The Bikaner Development Authority Bill, 2025
<p>The Bikaner Development Authority Bill, 2025, passed by the Rajasthan Assembly, aims to establish a Bikaner Development Authority to regulate development activities in the Bikaner district. The bill
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International trade statistics 2007
The publication describes world trade trends,and focusing on trade in merchandise and trade in commercial services.
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Getting the basics right: water and sanitation in South East Asia and the Pacific
Australia’s overseas development aid assistance is set to increase substantially over the next four years. This much welcomed increase could be stretched in multiple directions to satisfy multiple needs. This paper is a contribution to the debate on how best to direct Australia’s investments to meet the objective of reducing poverty and achieving sustainable development. The paper suggests that a focus on domestic water and sanitation is critical and will contribute significantly to poverty reduction in the region.
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Hydropower development in India: a sector assessment
This report is intended to be a reference document for various parties involved in hydropower development in India. It provides an assessment of the hydropower development potential in India.
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Restoring nature's capital: an action agenda to sustain ecosystem services
The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) is a ground-breaking study on how humans have altered ecosystems, and how changes in ecosystem services affect human well-being, both now and in the future. Integrating findings at the local, regional, global scales and from alternative intellectual traditions, the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment presents a stark account of the mismanagement of these services. Using the assessment as its backdrop, "Restoring Nature's Capital' proposes an action agenda for business, governments, and civil society to reverse ecosystem degradation.
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Stories from the Asia water wire
The book is a compilation of articles written in 2005 and 2006 as part of a series about water and development. Most of the stories in the Asia Water Wire are the product of reporting on the ground by local journalists, many of whom attended a series of water workshops by the Asian Development Bank in the last few years.
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Water: private, limited - issues in privatisation, corporatisation and commercialisation of water sector in India
This booklet attempts to present: key issues in privatisation and commercialisation of water; global experiences of the promises and practices of privatisation, an overview of privatisation projects in the country, a broad picture of the commercialisation of the water sector under the reforms program, impacts of privatisation and commercialisation and emerging resistance, key players including the World Bank and Asian Development Bank and the roles played by them, and possible options to privatisation.
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Development and growth in Northeast India: the natural resources, water, and environment nexus
India's Northeast is rich in natural resources. While in terms of development
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What about the land-dependant?
Public discourse on the Singur imbroglio by and large revolves around how many landholders have handed over, or not handed over, their land to the government for the proposed Tata motorcar factory. It is as if the number of landowners is the sole indicator of the extent of
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Ameliorative initiatives
With the upsurge of Naxal activity, there has been a rethink on development and land reform programmes. Some efforts are being made, especially by the centre, to push the programmes in tribal belts. The perception that Maoist violence is not just a law and order issue is gaining ground.<br>
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ONLINE
www.devcomm.org/worldbank/public.asp DEVELOPMENTTALK The first World Congress on Communication for Development (WCCD) will take place from October 25-27, 2006, in Rome, Italy. Organised by