The IMF’s April 2025 Regional Economic Outlook for Sub-Saharan Africa presents a clear warning: regional growth is slowing, debt pressures are mounting, and donor assistance is declining. Yet the report outlines critical opportunities particularly in domestic revenue mobilization, structural reform, and private sector activation that can shape a more resilient …
The Round Table Meeting (RTM) for Bhutan is the most important forum for policy dialogue and aid coordination between the Royal Government and its development partners. Held once every two and a half years, the last RTM for Bhutan, the 10th, was held successfully in Thimphu, Bhutan, from 17th -18th …
The purpose of this assessment is to identify the constraints to and opportunities for women‘s participation in REDD+ initiatives, particularly as country REDD+ readiness plans are being developed, as well as to reveal the potential impacts of gender relations on REDD+ initiatives and vice versa. Additionally, this study aimed to …
While international discussions began in earnest in 1992 with the creation of a United Nations (UN) convention on the topic,1 global climate change politics has recently risen sharply in political importance, infusing diplomatic discussions well beyond the boundaries of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC). For example, in …
Speaking to BW, the Union minister of urban development and poverty alleviation, Kamal Nath, points out that the challenge is to clear the backlog Over the past 20 years, India’s urban infrastructure has improved a lot. Yet, the pressure on power supply, road connectivity, water, and housing has increased. Some …
The revelations of the Karnataka Lokayukta report are symptomatic of a larger story that goes beyond corruption in high places. There has been a neglect of state institutions and decisions by the executive are taken not under consultation with the assembly but as decreed by a new religious math-temple-resort complex …
When companies upscale their green quotient and corporate governance goes paper-free, it's time to sit up and take notice. Going green has been part of corporate-speak for several years, but never before has it occupied as much mind-space of shareholders at AGMs. But, then, nor has the Ministry of Corporate …
An additional 3 billion Asians could enjoy living standards similar to those in Europe today, and the region could account for over half of global output by the middle of this century, says this ADB report. This potentially promising future for the region sometimes referred to as the "Asian Century" …
In ten forest hotspot countries across Africa and South Asia, the IIED-steered Forest Governance Learning Group (FGLG) has been working since 2003 on ways to shift power over forests towards those who enable and pursue sustainable forest-linked livelihoods. This report aims to capture the current thinking and plans of FGLG. …
The focal topic of the WorldRiskReport 2011 is governance and civil society. The report examines the natural hazards related issues at the global level and draws conclusions for future actions in assistance, policy and reporting. The core of the WorldRiskReport is the WorldRiskIndex, which was developed on behalf of the …
This report examines role of the Indian agricultural companies engaged in overseas agricultural land acquisitions in Africa, Asia and Latin America & the negative consequences of such a trend. This report explores the role of Indian agricultural companies that have been involved in the recent trend in large-scale overseas acquisitions …
Over the past few years, Nepal has become increasingly involved in international efforts to mitigate climate change through an emerging global mechanism called reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, and enhancing forest carbon stocks in developing countries (REDD+). This discussion paper examines the interactions among diverse institutions and actors …
This new UNDP report highlights the development challenges faced by people who live in drylands and outlines how these challenges can be tackled successfully. The purpose of this publication is to highlight the development challenges faced by people who live in drylands and to outline how these challenges can be …
While the outcomes of the Lok Sabha and the state assembly elections have been well documented and analysed, little is known about the electoral geography in urban areas. In discussing the conflicting interests of local politics and urban development, this article places the definition and understanding of what is “urban” …
This Policy is aimed at laying down an overarching policy framework for infusing competition principles in various policies, statutes and regulations and promoting a competitive market structure in the economy, thereby striving to achieve maximum economy efficiency in various spheres, and public welfare.
The Supreme Court is to be commended for its order banning the Salwa Judum. But the Salwa Judum was already a thing of the past; its worst phase was in 2005-06. The violence now in the amoral war in Chhattisgarh is being conducted as part of Operation Greenhunt. When will …
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Watersheds face a range of degradation challenges associated with human activities, such as pollution, deforestation and changes in sediment generation. The way they are managed has a profound cascading effect on natural resources and communities in the wider basin. Although watersheds play a critical role as the basic hydrological unit …
How the State has responded to the fasts of Anna Hazare, Baba Ramdev and Medha Patkar and how the media has portrayed them are a study in contrasts and say something about our society.
The “authoritarianism vs democracy” divide in the ongoing anti-corruption movement is a false one. It conceals the real unity of interests between the authoritarian upper middle class elitist agenda and the political class supposedly defending Indian democracy today. Where do the poor figure here?
