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 …
KOLKATA, 20 JAN: The Cabinet sub-committee on industries chaired by the chief minister today once again failed to resolve the rate at which ceiling excess land would be leased out to industrialists because of a difference of opinion between land and land reforms and industries departments on the issue. Although …
This paper by International Land Coalition looks into the impact of new agricultural investments on land tenure and food security especially for rural communities, women and indigenous peoples, as well as the environment. This paper looks into the impact of new agricultural investments on land tenure and food security especially …
The people of Zimbabwe have to cope with a difficult political situation, but they also face many other problems daily. Climate change is making entire areas of land infertile and may halve crop yields by 2020. Zimbabwe
Kathmandu Valley has been subject to a rapid process of urbanization. Particularly noteworthy in recent years has been the spiraling price of land, with an associated boom in the real estate sector and land speculation. The drivers of this boom include: rural to urban migration, which in turn is driven …
Ranchi, Dec. 15: Jharkhand government and the Tata Group today agreed in principle to set up a trust or float a new company to execute the health insurance scheme meant for below poverty line (BPL) families in the state. The crucial decision was taken at a meeting presided over by …
KARACHI: The only ultimate remedy to save the country was to limit maximum land holdings and anybody owning land greater than set up by the government, should be distributed among poor farmers. This was stated by MQM chief Altaf Hussain on Tuesday in a telephonic address to MQM legislators at …
THE Union government has proposed giving conclusive ownership titles to landholders across India through the Land Titling Bill 2010. The draft bill, open for public comment till August 31, envisages a transition from registration of sale deeds to registration of ownership, thus ensuring the registration is proof of ownership. At …
Devjyot Ghoshal & Ishita Ayan Dutt / Kolkata/ Lalgarh (west Medinipur) August 10, 2010, 0:32 ISTPromises land rights for tribals, prods insurgents to give up violenceIf all roads were leading to Lalgarh early on Monday, by late afternoon there was hardly a way out of the town in the heart …
This paper considers the extent to which the Forest Rights Act 2006, potentially the most comprehensive institutional reform of forest rights in India since Independence, may ameliorate the high levels of chronic and acute poverty in forested areas of Andhra Pradesh.
Sabyasachi Bandopadhyay After Land and Land Reforms Minister Abdur Rezzaq Mollah and Housing and Public Health Engineering Minister Gautam Dev, it was West Bengal Assembly Speaker Hasim Abdul Halim who put Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhjattacharjee on the dock, saying it was some of the wrong policies of the state government …
KOLKATA: The State Government passed two Bills, including the West Bengal Land Reforms (Amendment) Bill 2010, on Monday amid noisy protests in the Assembly and a walkout by legislators of the Trinamool Congress and the Congress .The MLAs stormed into the well of the House soon after proceedings began and …
Trinamul Congress and Congress MLAs today staged a walk out in the Assembly demanding withdrawal of two Bills ~ The West Bengal Land Reforms (Amendment) Bill, 2010 and The West Bengal Acquisition of Homestead Land for Agricultural Labourers, Artisans and Fishermen (Amendment) Bill, 2010. The leaders of the Trinamul Congress …
The mainstream development literature tries to understand the changes in land relations through the lens of land reforms alone. Kerala provides an appropriate setting to understand how far radical redistributive land reforms have succeeded in transforming inequity in landownership. Our findings based on a micro-level village study show that the …
Additional Chief Secretary and Principal Secretary (Industries) T Balakrishnan has let loose a controversy by expressing his charging over the government decision to close down the bottling plant of Coca Cola. The unit at Palakkad had to wind up production over excessive exploitation of water and discharge of effluents. Earlier …
The Left in India seems to be in complete disarray. It does not look as if it can reinvent itself and make significant contributions to natio-nal politics. At the heart of the problem is its ‘success’ in West Bengal, where it has ‘ruled’ for over three decades. The most distinctive …
PRONAB MONDAL Dharampur (West Midnapore), May 25: Maoists in Lalgarh have said they would distribute among the poor and landless the land and property belonging to CPM leaders and workers who have fled the area. A local Maoist leader said on Sunday that the rebels would resist if the administration …
Whether from a class perspective or from a community identity perspective, it is undeniably the biggest failure that decades after the land reforms, a good majority of the dalits and adivasis in Kerala remain fully landless. In the context of the Supreme Court verdict of 21 July 2009, which rejected …
Horticulture, irrigation and land development works have been undertaken in 62.5 lakh hectare private lands of reserved and backward class people in the state under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. Giving this information, Minister for Panchayats, Rural Development and Social Justice Gopal Bhargava said that on one hand …
