Global megatrends such as income inequality, climate change, demographic shifts, technological progress, and urbanisation are shaping the future of societies. Yet, their quantitative impacts on development are neither well understood nor established. This paper examines the individual and combined effects of these global forces on poverty, using both cross-section and …
India's politicians never seem to think ahead. They have created three new states out of some of the poorest regions of India - Uttaranchal, Chattisgarh and Jharkhand - without any idea of how would these states survive economically without a huge and permanent largesse from the Centre. If the new …
The latest environmental fix in Delhi, once again under the pressure of the Supreme Court, is the relocation of polluting industries situated in the areas that are in non-conformity with the city's Master Plan. Four years went by without the government taking any serious action and now that the court …
The Supreme Court on Monday directed the Delhi Government to convene a meeting of bus manufacturers, including Telco and Ashok Leyland, and other parties (read the conversion companies ) to assess the possibility of providing CNG buses in the Capital. The apex court made it clear that there would be …
An all-party delegation on Cauvery, led by the Chief Minister, Mr. S.M. Krishna, will meet the Prime Minister, Mr. A.B. Vajpayee, on Saturday in New Delhi, and try to convince him that Tamil Nadu does not require any more water for its Kuruvai crop which has been harvested and is …
Just 10 kilometers from where the Nile begins its journey north, Bujagali Falls, with its wild stretches of nature, may soon become the site for East Africa's largest foreign investment project ever. AES Corp., a company based in Arlington, Virginia, that has grown into the world's largest independent power producer, …
Poverty is the crux of the present Adivasi issue. But top officials in the Forest Department, who have substantial expertise in the Adivasi sector, believe that the Government move to resolve it by distributing land to Adivasis is unlikely to alleviate their poverty soon since it is a long term …
In the wake of central government's order with regard to identification of the Below Poverty Line (BPL) families in the state which was again followed by a similar Supreme Court direction; the Tripura government said, the BPL families have already been identified in Tripura. According to the state government, the …
Sikkim can attain its potential to become the first poverty-free state in India if concerted public action focuses on ensuring balanced development, enlarging employment opportunities, safeguarding environmental resources and putting in place a responsive system of governance, the Sikkim human development report, which was released by Prime Minister Atal Behari …
Delhi has 4.11 lakh families or nearly 20 lakh people living below the poverty level, claims the Delhi Government. But this is not the true picture, it confesses in the same breath. There could be many more who are struggling to make ends meet in this bustling city, feel the …
Luknow University has decided to step up the process of setting up a Jyotir Vigyan(astrology) department by the end of the month according to the University Grants Commission's recommendations. The university move comes in the wake of the Supreme Court notices to the human resources development ministry and the UGC …
For the rural poor – who depend above all the land for their survival – a central development challenge is to sustain a base of natural capital that can support a robust local economy. In India, government mismanagement of forests, grazing lands, and water resources has often alienated rural people …
Government hospitals in India have a reputation for being noisy places. But there is a noticeable difference if you reach the oncology department. Even if it is more crowded than most other sections, you can sense a strange calm in the Institute Rotary Cancer Hospital of the All India Institute …
This analysis is based on two assumptions. l Cancer is linked to environmental pollution. l The poorest of the poor live in the most polluted environmental conditions. It is an effort to explore a third aspect with the strength of the first two: is cancer becoming an increasing problem among …
T he six cancer registries in India fail to give the true picture of cancer incidence as several cases go unreported. Vinod Raina, additional professor of medical oncology at aiims , recently stated in a television programme that only about 30 per cent of the patients diagnosed with cancer undergo …
W hile lung cancer's link with smoking has been publicised, its link with air pollution is considerably underplayed. "Data do suggest that urban smokers are more likely to develop lung cancer than rural smokers, even after accounting for smoking behaviour (how heavily a person smokes, what kind of cigarettes are …
on october 18, the Supreme Court ( sc ) cleared the construction of the Sardar Sarovar Project ( ssp ) dam on the Narmada River. Construction had been stayed in 1994 following a public interest petition by the Narmada Bachao Andolan ( nba ), which the court has now dismissed. …
the Clinton administration has proposed new rules to protect environmentally sensitive wetlands from rash development. The new rules, to be implemented after a 60-day period of public comment, would make the present regulations more comprehensive regarding what kind of wetlands development requires an environmental impact review by the government. The …
Killer, brigand, elephant poacher, sandalwood smuggler, forest goon, Call him what you will but Veerappan - the grandson of a Mettur Dam oustee remains a creature of the law. The media has discussed the abduction of Kannada thespian Rajkumar by the brigand Veerappan ad nauseum but it has missed a …
