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On January 1, Portugal took over the rotating six-month presidency of the European Union, and announced : to promote Europe’s recovery from the pandemic, its programmes for social solidarity, and its “strategic autonomy.” Important for success is a focus on research careers, and on strengthening the European Research Area – a set of policies promoting cooperation and mobility of ideas and researchers across the EU. So argues Manuel Heitor, Portuguese minister for science, technology and higher education, in this essay for Science|Business. Progress achieved in the development of the...

Neera Chandhoke Political Scientist WHILE flagging off the first train run on the 351-km New Delhi-New Khurja section of the Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor, PM Narendra Modi demanded that political parties should put development above politics. The turn of phrase — development above politics — is significant. In 1994, development had been typed as the quintessential ‘anti-politics machine’ by noted anthropologist James Ferguson. Leaders across the postcolonial world continue to flag the political vocabulary of development as value-free and apolitical, as a binary opposite to polit...

The gap between India’s potential and reality is reflected by the fact that the India Story continues to be defined, quote-unquote ‘emerging’ for three decades since 1991. India’s $ 2.8 trillion economy is at an inflection point. Hindsight, they say is 2020 and the year has many lessons. Here are five takeaways for Budget 2021. Invest in Human Capital: India’s strength is the scale of 1.3 billion aspirations. Yet, successive regimes have flailed at investing in developing human capital. The state of health care and the broken education system is illustrated by the ranking in the lat...

This week, the powers that be in Karnataka presented a text book case of how not to improve investment climate, rather how to deter investments. The social media is rife with conspiracy theories, but the violent incidents in Kolar at the Wistron plant point out the need for a reality check of systemic fault lines. The harsh fact is you cannot win Formula 1 with the Indian avatar of the British Morris. For nearly a decade, India’s governments invested political capital to woo manufacturers of iconic products to ‘make in India’ by leveraging skill availability and low manpower cost. The t...

United Nations Human Development Report 2020 released; What is UNHDR? What is India's position? An explainer Updated Dec 17, 2020 | 19:11 IST The UNDP Human Development Index ranking 2020 is out. India has slipped a spot to 131. What does the UN Development Index measure? Here's an explainer. United Nations Human Development Report 2020  The 2020 Human Development Report is released. Though India slipped to 131, a step lower than the year before, the UNDP Resident Representative Shoko Noda has praised India's commitment to reduce carbon emissions and said that India...