Hothouse sophistry
WHILE resource- and consumption-intensive development depresses most environmentalists, their ideas are acquiring popularity in ways little suspected. When a heat wave scorched parts of north and
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Flooded out
The cash-strapped Bihar government has plugged funds meant for the Jawahar Rozgar Yojana (JRY) for flood control measures. The state's rural development department has asked the district magistrates
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Woe the people
A citizen s report evaluates state policy and performance
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Buoyant wind market: India and China are among top five growing markets for wind energy
Worldwide wind energy Total installed capacity 2007
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Future in the past
LADAKHI tribals have started dreaming of going blonde, having blue eyes, owning 2 shiny cars and wearing skin-hugging jeans! There is a worrisome increase in the incidence of violence between
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New growth story
The fact that the boom in growth has been consumption-induced, services-dominated and credit-fuelled has implications for its sustainability. WITH the release of the quick estimates of national income, which show that gross domestic product (GDP) growth in 2006-07 touched 9.6 per cent, the government can legitimately claim that the recent acceleration in growth is not a short-lived phenomenon. After taking into account the performance in 2006-07, GDP growth as estimated by the Central Statistical Organisation (CSO) averages 8.75 per cent during the four-year period from 2003-04 to 2006-07 compared with just 4.67 per cent during the first three years of this decade. And, if forecasts by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and other sources are an indication, the advance estimates for 2007-08 are unlikely to be below this level. Five years of near 9 per cent growth do point to a new growth story. Underlying this turnaround in growth is a sudden step-up in the rates of investment (and saving) in the economy. Compared with an average level of 24.6 per cent during the four years from 1999-2000 to 2002-03, the gross domestic investment rate rose to 28.2 per cent in 2003-04 and then continued to climb to touch 35.9 per cent in 2006-07
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The politics of interventionism
We all recognise that if an international force on the scale proposed is committed to Somalia, against the opposition of the loco] warlords, then in effect you are seeing a takeover of a countiy by the international community.<br> <I>an unnamed
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Listing legume benefits
A COMPREHENSIVE database on legumes, the first of its kind in South Asia is being set up by Sudershan Kumar, a researcher at the National Botanical Research Institute, Lucknow. The bean family,
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US $758 million relief for Ethiopia
The Ethiopian economy has received a major boost in the form of debt relief by the Paris Club countries, comprising mainly Western nations, and the African Development Bank. Announcing the
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Sweet smell of sugar
Researchers have developed a painless technique for diabetes patients to regulate their glucose levels
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Website review: http://www.tarahaat.com
If you are a Net savvy villager in north India, Tarahaat.com could easily become your favourite haunt on the Web. For starters, the website offers email services in 11 Indian languages. The utility of the website goes beyond traditional Net services...
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Market towns in the Hindu Kush Himalayas: Trends and Issues
THIS publication is a collection of papers on the state of market towns and their trends in some countries of the Hindu-Kush Himalayan region. The role market centres in small towns play in the
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Population prompts progress
The experience of a Kenyan community contradicts a traditional theory that population and development are inversely proportional
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The biotech brigands
Developed nations are interpreting key clauses of the biodiversity treaty with the aim of protecting their own biotechnology industries from potential flak
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The Lima Deal: differentiation ends, negotiations begin for sharing the global carbon budget
<p><span style="line-height:115%;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Lima witnessed the end game of a 20 year old negotiation around doing away with differentiation between countries at different levels of development
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Tackling The MNC Menace
TO USHER in new technology and additional investment, and promote exports, Direct Foreign Investment (DFI) is advocated by several experts. All DFI'S opponents argue that multinational companies
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Water use stretched to the limits
FARMERS in the orange-growing regions of Warud and Morshi in Amravati district of Maharashtra refer to the area as "the California of Vidarbha." According to the directorate of horticulture, of the
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NAMAs: an effective opportunity to low-carbon transportation system
<p>This latest report by Center for Clean Air Policy, discusses the importance of addressing GHGs emission from transportation sector in developing countries and suggests supported NAMAs to provide an important opportunity to truly transform the transportation sector to low-carbon growth in many countries by implementing measures such as, BRT, land-use policies, and congestion pricing.</p>
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All about Alamatti
The Alamatti dispute between Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh joins the ranks of the nation s major wrangles over river waters
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International business report 2007: global issues
This report highlights the incompatibility between continued rapid growth in the global economy and the sustainability of the environment with global warming presenting an increasing threat to future living standards. In the first part of the report focus on climate change and the response of governments and companies. The second part contains results and analysis of data collected as part of the IBR survey, identifying the attitudes of privately held businesses towards global warming and what action they are taking to limit the effects.