The concerns on health issues is grave in rural India. Though average amount spent on health in rural India (₹ 16,956) is at least 40% less than that of urban India (₹ 26,455) but number...
Bangladesh is one of the world’s impoverished nations. Yet, its economy has been growing rapidly over the past few years, thanks in no small part to its massive textile exports. But risks are looming on...
Gender inequality is deeply entrenched in all sectors of the Indian economy. Despite the active involvement of reformists and feminists, discrimination on the basis of gender has been observed in all spheres of human interest,...
Agriculture is one of the most labour intensive sectors and engages the largest workforce. Today, with the advancement of economies and expansion of job opportunities there is an evident shift towards urban or non-farm sector. As...
Europe’s biggest economy shrank 0.2 percent in the third quarter compared to the previous period. Economists are not worried and believe it is just a temporary slip. Germany’s gross domestic product (GDP) shrank 0.2 percent...
Hunger levels have been rising for three years in a row, states a new report by the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization. In 2017, Africa and South America saw the highest increase. One in nine...
Markets were the lead story in October and definitely not a happy one. Instability, Rotation, Fed tightening, Trumpian unorthodoxy, Italian recalcitrance, Brexit ineptitude and, of course, the all-conquering overvalued FAANGs: all of them have contributed...
We are in a new phase of playing games: first, to avoid being blamed for a damaging divorce and second, the purely domestic (parochial?) contest to gain the keys to 10 Downing Street. These games...
Warnings of volatility are issued too often and I try to avoid them. Nevertheless, looking at the London Stock Exchange’s Risers and Fallers these days can make one’s eyes water. Last week I wrote a piece...
With at least 135,000 people killed annually in road accidents, India has more traffic fatalities than anywhere in the world. Without coherent regulations, this number is set to grow. Murali Krishnan reports. In one of...
Interview on Trade Relationship between Bangladesh & India with Pratim Ranjan Bose, Chief of Bureau of The Hindu Business Line, Kolkata. Ezilarsan PKP: How Bangladesh and India can combine their synergies in the textile so we...
It is paradoxical that it is in a country like India that economists are so serioulsy taken the climate change subject head-on. Particularly in the equivalent of the Report on the Nation’s Accounts. The Economic...
