Not so lovely fair trade

Dirty advance

Budget pitches for agriculture

No incentives for organic fertilizers and sustainable farming  

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, …

Paris finance meet: What is the Summit for a New Global Financing Pact about?

Discussions on how to reform Multilateral Development Banks (MDB) to better serve the needs of the Global South will be in spotlight

COP27 diary (November 10): Rich countries admit funding gap in addressing loss & damage

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

COVID-19 tanked India’s carbon emissions, but stimulus will drive them up again

The Rs 90,000-crore stimulus for power distribution companies fails to consider emissions reductions

What negotiations mean for least developed countries

They insist that loss and damage is a non-negotiable element of the Paris agreement

Swachh Bharat cess: A few states may not agree on it

Except Andhra Pradesh and Uttarakhand, no other state has directly agreed to the central proposal

Revamping US healthcare

US politicians and insurance companies claim to offer the best healthcare services in the world. Recently, however, top US experts have admitted …

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

Money set aside to build institutions, not public health

Preventive and primary healthcare get a miss in the budget 2014

World Bank axes coal-power funds

While India is unfazed by the decision, other developing countries may be hit hard

For a place in the sun

Doubts persist over Green Climate Fund taking off at Doha

Workshop on climate finance gives hope, but a lot of work remains to be done

Nothing to smile about!

Yashwant Sinha pleases the industry by playing a rude joke on the environment

Hydropower back in World Bank's good books

Digging shallow

CAMPA bill defeated

Panchayats to spend Rs 1.42 lakh crore on water and sanitation

Spend 60% grant on water and sanitation: 15th Finance Commission recommends to rural local bodies  

Agriculture: wrong prescription for right diagnosis

Finance minister’s decision to increase farm credit corpus and give more autonomy to states for agriculture schemes unlikely to help farmers

Ban FDI in brownfield pharma, says Parliament standing committee

Panel raises alarm over continuing takeover of Indian generic drug firms by multinational companies

Question of safety

The Bangkok conference on the risks of genetically modified corps advocated greater investment of public funds in bio-safety research

Climate change could hit India, 58 other nations’ credit ratings

Countries ranking higher on sovereign ratings likely to face more severe downgrades