The not-so-evident truth about R & D

Research by private companies has not grown in proportion with economic liberalisation because of a lack of innovative character.

A long road ahead

Despite its vast numbers of scientists and research institutes, Indian science has always fared poorly on the global front. Several reasons have …

Disappointing effort on ecological economics

ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS: THE SCIENCE AND MANAGEMENT OF SUSTAINABILITY Edited by R Constanza Publisher: Columbia University Press, New York Price: …

Finnish belt-tightening chokes green projects

Faced with the century's worst recession Helsinki has had to cut back heavily on development aid. At stake are several international …

Pune citizens keep watchful eye on their city

Concerned residents of the city have formed groups to ensure the municipal authorities take care to keep the city clean, green and functioning.

Stalking plague

PUBLIC HEALTH AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT — THE PLAGUE IN SURAT·Ghanshyam Shah· Sage Publications, New Delhi·Rs 395

Democracy or dependance

Will the New Partnership for African Development (NEPAD) be able to deliver on its promises?

The politics of globalisation

POLITICIAN, economist and teacher all rolled into one --Johannes Pieter Pronk, better known as Jan Pronk, is in his second term as Netherlands …

June 5, 2005

World Effrontery Day?

Vietnam targets poverty with tourism

An ILO project generates job opportunities for local people in remote villages

SEZs and socialism

Prosperity and Beyond

A quarter of a century ago, a jeep driver decided it was time to make a change. Ralegan Siddhi, made into a model village by Anna Hazare, faces …

African delusions

Will CDM really benefit Africa or will it end up like the largely failed AIJ program.

From the blurbs

Blow for mud builders

Maidan in trouble

Green conflict

The economics of empowerment

LOANED SUCCOR

Mayhem in Arunachal

From river to a pond

ZAMBIA

Flood for thought

The people of Baluchistan don't let nature's odds stop them from growing crops

Cobweb wires

Stones at stones' worth

Industrial diamonds can now be produced cheaply