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  • Stagnating wages in rural India are a distress signal of unequal economic growth

    Stagnating wages in rural India are a distress signal of unequal economic growth

    Rohit Inani, IndiaSpend.com
    · May 31, 2024 · 07:30 pm
  • How Assam’s cow protection law could devastate the state’s already-stressed rural economy

    How Assam’s cow protection law could devastate the state’s already-stressed rural economy

    Rajib Sutradhar
    · Sep 04, 2021 · 09:00 am
  • As pandemic pushes India’s microfinance sector to the brink, women are the first to fall

    As pandemic pushes India’s microfinance sector to the brink, women are the first to fall

    Mahima Jain
    · Dec 18, 2020 · 09:00 am
  • India’s restriction on cattle sale has dulled the shine of ‘Asia’s largest animal festival’

    India’s restriction on cattle sale has dulled the shine of ‘Asia’s largest animal festival’

    Mohd Imran Khan
    · Dec 12, 2019 · 08:30 pm
  • Rural employment: As opportunities drop, women pay the highest price

    Rural employment: As opportunities drop, women pay the highest price

    Tish Sanghera, IndiaSpend.com
    · Apr 21, 2019 · 12:30 pm
  • Shining success: How traditional makers of brass utensils brought prosperity to a Bihar village

    Shining success: How traditional makers of brass utensils brought prosperity to a Bihar village

    Mohd Imran Khan
    · Jun 03, 2018 · 08:30 am
  • To save Tamil Nadu’s palm trees, climbers are trying to raise awareness about their many benefits

    To save Tamil Nadu’s palm trees, climbers are trying to raise awareness about their many benefits

    Catherine Gilon
    · Apr 26, 2018 · 01:30 pm
  • Budget 2018 talks big on rural economy and agriculture. But where is the money?

    Budget 2018 talks big on rural economy and agriculture. But where is the money?

    Kumar Sambhav Shrivastava
    · Feb 02, 2018 · 09:00 am
  • This year’s Economic Survey is likely to focus on rural economy, agriculture, with eye on 2019 polls

    This year’s Economic Survey is likely to focus on rural economy, agriculture, with eye on 2019 polls

    Nitin Sethi
    · Jan 28, 2018 · 05:30 pm
  • Watch: P Sainath lays bare the agrarian crisis behind farmer protests in India

    Watch: P Sainath lays bare the agrarian crisis behind farmer protests in India

    Scroll Staff
    · Jun 13, 2017 · 10:00 am
  • Why Hindu farmers and cattle traders in Rajasthan are angry with gau rakshaks

    Why Hindu farmers and cattle traders in Rajasthan are angry with gau rakshaks

    Ajaz Ashraf
    · May 06, 2017 · 06:30 am