‘India budget weak in public participation; limited in transparency’
The country’s performance in terms of public participation and budget oversight by the legislature was rated “weak” in the survey
How the rise in ethnic tensions at Kenya's universities is hurting the academy
Ethnic consciousness has been a part of Kenya’s higher education politics since the first decade of independence
World Bank report paints contrasting picture of African economy
While poverty may be lower than what current estimates suggest, the number of people living in extreme poverty has increased since 1990
Growing burden
Our fanatical pursuit of GDP as the sole measure of development is only throwing up more catastrophic nightmares
Stumbling along on the road to green
A documentary telecast on Rajiv Gandhi's 50th birth anniversary examines the late Prime Minister's environmental initiatives, but finds the …
Incorporating social welfare in national planning
FOUNDATIONS OF INDIA'S POLITICAL ECONOMY: TOWARDS AN AGENDA FOR THE 1990S Edited by Subroto Roy and William James . Publisher: Sage Publications,…
Global resource use must be careful and fair
Environmental stress has resulted mainly from unsustainable consumption levels in poor nations because of bad land-use and degraded village …
The utopian trap
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND ENVIRONMENT: A CASE STUDY OF INDIA Edited by Kartik C Roy, Clement A Tisdell and Raj Kumar Sen Publisher: Oxford …
Where a community maps its resources
It's a unique experiment. Three Kerala organisations are involving local communities to evolve a blueprint for development based on …
Future in the past
FUTURE OF PROGRESS: REFLECTIONS ON ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT Edited by Vandana Shiva, Helena Norberg-Hodge, Edward Goldsmith and Martin Khor …
The Rural Sector Opportunities and challenges
To deal with 'economic poverty', it is necessary to deal with 'ecological poverty'. And people's participation is necessary to undertake …
A safety valve!
Alarmed by super rapid industrialisation in Asia and the Pacific, the Asian Development Bank suggests urgent corporate 'voluntary' action and …
Whither liberalisation
The post-GATT liberalisation era has come to India not only with its enchanting platter of economic efficiency, technological treasure trough …
Idea of green growth losing traction among climate policy researchers, survey of nearly 800 academics reveals
Researchers from the EU and other OECD nations demonstrated high levels of scepticism
Economic Survey 2019-20: What it says on stubble burning
Survey recognises 'concern' but says trend downwards
As told to Parliament (February 13, 2023): Climate change likely to pull down wheat yield by 6-25% in 2100, says minister
Rainfed rice yields in India are projected to reduce marginally
Good health, reduction of poverty, hunger rated as today’s top priorities in Ipsos poll
Half of respondents said their government was not doing enough to achieve SDGs
Rajya Sabha passes the Constitutional Amendment Bill on GST
The move paves way for a uniform tax regime in India
For the record
Eco-friendly growth
Despite a growing economy, global carbon emissions declined by 0.5 per cent in 1998
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Conservation corridors
Asia to have its first cross-country linkages of fragmented habitats
Growth might dry up
GDP growth is not a fool-proof measure against climate change
Look back at the decade: Geopolitics
At the end of the second decade of the millenium no one knows how human activity would affect its pristine ecology
Inequality among farmers keeps 85 per cent out of discourse
Like in the formal economy, the farm economy also suffers from concentration of lands within a small group