The Directorate of Economics and Statistics, Assam has been publishing this annual report “Economic Survey, Assam” regularly with a view to focus the trends of performance based development of the State economy.

Adaptation to climate change in developing countries is to a large extent about building resilience, including social and institutional responsiveness to change. In that sense it is about “development.” However, adaptation finance is not development assistance.

A huge population size, a rapidly growing economy and increasing levels of urbanization, coupled with the dwindling sources of freshwater, have made management of urban water supply one of the most important priorities in the development agenda of India.

This Economic Survey attempts to present in detail the current status of the overall state economy as well as its various sectors. This would include all the efforts made by the state government sectorwise and its achievements in respective sectors. It would simultaneously try to underline some of the constraints of growth of the state economy.

TRANSfer Project published a first draft of its Handbook "Navigating Transport NAMAs". The purpose of the handbook is to provide practitioners in the transport sector around the world with practical step-by-step guidance on how to design and implement climate change mitigation actions in this complex sector.

This report seeks to highlight the issues of financing climate policies in developing countries and the place of NAMA within the solutions that are currently under discussion. The first part of this report will examine the question of the definition and monitoring of quantitative international climate financing commitments.

The global economic crisis of 2008-2009 led to a sharp reduction of growth worldwide with an increase in millions of poor persons. The World Bank Group responded with an unprecedented expansion of support, especially to middle income countries.

This report highlights promising examples of successful collaborations already under way, such as India’s National Solar Mission; Kenya’s efforts to design an investment-grade renewable energy strategy; the South Africa Water Partners Network; and the Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania.

This focus note first describes the challenges of the broader financial inclusion landscape and explores three roles that government can play in developing more financially inclusive ecosystems. It also discusses various ways in which the development community can support government actors to focus their efforts on this new inclusive ecosystem.