Economy

 How should tribal owners profit from forest wealth?

The gross tribal produce of Bastar is in excess of Rs 1,000 crore a year. Tribals, owners of the minor forest produce in terms of the Panchayat Extension to Scheduled Areas Act, 1996 receive around 20 per cent of the value of their produce. 80 per

Publication Date: 
30/08/2003
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Sanitation

 WATER: Fading glories

Kashmir’s dying lakes are choking their dependants

Publication Date: 
30/05/2003
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Lake Pollution, Ecotourism, Agriculture, Indus, Lakes, Wular, Canal Irrigation, Forest Policy, Deforestation, Timber Smuggling, Sanitation, Poaching, Economic Development, Finance, Peace, Jammu & Kashmir, Environment Management
Sanitation

 TOURISM & HANDICRAFTS: Backs to the wall

Militancy s most distressing casualties

Publication Date: 
30/05/2003
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Lake Pollution, Ecotourism, Agriculture, Indus, Lakes, Wular, Canal Irrigation, Forest Policy, Deforestation, Timber Smuggling, Sanitation, Poaching, Economic Development, Finance, Peace, Jammu & Kashmir, Environment Management
Sanitation

 The key: empowerment

Arouse people s interest in governance

Publication Date: 
30/05/2003
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Lake Pollution, Ecotourism, Agriculture, Indus, Lakes, Wular, Canal Irrigation, Forest Policy, Deforestation, Timber Smuggling, Sanitation, Poaching, Economic Development, Finance, Peace, Jammu & Kashmir, Environment Management
India

 Increased funding for bamboo project

China s stupendous success in exploiting bamboo for economic gains appears to have prompted India to follow suit. The heightened interest in this tallest member of the grass family is reflected in the latest Union budget

Publication Date: 
14/04/2003
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Environment, Bamboo, Housing, Economic Development, China, India
Health

 Commission for healthonomics

india has finally taken note of the correlation between health and economic deve-lopment. The Union government has set up the National Commission on Macro-economics and Health to understand the link

Publication Date: 
14/02/2003
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Health, Economy, Health Care, Economic Development, India
Energy

 Ivan Illich <br> 1926 2002

His thought leads out of the prison of routinized, sterile, preconceived notions

Publication Date: 
14/01/2003
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Transport, Health Care, Medical Research, Energy, Economic Development
Poverty

 The gap

Poverty is gendered

Publication Date: 
30/12/2002
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Women, Maternal Health, Economic Development, Poverty, Africa, Developing Countries, Statistics
Energy

 Breaking out of the lethal loop

Iceland to become the first hydrogen economy, to do away with fossil fuels

Publication Date: 
14/09/2002
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Renewable Energy, Geothermal Energy, Energy, Hydrogen Energy, Economic Development, Iceland
Environment

 Half hearted democracy

UNDP s Human Development Report 2002 offers a link between politics and development

Publication Date: 
30/08/2002
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Environment, Starvation, Development, Economic Development, Poverty, Community Groups, China, India, Developing Countries, Statistics, Pollution

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