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 …