The death of Pope Francis was expected given his frail health. But I still received the news with shock and sadness. He was a ...

Thirty-two years have passed since the death of former President Ranasinghe Premadasa. The terrorist attack targeting him on ...

In urban India, the story is no better. A recent CMIE survey found that salaried jobs fell by nearly 10 million between 2019 ...

The U.N.'s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) track more than 230 performance indicators to determine progress in social, ...

The world-renowned economist and Nobel laureate Amartya Sen once stated that economic development is about producing freedom for a country’s activities. The foundation of the Premadasa ...

Recent figures suggest progress but also mask critical gaps in methodology, data collection and lived experiences.

The 2025 edition of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) flagship report, the Human Development Report (HDR) is ...

The GDP growth rate has many limitations as an economic indicator. It captures only a very narrow slice of economic activity: ...

One of the more surprising - and often missed - aspects of Francis' 12-year papacy was his emergence as an incisive economic ...

In 2008, the French government asked two Nobel Prize winners, Joseph Stiglitz and Amartya Sen, as well as the late ... For example, the Human Development Index of the United Nations, started ...