How Do We Keep Girls In School?

Following the World Development Report (2012), we discuss policies that can change the price of schooling under three categories: (i) direct costs; (ii) indirect costs; and...

Condom-Vending Machines Rust As HIV Cases Increase

Guwahati: Lying unused and unstocked, the state’s condom-vending machines have found no takers. Even as the state records more and more cases of HIV/AIDS, the ambitio...

What Do The Global Goals Mean For Girls?

17 is a magic number. Apollo 17 went to the moon, Michelle Obama was born on January 17, John Lennon met Paul McCartney when he was 17, and I am 17 years old. But perhaps m...

YFR Launches Mans’s World, For Gender Equality At 6th Jagran Film Festival

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What are Parineeti Chopra, Kalki Koechlin, Richa Chadda, Rhea Chakraborty, Bhumi Pednekar, Pritish Nan...

Gender Inequality Is Costing The World $28 Trillion

A new report quantifies what enlightened employers have long known: gender parity in the workforce has enormous value. A new study from the McKinsey Global Institute analyz...

Workers Of The World, Employed

More than 60 percent of the world’s gross domestic product comes from global TRADE. This is double what it was in the 1980s. Most economists agree that the astonishin...

A Total Of $2.6 Trillion Is Now Being Divested From Fossil Fuels

?One year ago today we announced that the total was $52 billion, and committed to tripling that figure,? said Ellen Dorsey, the executive director of Wallace Global Fund, w...

Indian Healthcare To Touch $280 Bn By 2020, To Create 7.4 Million Jobs.

India’s healthcare industry, which is estimated to grow by at least 16 per cent from $73.92 billion in 2011 to $280 billion in 2020, will see its workforce demand dou...

Is There A Gender Gap In Media Reporting On Climate Change?

From extreme weather events to water shortages, reduced harvests, and increased spread of infectious diseases, climate change can affect human life in countless ways. Clima...