Brazil

Bytes

calling trouble: As per a study of Sweden-based Karolinska Institutet, 10 or more years of mobile phone use increases the risk of acoustic neuroma, a tumour on the auditory nerve. no more

Publication Date:

29/11/2004

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

13

Issue:

20041130

pp:

0

Tags:

Marine Ecosystems, Health Effects, Endangered Species, Genetic Engineering, Research, Sweden, United Kingdom (UK), Australia, Brazil, Electronics, Toxins

India

When the G 20 holds

World trade negotiations are bound to be more multilateral

Publication Date:

30/08/2004

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

13

Issue:

20040831

pp:

0

Tags:

Agriculture, Trade, WTO, China, Brazil, India, Developing Countries

India

Hectic parleys

The G 20 bloc of nations faces new challenges

Publication Date:

14/08/2004

Author(s): Clifford Polycarp

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

13

Issue:

20040815

pp:

0

Tags:

Agriculture, Africa, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, India, European Union (EU)

Agriculture

Farm trade principles

G-20 suggests parameters to cut agricultural tariffs

Publication Date:

14/07/2004

Author(s): Clifford Polycarp

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Agriculture, Trade, WTO, South Africa, China, Argentina, Brazil, India, European Union (EU)

Sanitation

Women, convenience

Unheard Voices of Women

Publication Date:

30/05/2004

Author(s): Nidhi Jamwal

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Slums, Sanitation, Lowcost Toilets, Women, UN, Tanzania, Brazil

Wildlife

Rabid about food

An unprecedented outbreak of rabies in a northeastern province of the Amazon basin has left 15 people dead around Portel, a sparsely populated region of Brazil. Seven cases were diagnosed by

Publication Date:

14/05/2004

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

12

Issue:

20040515

pp:

0

Tags:

Rabies, Wildlife, Brazil

Agriculture

Get cracking!

Trade threatens Brazilian nuts

Publication Date:

30/01/2004

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Agriculture, Amazon, Trade, Economy, Brazil

Air Pollution

Stupid growth

The Sensex stock index has risen by 75 per cent since April this year. The rupee is at a three year high. Global investment analysts Goldman Sachs predict that India is the fastest growing of the

Publication Date:

29/11/2003

Author(s): Sunita Narain

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

12

Issue:

20031130

pp:

13

Tags:

Trade, Economy, Economic Development, Finance, Exports, Imports, Poverty, Industry, China, Russia, Brazil, India, Global

Industry

The tone and tenor of the failed Fifth World Trade Organization WTO Ministerial Conference in Cancun found an echo in the annual meetings of the World Bank WB and International Monetary Fund IMF in Dubai from September 20 to 22

Publication Date:

30/10/2003

Author(s): Sopan Joshi

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Trade, WTO, Subsidies, Industry, World Bank, NGO, Brazil, Developing Countries, European Union (EU)

Forests