Articles for Sustainability

Five Key Lessons About Women And Work In India

Sustainability Mar 08, 2016 5 min(s) read

Despite the increasing number of women pursuing secondary and post-secondary education, India’s women keep dropping out. Since 2005, more than 25 million Indian women have left the labour force

The SDG Framework: An Indian Take

Sustainability Mar 01, 2016 7 min(s) read

India is a large and heterogeneous country and there are considerable variations across States and within them. Such laggard regions pull down all-India trends

Record Farm Funding, Up 84%; Crises Also Record-Breaking

Sustainability Mar 01, 2016 6 min(s) read

Jaitley’s budget has nine pillars: Agriculture, rural development, health, education and jobs, infrastructure, financial reforms, governance and ease of doing business, prudent fiscal management, and tax-administration reforms.

SDGs And Inequality

Sustainability Feb 25, 2016 6 min(s) read

The SDGs are much bolder and more aspirational and differ from the Millennium Development Goals (SDGs) which were adopted in 2000 for the period 2000-2015

Sustaining Development

Sustainability Jan 20, 2016 5 min(s) read

Enlightened self-interest requires that the private sector must no longer shirk its responsibility with regard to the community or to the environment which sustains them

Mizoram Shows How Good Sanitation Can Reduce Child Malnutrition

Sustainability Jan 06, 2016 4 min(s) read

Almost 90% of child deaths from diarrhoeal diseases are directly linked to contaminated water, lack of sanitation or inadequate hygiene, according to a UNICEF report

Child-Health Spending Soars, But 40 Million Indian Children Stunted

Sustainability Jan 04, 2016 4 min(s) read

This in a country that boasts a 40-year-old national child-health programme– now among the world’s largest–and increased spending on child health 200% over a decade.