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Media Credit: Anthony Peltier | Photographer Narain said in addition to the pandemic, India is facing an imminent crisis in climate change due to its dependence on monsoons, which have become increasingly inconsistent. A panel of Indian economists and activists discussed India’s COVID-19 outbreak and environmental crises during a virtual event Wednesday. The panelists addressed health concerns India faces from climate change and the spread of the coronavirus, prompting solutions like governm...

Andrew Sugrue with the Arizona Center for Economic Progress said the move will cost Arizona $1 billion in federal jobless assistance and create worry for poor households. “People might be accepting jobs they otherwise wouldn’t have. Maybe that’s taking a job away from someone who needs it. And so, I think it’s injecting a lot of anxiety into a group of low income workers,” he said. Sugrue mocked the governor’s $2,000 back-to-work bonuses for those who obtain full-time work, stop rec...

Indias fiscal response to COVID-19 last year prevented severe contraction: IMF official Gaspar stressed the importance of being ready to provide agile and flexible policy support as appropriate to respond to COVID-19 related developments Joe C Mathew | April 27, 2021 | Updated 14:28 IST Director of IMFs Fiscal Affairs Department Vitor Gaspar (Source: IMFBlog) Indias fiscal response to the first wave of COVID-19 infections last year has found a taker in the International Monetary Fund (IMF). S...

Clint Sundt Sundt Construction is pleased to announce Clint Sundt will serve as the operations manager for Sundt Renewables, a subsidiary of the company. He will oversee construction operations for the subsidiary’s growing portfolio of renewable power projects across the country. “As Sundt Renewables continues to grow, we’re excited to have an experienced leader like Clint on our team,” Sundt Renewables president Tom Dodson said. “His extensive construction knowledge an...

New Tools for Social Progress An article by U.S. Senator Walter F. Mondale from the September 1967 issue of The Progressive. Creative Commons Jimmy Carter and Walter Mondale at the Democratic National Convention in New York City on July 15, 1976. Early this year, the National Committee Against Segregation in Housing charged that for the past three decades, good intentions notwithstanding, various Federal programs had fostered racial segregation and consequently trapped Negroes in slum ghettos.�...

Biden cites infrastructure needs in Arizona, other states, to push plan April 12, 2021 Highway and bridge construction is just one of the elements in the wide-ranging, $2 trillion American Jobs Plan being pushed by the Biden administration. The proposal, to be paid for with an increase in corporate taxes, would fund everything from broadband access to affordable housing to veterans’ care. (File photo by Jenna Miller/Cronkite News) WASHINGTON – The White House began its pitch Monday for Pres...

WASHINGTON – The White House began its pitch Monday for President Joe Biden’s $2 trillion infrastructure proposal by spelling out construction needs in all 50 states, including Arizona which got a grade of C on a recent infrastructure report card. Biden unveiled his American Jobs Plan on March 31, to fund everything from roads and ports to veterans services and broadband. “We need to build the infrastructure of today, not repair the one of yesterday,” said Biden, who met wit...

Service professionals still relevant THE SUN Malaysia is no exception that visualises industrialisation as a catalyst for economic development. In his book on The Conditions of Economic Progress published in 1960, Professor Collin Clark predicted that a nation would pass through three stages of economic progress. As he wrote, “... as time goes on and communities become more economically advanced, the numbers engaged in agriculture tend to decline relative to the numbers in manufacture, w...

Contrasting stories of economic transition from a trio of states A tale of three statesPremium 5 min read Vidya Mahambare Kerala and Tamil Nadu have both done better than West Bengal but covid could result in a divergence between the first two Share Via Read Full Story Three major Indian states—Kerala, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal—are currently holding assembly elections for state government formation. How do these three compare in terms of their economic progress and what does their future h...

By Sean Tembo 1. As Patriots for Economic Progress (PeP), we have noted with regret the efforts by the ruling PF party in general and President Edgar Lungu in particular to buy votes ahead of the 12th August general elections. Almost on a daily basis, President Lungu is donating millions to certain privileged individuals in the name of empowerment, the latest being 52 fuel tankers worth more than K200 million that were donated to selected youths a few days ago. These disparate gestures on the ...