This paper presented by Jyoti Parikh and Kirit Parikh at Development and Mitigation Forum 2014 held at Cape Town from 27-29, 2014 analyses the implications of development on GDP growth, expenditure and the resulting emissions.
Under the Bali action plan, developing countries are required to take Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions with financial and technical assistance.
The sluggish pace of India's power supply needs to be boosted to fuel the country's economic growth. High aggregate technical and commercial (AT&C) losses, which stood at around 33 per cent during 2006-07, stemming from electricity theft as well as transmission and distribution losses, are financially crippling most state electricity boards and distribution utilities.
The government is pushing ahead with its 'aam aadmi' campaign with the President I promising a National Food Security Act. Providing food to the poor is inherent to effectively combating poverty and, therefore, I feel the intention of the government is laudable.
TO USHER in new technology and additional investment, and promote exports, Direct Foreign Investment (DFI) is advocated by several experts. All DFI'S opponents argue that multinational companies
THIS small book is a fairly detailed technoeconomic analysis of the Enron controversy and raises some interesting questions. Apart from the problems of high capital cost and high load factor
THIS BOOK, a collection of articles by six authors, is meant to be a sequel to Blueprint for a Green Economy (Earthscan), which was published in September 1989. The theme of the earlier book was
