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

US shuns big scientific projects

Sidelining sanitation

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.

Drooping research

MINOR RELIEF

Green money

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

Cashing in on solar power

Peru

Economics of healthcare

How to respond to strikes

Siphoning feared

Junk CAS

What civil society groups want the World Bank to do

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 …

Bright futures

Punjab farmers can get higher wheat prices now

Portrait of an insider as an enticer

Report>>his is the autobiography of a man

Money's worth?

No more funds to Bihar legislators

Corruption provokes Nitish Kumar to scrap development fund

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 …

Who cares for India today

Glamorous and profitable, too

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

Winds of change?

Disaster management chaos leaves Orissa as vulnerable as before

Perseverance pays

Learning from Lorenzo's oil

Reviving Kottayam

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

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.…