The rulers nouveaux

Madhya Pradesh took a head-start in implementing the 3-tier panchayati raj. But lack of finances might just undo the transfer of power to the people

Where will the moolah come from?

The Third World feels that the move by the industrialised countries to link ADB's lending policies to social objectives may hamper growth in Asia

Squabbles thwart Third World projects

North vs South differences of opinion and the donor countries' control over funds has impeded the phasing out of ozone-depleting substances in …

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

Not much incentive

No money for labs in antibiotics research

Though increasing bacterial resistance to antibiotics is making it difficult to treat diseases such as malaria, pharmaceutical companies do not …

The JNU way out

Cut in research funds