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 …
This paper examines selected policy issues of importance for achieving individual SDGs, drawing on recent analytical work conducted at the IMF. The topics examined include: how to achieve sustained economic growth in developing countries; how to ensure that economic growth is inclusive, reducing inequalities while benefiting all; and how to …
Subsurface drainage has been used for more than a century to keep water table at a desired level of salinity and waterlogging control. This paper has been focused on the impact assessment of pilot studies in India and some other countries from 1969 to 2014 . This review article may …
Cements role of Like-Minded Developing Countries block in Paris talks Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s meeting with climate change negotiators from 12 ‘Like Minded Developing Countries (LMDC)’ cemented relations within the group and placed India as a key member of the block, ahead of the final round of negotiations for the …
In December, more than 190 countries will meet in Paris for an annual conference which, this time, is expected to deliver a global agreement to fight climate change. India, the fourth largest emitter of greenhouse gases, is likely to play an important role. The CoP-21 The annual meeting is called …
Amid growing concerns among developing countries against the rich nations' mitigation-centric approach to arrive at a global climate deal, India on Tuesday lodged its strong objections to such an idea and said the Paris climate conference can be a success only if developed nations "do not indulge in a blame …
The world is well aware of the challenge of climate change and needs to be made aware about the principle of climate justice, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Tuesday. Modi met the heads of delegations of Like-Minded Developing Countries (LMDCs), here for a two-day meeting in the run-up to …
Ahead of the global meet on climate change, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday asked the developed world to be convinced that developing nations are not enemies of environment and pressed for changing the mindset that development and growth are inimical to ecology. The Prime Minister suggested that there should …
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has been named one of the winners of the United Nations’ highest environmental accolade for taking steps to address climate change. The premier will accept the prize, the Champions of the Earth Award in the Policy Leadership, at a ceremony in New York on September 27, …
As the world continues to struggle to find a common ground on key issues ahead of the Paris climate summit, official representatives of the Like-Minded Developing Countries (LMDCs), including China, met here on Monday to discuss how to push their joint negotiating stand during crucial rounds of negotiations in the …
Health officials seeking to curb the country's fast increasing cancer rate are implementing a three-year nationwide plan that expands cancer screening, registration and prevention while reducing smoking. Cancer has become a major public health problem, with some 2 million people dying of cancer every year and more than 3 million …
This working paper aims to inform the development community about the current state-of-knowledge and emerging thinking on the economics of adaptation and the application to development. The paper is based on a detailed review that has considered five key themes: The methods and framing for the analysis of adaptation; The …
ZAMBIA is among eight developing countries that will benefit from a US$12 million international climate change adaptation programme fund from Germany to help raise agricultural production and increase food security. Through the Integrating Agriculture in National Adaptation Plans programme, the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the United Nations Development …
New research suggests that by investing in low-carbon infrastructure, including transport, building efficiency, and waste management, cities could save $17 trillion by 2050, while also reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 3.7 gigatons of CO2 per year by 2030. The research, published by the New Climate Economy under the title …
Our only thought at the moment should be how more and more people can survive with dignity and equity, given the humongous change in the climatic conditions facing the state of Chhattisgarh. This was opined the experts at the day-long consultation on “National and State Perspective of Climate Change towards …
India on Monday appealed to countries across the globe to include a debate on "lifestyles" while arriving at a climate deal when they assemble in Paris later this year. This followed Prime Minister Narendra Modi's speech last week when he sought to change the discourse on the issue from "climate …
Under the 2014 US Farm Bill, US cotton producers will receive significant subsidies which will have trade-distorting effects irrespective of future cotton prices. At a futures market cotton price of US$ 0.70/lb, US subsidy programmes are likely to suppress artificially the world cotton price by almost 7 percent, and result …
Financial support for developing countries is a core issue under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Industrialised countries strongly emphasise the potential role of carbon markets in mobilising the required finance. In the research project “Analysis of the Role Carbon Markets Can Play for Global Climate Finance …
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) on Monday unveiled in Nairobi a ground-breaking air quality measuring device that has the potential to revolutionize air quality measurement in developing countries and help prevent deaths from air pollution.The device is expected to cost up to 100 times less than existing solutions The …
Every 40 seconds a person dies by suicide somewhere in the world. “Preventing suicide: a global imperative” is the first WHO report of its kind. It aims to increase awareness of the public health significance of suicide and suicide attempts, to make suicide prevention a higher priority on the global …
Climate variability and change are exacerbating many current climate-sensitive health outcomes and have the potential to affect the ability of health system institutions and organizations to maintain or improve health burdens in the context of changing climate and development patterns. Advancing management of these risks requires systems-based and holistic approaches …
