Still in the bind

Least developed countries (LDCs) are caught in a vicious cycle of debt and aid. Stiff and biased trade barriers by industrialised countries helps …

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Growth of R&D

Back to forests

The Tamil Nadu government decides to revive its forest cover

Controversial pay-out

Japan bank sanctions Rs 560-cr loan for Orissa forestry sector

Old whine in new bottle

Debate over fresh IFC guidelines

Alternative approaches to poverty alleviation

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The underbelly of aid

Rite? Wrong.

Ganga plumbs new depths in its journey through Varanasi

Patron states

US, Australia move up in list of benefactor nations

South Asia

Will the deserts retreat?

The first conference of parties for the Convention to Combat Desertification held in Rome took some important decisions to save the parts of the …

Soft target

The Orissa government makes a move to wrest control of some 2,000-odd non-governmental organisations operating in the state

ADB annual meet silences voices of the poor

But no one heard the poor at ADB's annual meet

Norway pulls out of World Bank facility

World Bank lendings

Terminated abruptly

Toeing the US' line appears to be an essential prerequisite for receiving aid from it. The 'Reproductive Health for Refugees Consortium' for aids …

A fluid paradox

International aid agencies and local people do not agree on what tastes like real water

Fund lathers

But leather industry may pollute more

Ground zero within

What was the social yield of the nuclear tests conducted by India? As the sensitive electronic devices measured the output of the blasts, Down To …

Aid cuts will defeat objectives of Agenda 21

WITH HUGE reductions in aid already under way and further cuts to follow soon, transfer of resources remains the most contentious issue in …

Move to leash NGOs

Government and political parties see NGOs with suspicion. Arm-twisting has already begun

Development doubts

Johan von Schreeb on humanitarian aid

Johan Von Schreeb, a surgeon who has worked for the group Medicins Sans Frontieres, is a public health scholar with the Karolinska Institutet, …