-Foundation of Agrarian Studies An influential section of Sri Lankan agricultural economists and scientists has deplored the recent course change in the country’s agricultural policy made by the Gotabaya Rajapaksa government. The decision by the government to ban the use and import of chemical fertilisers and pesticides in pursuit of a “100 per cent organic food producer” status for Sri Lanka has already had disastrous consequences for the economy of the...

-TheNewsMinute.com One highly criticised Tamil Nadu government scheme was giving colour TV sets to households. While it was derided as a ‘freebie’, research has proved otherwise, write Dharanidharan Sivagnanaselvam and Bethanavel Kuppusamy. In a stratified society such as India trickle down Economics do not work. Even in a society such as the US, which has a much lower stratification compared to India, trickle down Economics has not worked well. Historically, India has...

-Scroll.in Caste and religious identity have to be explicitly accounted for if the high burden of chronic malnourishment in India is to be addressed. There are few more glaring holes in the Indian development story than child health and nutrition. India has one of the highest rates of child stunting in the world: more than a third of its children under five years are short enough for their age to be counted as...

The pandemic's first wave had a devastating impact on the livelihoods of rural workers in Bihar (including the self-employed) last year, according to a survey based research, jointly done by economists from Centre for Development Economics and Sustainability at Monash University, Australia and the New Delhi-based Institute for Human Development. A recent press note issued by the authors of the study shows that almost 94.4 percent of the households participating...

-PTI/ The Hindu Tanveer Ahmad Khan did primary schooling from Government Primary School, Kund, and later from Government High School Waltengoo, officials said Tanveer Ahmad Khan, a farmer’s son from Kulgam district of Jammu and Kashmir, has brought laurels to the Union Territory by securing the second rank in the prestigious Indian Economic Services (IES) examination conducted by the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC). Hailing from the remote Nigeenpora Kund village — about...