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Sub-Saharan Africa’s Economic Outlook 2025: Navigating Uncertainty and Aligning Policy for Sustainable Recovery

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 …

Real estate on water

Concrete drama Actsaid the court. The government did not. The realtors are at the deep end now since April 182001new construction activity in Ahmedabad has virtually come to a standstill. The realtors of the commercial capital of Gujaratone of the two most industrialised states of Indiaare desperate. Builder after builder …

CONTROVERSIAL CONSTRUCTION

The Karnataka High Court quashed the Karnataka state pollution control board (KSPCB) order, which rejected an application filed by Vijaynagar educational trust seeking environmental clearance for constructing a building on the banks of Kumdvathi river near Bangalore. The court gave the go-ahead to the trust for the construction work, subject …

Owning up

Two months after four people were killed in Dewas, Madhya Pradesh (MP), the state government seems to be finally owing up its responsibility. Albeit with a lot of pressure, compensations have been given and activists have been released from custody. However, it seems that the larger issues are still to …

Nowhere!

"Uncleared debris is a grim reminder of the tragedy. It stops the mind from functioning, prevents action on part of the people. It is a hurdle to moving ahead.'

Trouble in Dewas

the Madhya Pradesh government would like to forget it. The residents of Dewas district, however, will remember it for the rest of their lives. Four people were killed in a confrontation between the administration and the tribal people at Mehendikheda village, about 100 km from the district headquarters of Dewas, …

kangra safe corners

T he merit of kat-ki-kunni (timber-cornered building) of Himachal Pradesh can be traced back to 1905, if not earlier. A massive temblor levelled every village from Dharamsala to Kangra. Measuring 8.0 on the Richter scale, it lasted two minutes and was felt over 416,000 sq km. But, buildings with kat-ki-kunni …

Safe as houses

Earthquakes don't kill; badly built houses do. This time-tested observation becomes a clich

UTTARKASHI

At 2.53 am on October 25, 1991, a moderate earthquake measuring 6.6 on the Richter scale affected more than 425,000 people of about 2,100 villages in the districts of Uttarkashi, Tehri and Chamoli in what was then Uttar Pradesh and is now the hill state of Uttaranchal. Traditionally built timber …

North East

A massive earthquake had razed Shillong to the ground in 1897. This led to the creation of the

DEFORESTATION

The forest at Chakaria in Cox Bazar district has been denuded. According to a report in The Bangladesh Observer influential people have undertaken construction on these lands thus destroying the valuable resources. The ministry of forests had leased out these forests in 1972, ingnoring the importance of ecological balance of …

Protecting hill stations

a total ban on construction of farmhouses in green zones and immediate demolition of illegal structures in the Mahabaleshwar and Panchgani hill stations of Satara district in the state of Maharashtra has been recommended by a high-level committee headed by the divisional commissioner of Pune. The Mumbai High Court had …

Tile tales

Low-cost housing has remained on the agenda of policy makers for long now. Various options have been tried for building a dream house that would not only be affordable to the multitudes but will also retain an aesthetic appeal. The innovative tile built recently by the research team led by …

Green architecture: design for a sustainable future

This book provides a balanced international overview of the way forward, showing how choice of materials and construction processes, response to landscape and climate, and - not to be forgotten - the involvement of users, can together solve environmental problems and produce a diverse architecture to suit human and regional …

Eco friendly building

FOR years, technical book alternative materials and cost building tech have been regularly lished. Government semi-government org tions like Housing Urban Development ration have published erous books and technical papers that have been usefull to the practitioner of alternative tive architecture. Build your own How to the Rhythm of life …

Homing in on tradition

OLD is gold... and "green", and nowhere is it more true than in the case of sustainable models of low-energy, climatically responsive architectural designs. This realisation brought together architects and designers in a recently concluded workshop at Delhi's School of Planning and Architecture (SPA). Some 20 eminent architects from Israel, …

Doing away with wood

INHABITANTS of the vast Sahel desert need no longer wander in search of wood -- a scarce and consequently, expensive commodity in a desert -- when they construct a house. They can instead build woodless domed and vaulted roofs made entirely of mud, thanks to a technology developed by a …

China bans bicycles, while USA goes back to mud houses

CANTON will soon wear a different look as its commuters abandon the traditional bicycle for other modes of transport. In a dramatic step to ease traffic congestion, Cantonese officials intend to restrict and eventually ban the environment-friendly carrier, the China News Service (CNS) reports. CNS says the plan to crack …

When wind and water run riot

What can be done When Elements that sustain life -- air and water Turn to destroy...? -- Dasarathi, the acknowledged poet laureate of Andhra Pradesh. DASARATHI'S poem was inspired by the fury of the killer cyclone that crossed the Andhra coast at Chirala during the evening of November 19, 1977, …

Baker honoured

Union urban development minister Sheila Kaul has presented Laurie Baker, the innovative architect lauded for his low-cost construction techniques, with the United Nations Habitat Scroll of Honour for 1992. The award was presented to him on World Habitat Day (October 5). Baker has a simple rule-of-thumb for deciding which material …

Out in the cold

EVEN AS the Central Public Works Department (CPWD) goes ahead with Delhi's first mass residential colony based on solar passive architecture, architects continue to hold reservations about the project. Officials in the department of science and technology (DST), which is bearing half the project's research and development costs of Rs …

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