India

 Super Market

Secretive. Exploitative. Is the market in Minor Forest Produce unmanageable? sopan joshi finds out

Publication Date: 
27/02/2003
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Forest Villages, Forest Products, Minor Forest Produce, Tendu, Mahua, Trade, Tribals, Forest Labourers, Medicinal Plants, Finance, India, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Bastar, Himachal Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa (Odisha)
India

 Study flouts basics in privatizing healthcare

CII study recommends greater private role in India's healthcare sector, but the document centres around the lucrative tertiary care market only

Publication Date: 
14/02/2003
Vibha Varshney
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Health Care, Primary Health Care, Health Policy, Diagnostic Methods, Drug Industry, Finance, Private Sector, India
Water Resources

 MP government to net in fisherfolk's body

the future of the Tawa Matsya Sangh (tms), Madhya Pradesh's highly acclaimed federation of fisherfolk cooperatives, is at stake. The Madhya Pradesh (mp) government is contemplating taking over the

Publication Date: 
14/02/2003
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Rivers, Tawa, Dams, Reservoirs, Displacement, Fisherfolk, Finance, Cooperatives, Madhya Pradesh, Hoshangabad (D), Corruption
Energy

 Up in smoke

National programme on improved chulhas put on ice

Publication Date: 
30/01/2003
Richard Mahapatra
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Air Pollution Control, Health Effects, Forest Conservation, Women, Energy, Chulhas (Cookstoves), Finance, Information, Public Participation, Governance, Government Of India (GOI), Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Sikkim, Statistics, Corruption
India

 Reviving Kottayam

The healthy city project is, if nothing else, a pointer to the direction that Indian cities need to move in

Publication Date: 
14/01/2003
Savitha V
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Environment, Finance, Public Participation, India, Kerala, Health Care
Environment

 Unhealthy ways

Poor countries can still not access cheap medicines

Publication Date: 
30/12/2002
Pranay Lal
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WTO, Finance, Patents, Developing Countries
India

 Talking grants

For the first time, the Group of 77 (g-77)

Publication Date: 
14/12/2002
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Finance, United Arab Emirates, Developing Countries
India

 Exchange programme

The World Bank has instituted a new fund that promises to relieve the poorest farmers and rural communities in developing countries of their financial worries. The Biocarbon Fund will invest in their

Publication Date: 
14/12/2002
Down to Earth
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Farmers, Finance, World Bank, Developing Countries
Poverty

 Food as carrot

In a world where corporate gains feed on hunger and poverty, could food be a human right?

Publication Date: 
14/11/2002
Ashfak Bhari
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Food Supply, Starvation, Food Aid, WTO, Finance, Poverty, Human Rights, India
India

 Spillage damages

In January 2001, the Jessica

Publication Date: 
30/10/2002
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Oil Pollution, Compensation, Finance, Ecuador

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