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Agriculture

 SOUTH AFRICA

South Africa and Namibia have rejected an offer of the us to provide financial assistance for purchasing anti- aids drugs. A total of us $1 billion was offered by the us

Publication Date: 
29/09/2000
Down to Earth
Tags:
Drugs, Drug Industry, Economic Development, Aid, Africa, United States Of America (US), Debt
India

 Indebted forever

Since 1985, countries -- particularly in Latin America -- have negotiated several arrangements to reduce their crippling debt burden. They promptly ended up losing the right to decide what to do with

Publication Date: 
Tuesday, March 14, 1995
Down to Earth
Tags:
Development, South America, Statistics, Debt
Forests

 Farmers' long march to the city

A cash strapped Chinese government is trying to prevent unpaid farmers from moving to the cities in search of more money.

Publication Date: 
27/02/1994
Down to Earth
Tags:
Urban Habitat, Rural Habitat, Migration, Farmers, China, Debt
Poverty

 Tax the rich and help the poor survive

WHAT DOES the International Monetary Fund have to do with land degradation? On the face of it, nothing. But in reality, quite a lot. A degraded landscape in an increasingly integrated world is

Publication Date: 
14/09/1993
Down to Earth
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Tags:
Land Degradation, Cash Crops, Exports, FAO, International Monetary Fund (IMF), Debt
Forests

 Starve a child to repay a debt

External debt has proved an albatross around the neck of African nations. At least two thirds of their total debt will have to be written off if they are to revive their economies

Publication Date: 
14/09/1993
Down to Earth
Tags:
Children, UNDP, World Bank, Africa, International Monetary Fund (IMF), Debt
Industry

 Strong medicine

ONTARIO Hydro's newly appointed chairman, Maurice Strong, has initiated steps to reduce the corporation's debt and review its operations, including its nuclear programme. Ontario Hydro, Canada's

Publication Date: 
29/04/1993
Down to Earth
Tags:
Canada, Nuclear Power, Private Sector, United States Of America (US), Debt
Environment

 Dutch to pay ecological debts

The Netherlands is negotiating with Bhutan, Costa Rica and Benin a long term reciprocal development treaty that is based on Dutch assumption that rich nations must pay for their overuse of natural resources.

Publication Date: 
14/02/1993
Down to Earth
Tags:
Ecology, Global Environmental Agreements, Netherlands, Costa Rica, Debt
Air Pollution

 Southern trade losses offset gains in capital

Financial transfer estimates that generously portray Northern largesse are deceptive for they camouflage huge payments triggered by the Gulf war.

Publication Date: 
30/01/1993
Down to Earth
Tags:
Trade, Aid, UN, War, Africa, Egypt, Iraq, Developing Countries, Debt
Energy

A how-to-guide: Measuring subsidies to fossil fuel producers

The production of fossil fuels

Publication Date: 
30/06/2010
The Global Subsidies Initiative
Tags:
Energy, Fossil Fuels, Subsidies, Energy Policy, Global, India, Land Acquisition, Debt
Energy

Private financing of renewable energy: a guide for policymakers

This Guide provides an outline of how financing renewable energy works, with a particular focus on more mature end of the market i.e. the proven technologies that can be deployed now and at scale. It aims to show how policy looks and where it fits in from a financing perspective; as well as the range of other factors that need to be taken into account in doing an actual project or deal.

Publication Date: 
01/12/2009
Sophie Justice
UNEP
Tags:
Energy Efficiency, Renewable Energy, Energy, Energy Technology, Finance, Debt

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