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This blog takes a look at the varied effectiveness of MGNREGA, a rural employment scheme. It focuses on India’s agriculture sector as a vehicle for...

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This article is a perspective on why India needs a circular economic model if it is to continue growing as an economy. It also discusses the...

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In this podcast episode, economic policy, which affects each of us is discussed. Economics is a sphere of life that most of us are quite unaware of as...

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Helena Norberg-Hodge outlines how localising economic activity could halt ecological breakdown.

Among environmental activists and ordinary citizens...

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Poverty, climate change, the erosion of democracy, an epidemic of depression – these and other global crises are symptoms of a far bigger systemic...

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The localization of economic activity can be a “solution multiplier” for many of the dire problems that confront the planet today, writes Helena...

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The remote region of Ladakh, in northern India, seemed idyllic at first, recalled Helena Norberg-Hodge of her first visit to the area in 1975. She...

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Is the sharing economy the first part of a New Economic Paradigm or is it capitalism’s latest trick to survive at all costs? Arthur De Grave shares...

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E.F. Schumacher was one of the pioneers of the movement towards sustainable living and a follower of Gandhiji. His classic book “Small is Beautiful”-...

Devinder Sharma writes on the dangers of food shipped across continents – grown in one, processed and repacked elsewhere and shipped back to the...

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