Order of the High Court of Delhi in W.P.(C) 6444/2021 in the matter of Ratiram Ahirwar & Others Vs Delhi Building and Other Construction Workers Welfare Board & Others dated 13/07/2021. The Lieutenant Governor of Delhi in exercise of his power under Section 22 of the Building and Other Construction …
In troubled waters: The people of Gosaba Island in the Sundarbans of West Bengal waiting for the supply of drinking water from the government. KOLKATA: Even as the West Bengal government has stepped up efforts to ensure that adequate relief reaches storm victims, a debate is on over the procedures …
KOLKATA, 31 May: Following in the footsteps of Rajiv Gandhi, railway minister Miss Mamata Banerjee (photograph right) today insisted that the Central assistance should reach directly to zilla parishads and they should distribute the funds through panchayat samities and gram panchayats. She also criticised the state government for not distributing …
The Overseas Development Institute has coordinated a 10-country study on the effects of the global financial crisis and country level policy responses in Bangladesh, Benin, Bolivia, Cambodia, Ghana, Indonesia, Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda and Zambia. These countries exhibit different levels of openness, aid and remittance dependency, financial integration, economic and trade …
This new report by Oxfam International calls on governments and donor countries to prioritise investments in agriculture as a way of fighting poverty. It says that investing in agriculture will also help to ensure food security and mitigating climate change. Decades of faltering public commitment to investing in agriculture has …
bauxite mining Vietnam opens door to China Vietnam has invited a Chinese company to mine a massive bauxite reserve beneath its Central Highlands, despite growing opposition to mining and a deep-rooted suspicion of China. Deputy Industry Minister Le Duong Quang said the state-owned Vietnam National Coal would go ahead with …
Almost 250 million people around the world are affected by climate-related disasters in a typical year. This report projects that, by 2015, this number could grow by 50 per cent to an average of more than 375 million people. The predicted scale of humanitarian need by 2015 could completely overwhelm …
This policy brief calls for investment of 1% of global GDP in energy efficiency of buildings, renewable energy, sustainable transport, ecological infrastructure and sustainable agriculture.According to this, investing about US$750 billion of stimulus monies in the green economy could aid recovery from the economic downturn, create jobs, address poverty, promote …
Pilot project has helped producers boost their output, profits Mohammed Iqbal A unique project: International experts watching a crusher-cum-salt iodisation machine provided to small salt producers at Nawa under a UN World Food Programme-sponsored project. NAWA (RAJASTHAN): Self-help groups of salt producers in this dusty town situated near the historic …
New Delhi: India is sitting on unutilised foreign assistance of a whopping Rs 78,000 crore and paying commitment charges to the World Bank and Asian Development Bank for not using the sanctioned amount.
Although adequate country capacity is considered to be one of the critical missing factors in development outcomes, a lack of understanding of how capacity contributes to economic development and of how to account for the contribution of capacity development to economic growth remains a challenge. The purpose of this paper …
How one measures poverty and inequality has implications for a variety of policy interventions relating to fair allocation in a number of institutional settings. The distribution of international aid is an important case in point. This essay reasserts the importance of certain old-fashioned questions relating to international aid: what is …
Children being trained by a PECUC member at a children rights club in Bhogarai area of Balasore district. Hemant Kumar Rout I ENSFirst Published : 13 Oct 2008 09:21:00 AM ISTLast Updated : 13 Oct 2008 11:13:32 AM IST BALASORE: Having faced nature
The world food crisis, rapidly defined by those in power as a problem of insufficient production, has become a trojan horse to get corporate seeds, fertilisers and, surreptitiously, market systems into poor countries. As past experience shows, what looks like
Providing safe drinking water to poor families in the coastal area of Andhra Pradesh is critical for the economic development of the region as well as to improve health and living conditions. A community water project supported by the Global Partnership on Output-Based Aid (GPOBA) is increasing innovation and efficiency …
