Debt
Debt is an obligation that requires one party, the debtor, to pay money or other agreed-upon value to another party, the creditor. Debt is a deferred payment, or series of payments, which differentiates it from an immediate purchase. The debt may be owed by sovereign state or country, local government, company, or an individual. Commercial debt is generally subject to contractual terms regarding the amount and timing of repayments of principal and interest. loans, bonds, notes, and mortgages are all types of debt. In finance, debt is one of the primary financial instruments, especially as distinct from equity. The term …
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PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 26 May 2024 English
into Delhi with the use of brute force. In Punjab’s poll campaigns today, farmers are repaying that debt – non-violently …
poll campaigns today, farmers are repaying that debt – non-violently …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 17 April 2024 English
Small and marginal farmers in this district of Jharkhand are reeling under debt, brought on by successive droughts. They say their vote is for irrigation …
in this district of Jharkhand are reeling under debt, brought on by successive droughts. They say their …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 19 March 2024 English
Kisan Mazdoor Commission (KMC), an initiative by the Nation for Farmers, is a collaboration of activists and organisations focussing on current challenges faced by primary producers, artisans and rural workers …
investment 3. Analysis of the patterns of rural debt, insurance, credit and finance 4. Analysis of the … 30%. b. Guarantee primary producers freedom from debt by implementing complete (formal and informal) loan … credit a. Guarantee primary producers freedom from debt by implementing complete (formal and informal) loan …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 18 March 2024 English
The working paper highlights how inequality in India declined in the period after independence until the 1980s, after which it started rising again. The paper compares the wealth and income …
Micro-data 2017-18 NSSO 2017-18 Tabulated All India Debt and Investment Survey (AIDIS) 1961-2018 Pre-1991 … suppressed by the Government of India.11 All India Debt and Investment Survey (AIDIS): The AIDIS are decennial … which collect detailed data on household wealth and debt.12 Micro-individual survey files are available for … acknowledge the concerns regarding the reliability of debt-levels estimated in AIDIS (Chavan, 2012; Narayanan … consistent with rich lists that only track net wealth. If debt is under-estimated in AIDIS as the literature suggests …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 January 2024 English
The 2024 SDG Gender Index by Equal Measures 2030, a coalition of civil society and non-profit organisations, delivers a critical and sobering message on the state of gender equality with …
protect and advance gender equality. Governments’ debt burden (Ind. 17.2) worsened more than any of the … International financing flows The score for governments’ debt burden (Ind. 17.2) worsened more than any other … between 2019 and 2022, meaning that government debt as a share of GDP rose sharply. More than one in … developing countries paid more to service their debt in 2022 than they received in aid and investment; … than one in three by 2025. Unsustainable public debt has a negative impact on gender equality. The International …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 January 2024 English
Becoming a Young Farmer with the subtitle Young People’s Pathways into Farming: Canada, China, India and Indonesia is a collection of research papers published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2024 and …
that a young farmer cannot hope to service the debt that they would be required to take on to purchase …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 January 2024 English
Since the year 2020, the five richest men in the world have doubled their fortunes. During the same period, almost five billion people have become poorer. Published by Oxfam International, …
2022 and 2023. Many garment workers are trapped in debt and have to borrow money to meet basic needs like … stay financially afloat in the face of mounting debt and the escalating costs of importing fuel, food … half a billion US dollars a day in interest and debt payments between now and 2029, and they are having … and debt payments between now and 2029.99 A recent Oxfam report highlights how Lebanon’s debt ballooned …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 20 November 2023 English
The Emissions Gap Report 2023 was published on November 20, 2023 by the United Nations Environment Programme. It is the 14th edition of the annual UNEP Emissions Gap Report (EGR), …
affordable finance as they are already saddled with debt, receive disproportionately low clean energy investments … mechanisms that lower costs of capital. These include debt financing, increasing long-term concessional finance …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 November 2023 English
First History Lessons is a series of books published by the Institute of Development Studies, Kolkata (IDSK). Aiming to simplify and explain important ideas of history, the series has been …
On top of this there were taxes and debts to moneylenders. …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 11 September 2023 English
In Sri Muktsar Sahib district, the impact of climate change is clear and present: two consecutive rabi crops have been devastated by untimely rains and hailstorms. Both livelihoods and homes …
