Gemma Connell, a member of the United Nations’ humanitarian agency (OCHA) has said that “suffering is everywhere — I mean absolutely everywhere — that I have been” in Gaza.
“I have never in my humanitarian career seen [this] level of suffering, desperation and depravation,” she told CNN.
The government no longer has the budgetary space to continue carrying hundreds of billions of rupees in untargeted subsidies while the power sector itself remains trapped in circular debt, inefficiencies, theft and under-recovery.
Our financial system is geared towards short-term, risk-averse lending, while climate adaptation and green infrastructure require patient, long-term capital.