2023 disasters in numbers
In 2023, the Emergency Events Database (EM-DAT) recorded a total of 399 disasters related to natural hazards. These events resulted in 86,473 fatalities and affected 93.1 million people. The economic losses
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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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Deep despair
20,000 workers die in China s coal mines every year
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The new Money plant
The seeds of a plant called jatropha yield oil that, after processing, makes biodiesel. It can reduce India s burgeoning oil import bill. And there s lots of money to be made. But who will earn? What land will be used for this? <font class='UCASE'>down t
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Environment, genes, and breast cancer
New evidence on an old killer
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Windfall loss
Tax breaks Public money for private gain
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Marine fisheries growing as energy intensive centres
Marine fisheries have become very energy intensive
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New nabobs
Will SEZs be fiefdoms, beyond the law?
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A safety valve!
Alarmed by super rapid industrialisation in Asia and the Pacific, the Asian Development Bank suggests urgent corporate voluntary action and diluted regulations
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Job lot
An employment survey updates some known things and throws up some new ones
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Diversity in calorie sources and undernourishment during rapid economic growth
This paper compares the experiences of India and Vietnam in dietary diversity and undernourishment from the early 1990s to the middle of the first decade of the new millennium. Feb 23-29, 2008