Rs 60 crore for 250,000 panchayats

The Centre's decision to reduce Panchayati Raj Ministry's budget and transfer its schemes to states has left the ministry bewildered about its …

The rulers nouveaux

Madhya Pradesh took a head-start in implementing the 3-tier panchayati raj. But lack of finances might just undo the transfer of power to the people

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

Squabbles thwart Third World projects

North vs South differences of opinion and the donor countries' control over funds has impeded the phasing out of ozone-depleting substances in …

Healthy, wealthy and wise

ECONOMICS OF HEALTH CARE FINANCING: THE INVISIBLE HAND Cam Donaldson and Karen Gerard Publisher: Macmillan, UK Price: Not stated Pages: 216

Bickering stalls formation of R&D authority

Scientists and industrialists are trying to give final shape to a body that will select and fund projects.

Glamorous and profitable, too

Biotechnology, which holds the answers to many persistent problems such as controlling disease and increasing food production, has tremendous …

Green money

Financial institutions may soon lend a helping hand to the environment sector, says the Indian environment minister

Reviving Kottayam

The healthy city project is, if nothing else, a pointer to the direction that Indian cities need to move in

Incomplete irrigation projects overshoot budget

The state governments' failure to complete irrigation projects has led to an escalation of their combined cost by close to a whopping one lakh …

UN projects food inflation to go up in 2024 due to El Nino, rising geopolitical tensions

May impact food insecurity, poverty; scaling up climate financing critical to help developing countries cope with climate impact

The curious case of climate finance

While a recent OECD report suggested that climate finance had risen to US $110 billion, India found that the only credible finance was for US $2.…

Complete makeover

Not much incentive

The JNU way out

Cut in research funds

BRAZIL

Spillage damages

Sanitary by 2010

Participatory survey gives Bangladesh the confidence to prepone sanitation coverage target

Don't bank on them

Noted financial institutes support projects harmful to the environs

Dead end

Toll road triggers protests

Death trail

Debt-laden Maharashtra farmers choose to die

Africa's largest slum has a radio station

Andhra Pradesh passes microfinance Act

Rs 3,300 crore to counter Naxalites

District administration will decide how to use funds