This report examines the region's key short and medium-term prospects and challenges in macroeconomic and selected social areas, especially from the point of view of minimizing human suffering; be it from economic hardships or social instability. The Survey also explores critical long-term development issues relevant to all developing countries in the region.

Removing investment barriers and developing markets for renewable energy and energy efficiency is the core focus of UNEP's sustainable energy and climate finance work. Creating the climate for change details UNEP's sustainable energy finance activities as part of an overall approach to strengthening the progression of finance needed to carry new ideas and technolo

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the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has set up a new department for health-related research. The unit aims at setting up a mechanism for coordination among government agencies to help

An environmental group called on two us banks to stop underwriting a

www.worldbankcampaigneurope.org There has been lot of pressure on the World Bank of late. A recent tribunal in New Delhi recently came down heavily on the institution. Now it is been challenged by

four senior officials quit the Asian Development Bank (adb) in July this year over the dilution of environmental and resettlement policy, triggering a crisis at the bank. All the officials were

on august 30, the Karnataka government passed a cabinet decision to invite global tenders for the Bangalore-Mysore Infrastructure Corridor Project. Following this, the war between the project's

Financial viability is perhaps the central theme of any business proposition. The terms financial management may be applied to any kind of undertaking or organization regardless of its aims or constitution. Therefore, proper financial management in Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporations (TNSTC) will help not only to provide greater return on investment but also to provide better services at reasonable prices to the society, to pay higher wages and salaries to their employees and to operate business efficiently. (Oct-Dec 2007)

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