Winds of change?

Disaster management chaos leaves Orissa as vulnerable as before

Anomalies galore

A survey of a World Bank-funded environment programme in Assam

Will the deserts retreat?

The first conference of parties for the Convention to Combat Desertification held in Rome took some important decisions to save the parts of the …

The new votaries of Forest Rights Act

Is it the upcoming elections that are prompting states to focus on FRA and win hearts of the tribal people? wonders Kumar Sambhav Shrivastava

Fuel cell buses for Delhi Going nowhere?

Grants have been approved to facilitate the use of fuel cell buses in the developing countries

Back To Beginning

Afghanistan, the badland of international politics, faces its toughest challenge: life and peace. Two decades of war, six months of non-stop …

Mayhem in Arunachal

The numbers game

Can the cold logic of statistics ever breathe life into yardsticks for deciding whether a nation has done good or bad by its people?

Good but not true

The United Nations does not take into account sustainability of the environment in assessing progress using the Human Development Index, …

Just passed!

The Indian automobile industry gets a rude shock: its pedestrian performance makes winners look like losers

$4.5 billion question

Where does Afghanistan go from here? Does it have the capacity to utilise the funds? There are too many players, too many interests and too much …

The Die Hards

Despite marathon wars, Afghan resilience is intact. So is their affiliation to localised independence

Latin lessons

Experiments in cash transfer in Latin America

Booked for arms

UNDP's Human Development Report has become a bone of contention for 2 Indian ministries

PROJECT FOR FARMERS

Summing up poverty

The latest Human Development Report highlights the need for people- and resource-friendly development

More or less equal

God made all humans equal, but some are more equal than others when it comes to consuming the world's resources

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Organic uplift

The poorer you are, the less aid you get

PROJECTS FOR PAKISTAN

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DEVELOPMENT BLUES

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