Numbers to the rescue

Tuesday 20 October '09

Popular perception of NREGA’s performance is as much a victim of unscrupulous sarpanchs, block and village officials and local...

The other green tech

Saturday 29 August '09

How we should use technology to drought-proof our farms....

Warmed-over inequalities

Thursday 30 July '09

A global emissions trading scheme will skew development, without a substantial tech-transfer component

Bang for your buck

Saturday 18 July '09

How to spend money that’s shifting from aid to investment....

Costlier food, reformed farms

Thursday 7 August '08

A recent Asian Development Bank report entitled “Food Prices and Inflation in Developing Asia: Is Poverty Reduction Coming to an End?

The real deprivation

Saturday 29 March '08

John Stuart Mill’s dictum “No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental...

Beyond agriculture

Thursday 20 December '07

The World Development Report 2008 — Agriculture for Development, released by the World Bank...