Provision of modern energy services for cooking (with gaseous fuels) and lighting (with electricity) is an essential component of any policy aiming to address health, education or welfare issues; yet it gets little attention from policy-makers. Secure, adequate, low-cost energy of quality and...

Introduction : the COVID-19 pandemic, challenges, and policy / Indranil De, Hippu Salk Kristle Nathan Soumyadip Chattopadhyay, and Kingshuk Sarkar -- Policy response to pandemic : COVID-19 SOPs and guidelines / Shyam Singh -- The dichotomies of management and governance in the COVID-19 pandemic...

Bruntland Commission's report led to popularisation of notion of sustainability and a boom in the development of sustainable development indicators (SDIs). Numerous efforts have been made worldwide in constructing SDIs at global, national, and local scales, but India has been lacking in such...

This note provides an estimate of incidence of poor and poverty risk in India across NSS regions for 2004-05 and 2009-10 in rural and urban areas. It raises concern on increasing poverty risk and also incidence of poor in some regions. These are not necessarily among the relatively worse-off...