Op-Eds

Global action. A body, akin to WTO, which can enforce rules to govern multilateral action on climate change is the need of the hour. Ahead of the first global stock take on climate action, due to take place at COP28 in Dubai, a new report released by the United Nations on November 14has reiterated the...   Read More

In her 2009 book Dead Aid, Zambian economist Dambisa Moyo probes why Africa trails in economic prosperity compared to other emerging nations. Global narratives often overlook the need for creative, transformative and continent-specific changes. One such area is Africa’s financial sector. As a pivotal player in Africa’s development, the sector, unfortunately, has been unable to...   Read More

Work-life. There is no consensus on the optimum weekly work hours. But working hours must be linked to productivity and output Arriving at an optimum and acceptable work hours has been a continuing debate in labour and employment discourse and we are far from a consensus. The debate was triggered again when recently Infosys co-founder...   Read More

Fish contributes to ensuring domestic food and nutritional security and India registered a per capita yearly consumption of over 13 kg in 2022-23. In addition, more varieties of fish are available for consumption by households through expanding market networks. However, Indian consumption is still below the international standard. Augmenting the level of consumption is a...   Read More

E-vehicle adoption needs changes in building bye-laws and huge charging infra. Complementing with biofuels is pragmatic. Given that vehicles are the biggest culprits for polluting Delhi, the government has launched a stringent drive against polluting vehicles this year, through measures such as banning petrol and diesel vehicles older than 15 years and 10 years, respectively;...   Read More

The opening up of the Chattogram Port for transit and transhipment of goods and allowing regular movement is a powerful testimony of the India-Bangladesh partnership. The decision taken by the taxation authority of Bangladesh to issue a Permanent Standing Order for the operationalisation of the Chittagong port for the transit of Indian goods was a...   Read More

India must adopt a holistic gender strategy consisting of fiscal, administrative, and regulatory measures, combined with public messaging and mindset changes. Globally, the average workforce participation is 50 per cent for women and 80 per cent for men. In India, the corresponding ratio is similar for men, but strikingly lower for women, at under 30...   Read More

Gender ideologies often prompt couples to assign women to take over extra family duties while men remain free to concentrate on their careers. When women were missing from the labour force, that was because they were home caring for children; when they were paid less than men, that was because they had lower education than...   Read More

As we marked the International Day of the Girl Child on October 11, it may be apt to ruminate about two other festivals soon to be widely celebrated across India—Durga Puja, when obeisance is paid to Maa Durga, the goddess of power and strength, and Diwali, when Goddess Lakshmi is worshipped as the harbinger of...   Read More

The real growth rate of the Indian economy in the April-June quarter of 2023-24 (Q1, FY24), according to the latest data released by the Central Statistical Office (CSO), stood at 7.8 per cent. Market economists embraced this data as reflective of their own projections, and in line with their consensus forecast. After factoring in the...   Read More