Economic Development

The utopian trap

ROY, Tisdell and Sen"s book on economic development and the environment is certainly timely, having come out only months before the June UNCED summit at Rio. Interest in the subject is therefore at

Publication Date:

14/06/1992

Author(s): Prem Shankar Jha

Source: Down to Earth

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Issue:

19920615

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Tags:

Environment, Economic Development, India, Irrigation

Environment

Will liberalisation destroy the environment?

Get eight economists to discuss an issue and you"ll get nine opinions. Down to Earth did precisely that. Eight noted economists were invited, along with a scientist-activist, an industrialist, a bureaucrat and two educationists, to analyse the impact

Publication Date:

30/05/1992

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

Issue:

19920531

pp:

Tags:

Environment, Economic Development, International Monetary Fund (IMF), Textile Industry