India

 Cursory look at science development links

THAT SCIENCE and technology (in the broadest sense) have something to do with development is accepted now almost universally. From the discovery of iron to the harnessing of steam, technology has

Publication Date: 
30/03/1993
Shobhit Mahajan
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Health Effects, Development, Industry, India, Developing Countries
India

 Amnesty portrays India's warts in detail

IN DAYS long gone, the bearer of bad tidings was usually put to death unceremoniously. In today's more civilised times, we in the Third World prefer to vilify such messengers as biased agents of

Publication Date: 
30/03/1993
K T Oommen
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Environment, Children, Human Rights, India, Developing Countries, Women
India

 Integrated development essential for India

WESTERN urbanisation began with the Industrial Revolution and was accompanied by both economic and social development. But in India and most other developing countries, urbanisation does not reflect

Publication Date: 
14/03/1993
Srila Dasgupta
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Rural Habitat, Urbanisation, Economic Development, Industry, India, Developing Countries
Sanitation

 Helping slum dwellers to help themselves

Involving the community in slum improvement has worked successfully in the Philippines and Mexico. Hidebound bureaucrats in the Third World, who insist they know best, should learn a lesson from these experiments.

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14/03/1993
David Satterthwaite, Jorge E Hardoy
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Health Effects, Slums, Squatter Settlement, Sanitation, Philippines, Mexico, South America, Developing Countries
Sanitation

 Money Buys Least When Bureaucrats Spend It

Money Buys Least When Bureaucrats Spend It

Publication Date: 
14/03/1993
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Health Effects, Slums, Squatter Settlement, Sanitation, Philippines, Mexico, South America, Developing Countries
Industry

 New aspects to reporting Third World women

THE WOMEN'S Feature Service (WFS) is a news service that deals not just with equal rights for women, but with "development from a progressive, women's, or gender, perspective." It has transcended the

Publication Date: 
14/02/1993
Gail Omvedt
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Agriculture, Women, Industry, Sustainable Development, Developing Countries
Sanitation

 For a few dollars more...

Developing countries immunised 80 per cent of their children by 1990 and saved millions of lives. But 35,000 children, under five years of age, still die every day all over the world, because of malnutrition.

Publication Date: 
30/01/1993
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Malnutrition, Drinking Water, Sanitation, Children, Poverty, Education, UNICEF, Developing Countries
Economy

 The Future is Now

In 1992, the world moved several steps towards globalisation. But little attention was paid to the sharp economic, social and cultural divides. The rich world, troubled by recession, did not show much courage in dealing with them as it, too, began to feel

Publication Date: 
14/01/1993
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Rio Summit, Development, Economy, Migration, Aid, GATT, Biotechnology, Europe, Developing Countries
Economy

 Recession makes north renege on aid

Against a background of worldwide recession, the Rio conference came and went with many promises of aid by the Northern countries. But by the end of the year, nobody remembered those promises or the problems of the South. Even doughty donors like the Scan

Publication Date: 
14/01/1993
Johannes B Opschoor
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Rio Summit, Economy, United States Of America (US), Sustainable Development, Developing Countries
Forests

 Is lebelling wood good ?

The North and South disagree on classifying logged timber.

Publication Date: 
14/01/1993
Down to Earth
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Forests, Temperate Forests, NGO, Developing Countries

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