The IT veteran said money is not the primary resource for success, innovation and invention.

MGNREGA is the government’s flagship rural job guarantee scheme. It guarantees 100 days of work a year to every rural household. It aims to...

Rohini Pande believes powerful interventions can strengthen women wanting to work.

Governments across the world have failed to prevent a hunger crisis that is reaching monumental proportions. Globally, as many as 132 milli...

The government can turn COVID-19 crisis into an opportunity by investing in healthcare, and it should also pursue making all the cities slu...

Only a subset of farmers get loans, It often goes to the best connected not most poorly off, said Rajan.

Rajan said that there are some Indians who are doing very well while others are falling behind.

Noting that ambient air pollution alone may cost India more than USD 0.5 trillion per year, it said it is causing hundreds of millions of p...

Indians would live for about four years longer on an average if the country meets the WHO's air quality standards, according to a new study...

Study was jointly conducted by researchers at Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago & Evidence for Policy Design group at Ha...

India's high air pollution, ranked by the WHO among the worst in the world, is adversely impacting the lifespans of its citizens, reducing ...

We welcome the tabling of a National Food Security Bill in the Lok Sabha as an important step towards the elimination of hunger and undernu...

Duflo is the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

More than two decades of research is remarkably consistent in showing large illegal diversions of subsidised grains to the open market.