Book review: Making amends?
"Demanding Accountability: Civil-Society Claims and the World Bank Inspection Panel" Edited by Dana Clark, Jonathan Fox and Kay Treakle Rainbow …
In short
Dream work?
The UPA government's first full-fledged budget is full of promises. How real are they?
A new body to recover CAMPA funds
Ad hoc body to organise afforestation funds
Money talks
On the defensive at Cancun?
Recently Arun Jaitley identified agriculture and investment as the two main issues for next month's World Trade Organization ministerial …
Missionary zeal
The urban renewal mission is likely to bypass or short change the urban poor
Factsheet: Climate finance
Climate finance involves flow of funds from developed to developing countries to help them cut their emissions and adapt to climate change. …
How this Gujarat man came to be celebrated as a Biblical character
Bharat Patel gets the fisherfolk of Kutch, affected by a coal power plant funded by the World Bank, a historic victory in the US Supreme Court
Berlin’s grassroots plan to renationalise up to 200,000 ex-council homes from corporate landlords
Bangkok climate talks on adaptation communication show sign of promise
The document, which is currently being discussed, emphasises the need for support for adaptation communications as well as the purpose of the support
State-run insurance firms headless; PMFBY implementation suffers
Performances of private insurance companies were also not encouraging, though they had been opted for those states where risk was less
Pre-2020 action and climate finance need of the hour: BASIC
Adaptation fund and finance are issues that are still to be discussed and resolved
Smart city financing laden with trouble
Allocation of funds is not equitable even as local bodies face difficulties in generating money
Natural resources can pay for Myanmar's needs
The government can allocate money more rationally between ministries and set ministry spending limits based on available resources, thanks …
The truth behind developed nations' pledge to mobilise climate finance
A crucial issue is whether private money should be included in the target to reach US $100 billion for mitigating climate change impacts
Bond, green bond
India has finally entered the green bond market, but at a time when the bonds are not doing well globally. Have we missed the bus?
Solace in money plant
Forestry rescues recession-ridden investors in Europe and North America
A luxury no more
Kaziranga nightmare
Sullying the seas
An oil spill pollutes 500 km of the French coast. It takes three weeks and public pressure for the guilty company to accept responsibility
Power cut
Maharashtra's decentralisation plan gets derailed even before it can take off
Tough measure
Book review: Panchayats, democracy and development
In 1992 the Indian Parliament approved of the 73rd constitutional amendment, which made it mandatory for state governments to devolve powers to …
Report: Face financial risk - Ignore climate change
A 2003 report, Carbon Finance and the Global Equity Markets, identifies changing climate due to rising global average temperature as one of the …