Asian Development Outlook- April 2025
<p>Weak consumption in the People’s Republic of China will partly offset robust domestic demand in South Asia. Disinflation is expected to continue, driven by lower food and energy prices, along
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The economics of nuclear power
The Economics of Nuclear Power examines the reasons behind the huge delays and cost over-runs which are common to nuclear power construction projects, and concerns over safety and reliability of new technology, concluding: that in country after country nuclear construction has gone massively over budget; that long construction periods are symptomatic of a range of problems including managing the construction of increasingly complex reactor designs, and inherent within the ailing nuclear infrastructure; that combined with the huge subsidies required, uncompetitively high prices, poor reliab
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Folk wisdom on locust breeding challenged
ARCHI RASTOGI it is said that locusts thrive in warm weather. Folk wisdom has it that the outbreaks of the oriental migratory locust (Locusta migratoria manilensis) follow either droughts or
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India: be the party pooper
US President George Bush played host to a party of the top polluters of the world called to discuss climate change. He exhorted his guests that the world needed to act and called for a new approach
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Three Gorges Dam: an environmental disaster
Hailed as one of the engineering feats of the 20th century, the Three Gorges Dam across China's Yangtze river is having a disastrous impact on the environment. Only a year after the completion of the
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ADB officials quit protesting policies
four senior officials quit the Asian Development Bank (adb) in July this year over the dilution of environmental and resettlement policy, triggering a crisis at the bank. All the officials were
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Cities as spaces of culture, constraints
Exhibition>> Global Cities, Tate Modern
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Cheap drive
Smallest vehicle segments are gaining popularity Nearly 40 per cent of the Chinese market is A and B segment. The B segment will increase by around 30 per cent till 2012 In Brazil about 50
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Dancing to country tunes
ADB says the big cost of implementing safeguard policies is a hindrance in its business with members like India and China. That is why it wants to use safeguard mechanism of borrower countries. India and China are pushing the bank in this direction. "There is pressure from middle-income countries on ADB for easy and quicker access to loans. It takes two years now to decide on a project due to stringent safeguard policies,' says Hemantha Withanage of NGO Forum on ADB, a Manila-based group. "In its hardsell to...
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German climate change initiative
german Chancellor Angela Merkel's backing for allocating emissions budgets on a per capita basis will come as sweet music to leaders of the developing world. This has been one of their key demands
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China suspends farmland to forest plan
To protect the country's food supply, the Chinese government has suspended a plan to convert farmland into forest. The move is to meet its pledge to keep at least 120 million hectares (ha) of arable