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 …
function table() { var popurl="image/20050731/27-graph.jpg" winpops=window.open(popurl,"","width=400,height=350,scrollbars=yes") } Himachal Pradesh (hp) is a pioneer state. Thanks to an economic evaluation of its forest resources, by Madhu Verma of the Indian Institute of Forest Management, Bhopal, it now knows that, every year, its forests provide benefits worth over Rs 100,000 crore. This …
I n India, forest evaluation is an emergent practice. And those that have done so have realised its immense utility: the benefits from Himachal Pradesh's (hp's) forests, Verma's evaluation shows, are 2.61 times the value of the growing stock, 980 times the total expenditure incurred by the state's forestry sector …
function table() { var popurl="image/20050731/33-table.pdf" winpops=window.open(popurl,"","width=550,height=350,scrollbars=yes") } Currently, India's forestry sector is in quite a mess. But the fact that it is possible to quantify
• Kanchan Chopra has valued the biodiversity of Keoladeo national park using the travel cost method (TCM) to value tourism and recreation. TCM assumes people value a forest in terms of the cost of getting there as well as the opportunity cost of time spent travelling. A survey of people …
the Millennium Ecology Assessment (mea), an outcome of an exercise undertaken by a global think tank under the United Nations (un), is out with fanfare. It is a scientific consensus report outlining the relationships of ecosystems all over the globe and their service capacity with human activity. We take it …
This paper examines the main ways in which Payments for Environmental Services (PES) might affect poverty. PES may reduce poverty mainly by making payments to poor natural resource managers in upper watersheds. The extent of the impact depends on how many PES participants are in fact poor, on the poor’s …
The principle objective of this study is to generate economic value of various goods & services provided by the Himachal Forests. It recognizes the multi-stakeholders, multisectoral contribution of forests through their multiple values.
The Global Soil Biodiversity Initiative (GSBI) and EcoFINDERS are pleased to announce the First GSBI Conference - Assessing Soil Biodiversity and its Role for Ecosystem Services, to be held in Dijon, France, December 2-5th, 2014. This will be a dynamic international meeting summarizing the current state of knowledge and recent …
