly aggravate the problem
The global shift in coal consumption towards Asia, led by China and India, signifies a looming peak in coal demand by the early 2030s.
Nearly half of Indian households still use biomass for cooking. A credible transition to LPG or equivalent cooking fuels will come only when household
