THAILAND

SRI LANKA

United front

Obstructing the flow

What's the motive?

A fillip to reconstruction

South Asia

From the blurbs

From the blurbs

Taliban take-over: Afghanistan already battling drought, hunger, COVID-19

The now-absent government at Kabul had declared drought on June 22; half of its 30 million people are below the poverty line while 7,000 …

Where will the moolah come from?

The Third World feels that the move by the industrialised countries to link ADB's lending policies to social objectives may hamper growth in Asia

Dancing to the World Bank's tune

The World Bank, which is the largest lender of aid to the Third World, is casting its shadow on decisions made by the Indian Union ministry of …

Gruelling days ahead at WHO for Nakajima

Allegations of financial irregularities are likely to be highlighted at a crucial session scheduled shortly in Geneva.

Irrigation aid for India stopped

American aid for Indian irrigation projects has been withdrawn as focus shifts to other sectors.

Wanted: an independent appeals institution

If the World Bank does not withdraw from the Narmada dam, it will undermine the credibility it gained from setting up the review team. US NGOs …

Shortchanging the South

Funds, always a sticky subject, was an area of considerable debate at UNCED. What emerged was a weak compromise which left northern purses …

Tehri: hanging over troubled waters

What will happen now to the Tehri dam? Even as engineers and environmentalists await the Prime Minister's verdict on the project, the proposed …

Two new worlds

'Aid fatigue' in the West is changing the perception of the development paradigm of the poorer countries

The daily bread

Bangladesh's flood victims have little or no work, and little or no money to buy food. And even the foodstuffs that are provided to them under …

Gender bias

Studies from Africa show that women are more prone to the aids virus than men. This will require reorientating drug research

Zimbabwe invites UN to conduct food-security survey

In Short

Most number of people in need of aid in Ethiopia, Yemen, DRC & Afghanistan in 2021

Need for humanitarian aid reached an all-time high during January 2018-December 2021

Writing its own future

Trial by fire