Growth in Asia and the Pacific outperformed expectations in late 2023, reaching 5.0 percent for the year. Inflation has continued to decline, albeit at varying speeds: some economies are still seeing sustained price pressures, while others are facing deflationary risks.In 2024, growth is projected to slow modestly to 4.5 percent. …
Global host of the World Environment Day, India, reiterated the need to approach the issue of environment, livelihood and development as a composite whole. Forests, which is the focus of this year
Investing an additional $40 billion annually in the forestry sector can halve deforestation rates by 2030, increase rates of tree planting by about 140 per cent by the year 2050, and catalyse the creation of millions of new jobs, according to a report by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP). Backed …
Bangladesh should go for calculating disaster losses so that it could make prior investments to reduce peoples' vulnerabilities and economic losses caused by disasters, experts said yesterday. While casualty rate from disasters came down in Bangladesh and elsewhere, financial loses from a large proportion of damage to local infrastructure, housing …
Green bonds could raise hundreds of billions of dollars a year to spur a shift to cleaner economic growth if governments set strong environmental goals such as for slowing climate change, the OECD said on Wednesday. In a review of efforts to promote greener growth, it urged more innovation to …
JAMMU, The State is expected to fall well short of the growth rate of 8 per cent during 11th five year plan, which is passing into its last year. During first four years of current five year plan, the State hasn
Addis Ababa Prime minister Manmohan Singh will take a final call on the draft national manufacturing policy on June 2. The existing policy is being overhauled to a give a leg up to the domestic manufacturing sector which has shown signs of stagnation. The objective of the policy is to …
The monetary value of agriculture sector during the last five years has increased by Rs 810.292 billion to Rs 5,670.77 billion, as it was Rs 4,860.477 billion in 2006. But, in real terms, it is declining. According to monthly economic bulletin of Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI), agriculture accounted for …
Delhi is ranked third among states and UTs in respect of per capita income at current prices, said Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit today releasing a report of Estimated State Domestic Products of Delhi for the year 2010-11 with base year 2004-05. As per advance estimates, per capita income will be …
At Rs.1,35,814 it ranks third highest in the country, reveals report The per capita income of Delhi at current prices for the year 2010-11 ranked third among all States and Union Territories in the country, only behind Goa and Chandigarh, Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit said on Friday while releasing a …
The world must curb soaring use of resources ranging from coal to copper to prevent consumption from reaching ruinous levels by 2050, according to a U.N. report on Thursday that says China's economy will be a test case. All countries should seek economic growth that does not rely on increasing …
Targeting a 9% plus growth rate in the Twelfth plan period, the Government has initiated an exercise to assess the impact of economic growth on the environment. An expert group, headed by environmental economist Partha Dasgupta, will provide a road map for Green National Accounting (GNA) system to evaluate impact …
New Delhi Even as the debate on environment versus growth continues, the government on Monday said it will conduct an assessment of the impact of GDP growth on ecology using a green accounting system. It will set up an expert group to evaluate the impact of economic growth on environment …
Seeing the unregulated mining and quarrying operations in various parts of the country (not to mention those under the very nose of policy makers and regulators) that disproportionately benefit the operators and harm (net and long term) the uninformed communities in the vicinity in particular, and the citizens in general, …
Their report captures the urgent concerns of the most marginalised, neglected communities Civil society groups have recommended that the Approach Paper to the 12th Five Year Plan provide access to essential entitlements and development opportunities for the marginalised and increase investments in public services such as health, education, skill development, …
It will be a major improvement over current system, says Jairam Ramesh The Union government is in the process of setting up a National Environmental Appraisal and Monitoring Authority (NEAMA) as part of efforts to bring in institutional reforms and improve environmental governance, Union Minister of State for Environment and …
The high living standards of the population in the west have been maintained by drawing from the ecological resources of the developing countries and this fact of environmental debt has been largely unrecognized or has not been researched up to now. The externalities or costs to the environment are not …
