New priorities

BJP’s maiden budget disappointing for farmers

Jaitley continues with UPA schemes on agriculture, allocates more funds

Budget offers big push for rural infrastructure

Green transportation gets lip service

Not a bankable strategy

World Bank's forestry projects have not helped reduce poverty, says its own evaluator

The World After

Dry clean

A Bangalore slum experiments with ecofriendly toilets

Budget 2005-2006: the missing audit

Catchment Area Treatment Plan funds badly spent in Himachal

Is tackling climate change economically viable?

US bank uses carbon smokescreen

EXIM Bank nearly denied funds to Reliance’s coal-fired plant

Adaptation Gap Report 2023: Funding to developing nations declines 15% despite international pledges, rising costs

Neither domestic nor private funding sources could help bridge the adaptation finance gaps, report notes

Lost and damaged

Negotiations on loss and damage signal a weak deal

Victim of its success

MGNREGA blamed for causing labour shortage; cut in budgetary support likely

Stupid growth

Problems continue for Bangalore-Mysore expressway

The newer deal for a newer world

COP27 diary (November 15): Political support to loss and damage facility critical, says Pakistan

A round-up of what went on at the Sharm El-Sheikh summit

Enter green bond

Market for green bonds picks up; experts urge caution

International meet on Avian flu agree on a roadmap

Not so lovely fair trade

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, …

Dirty advance

Budget pitches for agriculture

No incentives for organic fertilizers and sustainable farming  

Debt crisis and gap in affordable climate finance in focus at IMF, World Bank meeting

Spring Meetings 2023 took place from April 10-16, 2023 in Washington DC

Money set aside to build institutions, not public health

Preventive and primary healthcare get a miss in the budget 2014