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Banking on climate change 2017
Some of the world’s top banks are continuing to lend tens of billions for extracting the most carbon-intensive fossil fuels, according to a report of top lenders. Finance provided for these fossil fuels
Finance
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2 farmers commit suicide in Madhya Pradesh in two days
One was having a debt burden of Rs. 6 lakh and another had taken a loan of Rs. 7 lakh The agrarian distress in Madhya Pradesh continued to claim lives, with at least two debt-ridden farmers allegedly
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Isolation, fiscal stress behind farm suicides, finds US study
Poor access to quality healthcare, isolation and financial stress put farmers at a high risk of suicide, a new US study suggests. Researchers at the University of Iowa have found that the number of suicides
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Agriculture sector lending declines
According to the Bank of Tanzania (BoT) economic bulletin for the quarter ending March this year the annual growth of banks lending to agriculture sector registered negative growth of 9.2 per cent compared
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Sending money home: contributing to the SDGs, one family at a time
The amount of money migrants send to their families in developing countries has risen by 51 per cent over the past decade - far greater than the 28 per cent increase in migration from these countries,
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Farmers wilfully defaulting on loans in hope of waiver
Expectation of loan waiver has prompted farmers across states to stop repayment of money owed to financial institutions. This adds pressure on banks that are already grappling with a record pile of bad
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Tanzania injects US 94 million dollars into agriculture bank to help farmers
DAR ES SALAAM Tanzania (Xinhua) -- The Tanzanian government on Monday injected 94 million U.S. dollars into the country’s Tanzania Agriculture Development Bank (TADB) to help empower farmers. The money,
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UNECE renewable energy status report 2017
Despite comprising over 300 million inhabitants and representing 4.9% of the world’s GDP, 17 UNECE countries in South and Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia had only 0.2% or USD 0.4 billion
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Maharashtra village tense after farmer suicide
PUNE: Tension spiked on Thursday in Karmala taluka of Maharashtra's Solapur district after a suicide note left behind by a 42-year-old farmer mentioned that his body should not be cremated till CM Devendra
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Cabinet approves IPO of Indian Renewable Energy Development
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs on Wednesday announced giving approval to issue 13,90,00,000 fresh equity shares of Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency (IREDA) of Rs.10 each to the public