Small island developing States (SIDS) face an uphill battle as they strive to recover from the impact of the COVID-19 crisis amid vulnerabilities worsened by the pandemic. The 2021 edition of UNCTAD’s Development and Globalization: Facts and Figures report, highlights the numerous strengths and challenges facing these economically vulnerable countries. …
The United States and the European Union have in recent years initiated negotiations on a large number of bilateral and regional trade agreements. These agreements tend to push trade liberalisation much further than is possible under the multilateral trade regime. These rtas also include rules which are likely to reduce …
Slowdown will push millions back into poverty: PM Ashish Kumar Sen writes from Washington Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, warning that a slowdown of growth in the developing countries will push millions of people back into poverty and have an adverse effect on nutrition, health and education levels, on Saturday said …
Meet Calls For Coordinated Fiscal Stimulation TK Arun WASHINGTON THE G20 summit on financial markets and the global economy concluded on Saturday with the usual m
Is the world facing a supply crunch due to geology or to inadequate investment? What type of post-Kyoto policy framework could stabilise greenhouse gases at low concentration levels? The answers to these burning questions and more are laid out in the World Energy Outlook 2008. The World Energy Outlook is …
Indian physicist and environmental activist Vandana Shiva said the financial crisis showed it was high time for countries to rebuild local, diverse farms to become independent from global turmoil. "The lesson to be learned from the financial meltdown is that the world is at a tipping point," Shiva told Reuters …
Global health has in recent years drawn increasing scientific, political and popular attention not only due to global epidemics themselves,but also because of the social activities and environmental conditions that shape health threats and influence those who are affected. Factors that contribute to the emergence and increase of health threats …
Access to safe and affordable water is considered to be a basic human right, yet the universal reality does not reflect this principle. A lack of adequate capacity and financing, and national policies which often rely on unsustainable use of water resources, prevent effective and sustainable provision of safe water …
Wanton usage of forest land in the name of development has destroyed efforts towards community-led measures for protection and conservation in Orissa. The laxity in framing adequate environmental laws and the flouting of even the existing laws have had disastrous effects on the livelihoods of forestdwelling people in the state.
A critical evaluation of the area yield crop insurance scheme implemented in the state of Orissa reveals that it has several flaws and there is a need to redesign it as crop insurance scheme to increase the breadth of coverage, improve the operational efficiency and enhance financial performance. Rainfall insurance …
As the collapse of the trade talks in Geneva in July made clear, there is no longer any meaningful trade negotiation without the main nations from the emerging world. The year 2008 may go down in history as the one in which rich countries discovered that this applies to macroeconomic …
The food processing industry is one of the largest industries in India and ranked fifth in terms of production, consumption, export and growth prospects. India, which is the second largest food producers in the world, lags behind when it comes to food processing which is very essential for increasing shelf …
Importance of food management and maintaining food security the world over has been abundantly recognized since long. India plays a very important role by its contribution in world's food production, accounts for more than 10 percent of total world's foodgrain production. The present study has been undertaken to study the …
This report provides a reminder of what know about the gains from international trade and highlights the challenges arising from higher levels of integration. It addresses a range of interlinking questions, starting with a consideration of what constitutes globalization, what drives it, what benefits does it bring, what challenges does …
Robert J Samuelson WASHINGTON WE'VE been having the wrong discussion about globalisation. For years, we've argued over whether this or that industry and its workers might suffer from imports and whether the social costs were worth the economic gains from foreign products, technologies and investments. By and large, the answer …
Today's world trade volume is 27 times that of 1950. Trade liberalisation has made no small contribution to global warming due to spectacular growth in the transportation industry. Today, when they need to negotiate the climate regime to replace the Kyoto Protocol after 2012, industrial and developing countries bicker over …
