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Despite the bottom half of the carbon pyramid facing the unequal impact of climate change, India’s current climate policies continue to favour the t
Online civic life across developing and developed countries has been adversely affected, with serious consequences to the offline world.
China has drawn worldwide attention in recent years for its rapid digitalisation, which happens to overlap with the three focul points of Digital Indi
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.
Educating girls helps foster a more prosperous, equitable, and empowered India
Gender empowerment and food security are deeply interconnected, with profound implications for achieving sustainable development goals
The Brazilian economy is in a new period of transition. Its challenges today are of tax incentives in order to steer foreign investments towards the domestic shores and curbing rising inequality and urban-rural divide.
There has been a large decline in the labour force participation of women.
The coming decade requires an urgent effort toward the establishment of mechanisms that ensures an egalitarian re-distribution of the tech-revolution
To reduce inequality of income, the government should increase taxes rather than reduce taxes.
Empirical data implies that increase in the income of lower income group directly translates into an increase in consumption. Therefore, the governmen
India’s leap into the services and IT sector without first going through the appropriate growth models and methods of educating and skilling its ent
There is a lot of disturbing news regarding the Indian economy today which is likely to spoil the outlook for 2012. One of them is regarding the rise in inequality.
The new normal would be about reinventing the realms. How would the cities be further planned and developed in the future?
India's new GDP data speaks of robust growth (6.9%) rather than of policy paralysis and industrial decline in 2013-14. But even Chief Economic Advisor Arvind Subramanian is not convinced by the new data. Because, other indicators do not seem to corroborate the high rate of growth, especially when imports actually declined last year.
High inequality is likely to undermine democracy, promote corruption and cronyism. Reduction of inequality on the other hand will lead to faster reduc
It is crucial that we tell our daughters of the countless armies of women who have raised their voices, who have raged, and fought, and sung.
Developing clear strategies can improve gender equality, human rights, and women-centred care in The Gambia.
As women bear the brunt of the rising income inequality, the need for a positive policy change has become even more pronounced
अलग अलग क्षेत्रों में महिलाओं और पुरुषों के बीच अंतर को प�
सच ये है की एक तरफ ये गिरफ्तारियां कमज़ोर होती सिविल लिबर्टी और मौलिक अधिकारों की मिसाल है, आज़ाद आवाज़ के दमन की कोशिश है, तो सच ये भी है की नक्सल्वाद अपराध है, नक्सली हिंसा भी ह�
समानतेच्या दिशेने लक्षणीय प्रगती करत असतानाही, आपल्या द�
On 1 February, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will make her most important political economy speech
India’s commitments to international agreements towards gender equality show the country’s tremendous potential to make crucial advances in femini
Our economic model is putting unsustainable pressures on our planetary boundaries. We can’t afford to continue ignoring how economic growth is gener
Mitigating the huge divide between the rich and the poor is a major challenge for the government as it will require a big increase in public investmen
In the coming budget, concrete ideas of increasing women’s participation in the workforce should be included. There has to be an increased allocatio
Can we achieve gender equality when sexual violence is still a weapon of war?
In the attempt to flatten the COVID19 curve, women’s equality and physical and mental health seems to have suffered a collateral damage.
India’s female workforce participation remains paltry and calls for an urgent review of India’s policies and schemes related to women’s empowerm
The zero sum game witnessed during this pandemic has deepened cleavages and widened inequality across the world
The data reveals clear inequality in maternal health across parliamentary constituencies in terms of maternal mortality rate and the uptake of service
With Awami League winning the 4th consecutive term, this re-election opens up interesting implications for the country’s economic future
India has the potential to emerge as a champion of the WPS agenda — it needs to achieve greater gender equality in domestic security as well.
While well-established indices have been crucial in assessing advancements in gender equality, these methodologies may present an incomplete picture
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
In the 'Bhullar case', the Supreme Court could now be construed to have applied the 'reasonable restriction' theory in the larger application of Article 14 of the Constitution, promising 'equality before law and the equal protection of the laws'.
Severe inequality in the allocation of public finance is a primary reason for rural impoverishment.
Due to unprecedented global crises, progress in bridging the gender divide has stagnated
