Trade and development report update: April 2024
The report forecasts global economic growth to 2.6% in 2024, barely above the 2.5% threshold commonly associated with a recessionary phase. The report says the prevailing focus on inflation overshadows
Trade
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South Asia
LTTE's water war: In the last week of July, the Sri Lankan army launched a ground offensive against Tamil tiger rebels to regain control over a key water reservoir in the northeastern city of
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A fish called subsidy
Promotes inequality between fishers and hampers sustainable development
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Get cracking!
Trade threatens Brazilian nuts
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REACH Africa s bane
Thabo Mbeki, President, African National Congress, expressed his concerns to the eu regarding its Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of Chemicals (reach) legislation. reach is designed to
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Thread less in 2005
Why weavers in Belgaum, Karnataka, can not go to market
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SEZ, how special?
Despite having burned its fingers with export processing zones, which mainly involved a number of substantial fiscal benefits, the government has gone into overdrive to push its new policy on special economic zones. The difference, this time around, is th
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The Bandipur Brazil corridor
In Bandipur: dung sold at Rs 3,000 a lorry load.In Brazil: a ravaged coffee crop. Asks <font class='UCASE'>nitin sethi</font> : what s the relation?
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Heavy metal
Russia recently imposed a ban on salmon imports from Norway from January 1, 2006. Moscow cited dangerously high levels of lead and cadmium in the fish and inadequate Norwegian monitoring system, as
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Windfall loss
Tax breaks Public money for private gain
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New nabobs
Will SEZs be fiefdoms, beyond the law?