Social Media Ideas for Series Editor: Amartaya Gupta

Geopolitics and global value chains: Implications for trade policy and development in Asia

Rising geopolitical tensions and increasing fragmentation introduce new risks into global production networks, forcing both disruptions and creating new strategic opportunities. Ho...

Beyond transparency: a better model for sovereign debt crises

For decades, the global financial community has treated sovereign debt crises like a broken thermometer: if we just improve the reading (transparency) and hold the technician accou...

From Global Uncertainty To India's Opportunity: The Big Economic Outlook

India’s economy is navigating a complex mix of global uncertainty, currency pressures, elevated oil prices, and shifting foreign capital flows. In this special edition of Easynomic...

Beyond Aid: Perspectives For The Least Developed and Vulnerable Countries And Global South Development

‘Do More With Less’: GEF CEO Claude Gascon on Speed, Scale and Reform

WASHINGTON D.C. & HYDERABAD, India, May 19 (IPS) - As governments prepare for the Eighth Assembly of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) – scheduled to be held from May 30 t...

Satyajit Das: An Emerging Market Crisis in Oil-Poor Asia?

It is no secret that most countries in Asia will be hard by the energy crunch. What can they do?

Urban Food Poverty in India: Delhi’s 3 a.m. Kitchen

Every morning, before most of Delhi has opened its eyes, a kitchen in Connaught Place is already running at full speed. Thousands of meal boxes — roti, kadhi chawal, rajma, vegetab...

Invaluable New Geopolitical Risk Indexes: AI-GPR, GPR-Oil, and More

Readers of Econbrowser know that I’ve put a lot of stress on using high frequency measures of uncertainty and risk to interpret recent events. One of those indices is the Caldara-I...

GEF Pushes Innovation, Blended Finance Ahead of the Eighth Assembly

SAMARKAND, Uzbekistan, June 3 (IPS) - As the Global Environment Facility (GEF) steps into the starting blocks of its next financial cycle, the Interim CEO Claude Gascon reflects o...

What I’ve Learned From ‘The End of Poverty,’ 20 Years Later

The author reflects on Jeffrey Sachs, the U.N., and the need to redesign global institutions for a world shaped by climate change, poverty and geopolitical strain.

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Inside GEF’s Blended Finance Push: Turning Public Money Into Private Capital Leverage

SAMARKAND, Uzbekistan, July 7 (IPS) - For most of the Eighth Global Environmental Facility (GEF) Assembly last month, the atmosphere inside Samarkand’s sprawling Congress Centre e...

The Resource Efficiency Imperative: Producing More With Less in a Constrained World

You can feel the squeeze now, not as a distant sustainability talking point, but as a real operating constraint. Producing more with less is becoming the reality for Agriculture, i...

India’s LED Story Highlights How Blended Finance Powers Environmental Action

HYDERABAD, India, May 28 (IPS) - Ahead of the Eighth Global Environment Facility (GEF) Assembly in Samarkand, governments and development institutions are grappling with a familia...

#BTSustainabilityAwards LIVE: Climate Finance Gap - How Will India Fund Its $10 Trillion Target?

India requires an estimated $10 trillion by 2070 to achieve net-zero targets, but global capital flows remain severely limited amid geopolitical uncertainties. At the event Busines...

Editorial. Index of improvement

Revised IIP will work as a better policy guide

World Bank, WTO, Others Call for Strengthening of Food, Energy Security

Oluchi Chibuzor and Erobomhan Jessica The heads of the International Energy Agency (IEA), International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank Group and World Trade Organisation (WTO) hav...

Amid global uncertainties, parliamentary panel to study evolving economic conditions in India

The examination is expected to cover topics, including economic growth, inflation, employment, investment trends, fiscal management, banking sector developments, trade and the impa...

Centre to launch new series WPI, producer price indices on June 15

 Aim to more accurately capture prices at the farm gate and factory level; full transition to PPI likely by 2031

Transforming Bangladesh’s textile & apparel industry (Part 2)

From a BDT 20,000-crore investment fund and mandatory LEED certification to backward linkage protection and the abolition of the bonded warehouse system, the concluding article in...

India’s GDP Revisions Explained: What Changed and Why it Matters

India has revised its methodology for measuring economic growth after a decade. Better calculations matter, but the real test lies in how policymakers interpret them, and turn them...

LLMs and IMF Advice, Dollar Trinity, Risk-On/Risk -Off and Loanly Govts: (Almost) Live-Blogging ISOM 2026

Jeffrey Frankel and Hélène Rey organized a great conference for the NBER’s International Seminar on Macroeconomics, hosted by the Sveriges Riksbank; topics covered were wide and di...

Technology for Smallholder Farmers in India

A trader pulls up to a field in rural Maharashtra. He names a price for the onion harvest. The farmer, who has no way to check if it is fair, has always accepted. That is how it ha...