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Poverty
Playing dice with development
Issue Date: Mar 31, 1995
THE trappings of power were all there, and so were the traps. The United Nation's World Summit on Social Development, held in Copenhagen between March 6-12, had been projected as a potential washout. The preparatory committees and rounds of meetings, the charting of highly charged agenda, the government delegations and the non-governmental organisations (NGOs) -- all came together with priorities and proclivities of their own, often exclusively their own.
Vertigo at the summit
Issue Date: Mar 15, 1995
"ATTACKING Poverty, Building Solidarity, Creating Jobs" --these are the 3 central themes on which the United Nations-sponsored World Summit For Social Development, to be held from March 6-12 in Copenhagen, Denmark, rests. Various international communities are patching together a last-minute-bid to define their stands on these issues.
Living energy
Issue Date: Dec 15, 1994
FAR from the shrill cut-and-splice medley of liberalisation, reform and the free market highway to economic growth, some experts have been advocating an alternative approach to alleviating poverty and dealing with energy scarcity in India. They banded together in Bangalore recently to suggest a bioresources strategy for India.
Laps of plenty
Issue Date: Jul 15, 1994
Imagine this scene unfolding in one of the cool rooms off the magnificent Central Hall of the Indian Parliament: a Member of Parliament punches 2-fingered into an imported laptop 486, plugs it -- fax modem and all -- into the telephone socket, and blasts off a missive to the mofussil town closest to his crumbly, inaccessible constituency in some forsaken backyard of the country. From there, a 'runner' postman picks up the piece of paper and canters off to the letter's destination, a good half a day over unfriendly terrain. Laptop or no, the message takes a day to go from MP to home.
One goal, two roads
Issue Date: Apr 15, 1994
AT THEIR most convivial, Indian NGOs tend to keep a wide no-person's-land between themselves and the government. So when Prime Minister P V Narasimha Rao called for voluntary organisations to cooperate with the government in order to eradicate poverty, they considered the possibility with lips pursed in doubt. They made their trepidation clear at the two-day NGO-government meeting, organised by the Planning Commission on March 7 and 8 at the PM's behest.
Sustainable development is an oxymoron
Issue Date: Mar 15, 1994
You have talked at length on sustainable development. But your conception of sustainability seems to be incompatible with development. Could you explain?
For me, sustainable development is an oxymoron. Development with a capital D has for 40 years meant economic development. But in as much as development means giving a boost to GNP, development is intrinsically incompatible with sustainability. What has happened in the past eight years is, in a way, an attempt to come up with radical reforms using conventional means.
Interviewee:
Wolfgang Sachs
The economics of empowerment
Issue Date: Mar 15, 1994
"For a long time now, we have been calculating the number of people below and above the poverty line. And, these numbers have become a hot political issue. But the important thing is to eradicate hunger. This can be done by identifying the critical areas of poverty and helping the local people to manage their resource base. Several projects show that good watershed management brings high rates of return."
A haven for dumping
Issue Date: Feb 28, 1994
THE SIX Nations native reserve in Ontario, Canada, has been reduced to an ugly waste dump, according to Multinational Monitor. Situated close to the industrial heartland of the country, the reserve is susceptible to refuse from neighbouring communities.
Royalties for folklore
Issue Date: Feb 15, 1994
DEVELOPED countries are busy increasing the breadth and depth of the intellectual property regime, using accusations of piracy. Yet, the innovations that multinationals have patented are heavily dependent on the biological and artistic knowledge of the people of the South.
Traditional knowledge: Let the people decide
Issue Date: Jan 15, 1994
With the help of the Indian Institute of Technology in Bombay, a premier scientific research organisation, the Patriotic and People-Oriented Science and Technology Foundation (PPST), a science-based NGO, brought together 1,200 people from all over India to discuss the country's heritage in science and technology and what, if any, relevance it has today. The size of the gathering demonstrated the keen interest that people from diverse professions and ideologies have in the subject.
