The Rwanda Economic Update edition 22 reviews the country’s macroeconomic performance and prospects and includes a special section focusing on Mobilizing Domestic Savings to Boost the Private Sector in
The World Social Forum WSF concluded in Mumbai. Then began the World Economic Forum in Davos. A little before these, a glitzy automobile fair in Delhi. One after the other, loud and strident
US policy limits agricultural yield of poor nations
NIDHI JAMWAL wonders what happened after Gurgaon got colonyfied
What about privatising water? Should India move to do it? What tips the scales in its favour, and what doesn t? In 2003, two editorials in Down To Earth tried to tackle such questions see: <a href="editor.asp?foldername=20030415&filename=Editor&sec_id=2&
The ongoing attempts to strengthen intellectual property protection regimes through the Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights TRIPS agreement, are choking knowledge transfers from the industrialised world to developing countries. And with private c
Over the last decade, governments around the world pursued policies to involve the private sector in the delivery and financing of infrastructure services. The scale of this move away from the hitherto dominant public sector model was far more rapid than had been anticipated at the start of the 1990s.
did the World Seed Congress 2003 held under a cloak of secrecy in Bangalore from June 7 to 11 have a hidden agenda? It transpires that the conference digressed from the stated objective of pump priming the Indian seed industry and, instead, ended up s
The Bush administration s agenda aims to savage the United Nations, destroy the foundations of an emerging global community and ignore increasingly shrill alarms from an overstressed natural world
The Karnataka government ostensibly allows private production of sandalwood, but actually maintains a tight rein on the trade. In fact, eight months after the notification of amendments in the Karnataka Forest Amendment Act 2001, stakeholders are yet to
Water User Associations in Maharashtra face unforeseen hurdles despite being successful. Why is the government stalling them?
