Biodiversity

 IT s got the look

Network City: Planning the Information Society in Bangalore

Publication Date: 
30/07/2004
Asha Ghosh
Down to Earth
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Planning, Private Sector, Information, Bangalore (D)
Biodiversity

 KERALA: 7 years on

A programme in crisis. RICHARD MAHAPATRA and E VIJAYALAKSHMI find out the many ways decentralised planning is faltering

Publication Date: 
30/03/2004
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Water Management, Rural Water Supply, Water Privatisation, Private Sector, Panchayats, World Bank, Asian Development Bank (ADB), Kerala, Kozhikode (D)
India

 4 flu mutants

Seven eminent virologists discuss the implications with Down To Earth

Publication Date: 
14/03/2004
Pranay Lal
Down to Earth
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Poultry, Vaccination, Epidemics, Infectious Diseases, Birds, Private Sector, Research, United States Of America (US), Diseases
Industry

 Another dismissal is possible

The World Social Forum WSF concluded in Mumbai. Then began the World Economic Forum in Davos. A little before these, a glitzy automobile fair in Delhi. One after the other, loud and strident

Publication Date: 
14/02/2004
Sunita Narain
Down to Earth
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Water Resources, Water Policy, Trade, Subsidies, Poverty, Anti-Poverty Programmes, Private Sector, Governance, India, Mumbai, Globalisation
Agriculture

 Roots of paucity

US policy limits agricultural yield of poor nations

Publication Date: 
14/02/2004
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Agriculture, Private Sector, Biotechnology, Patents, Developing Countries, Food Security
India

 Dhamaal Growth

NIDHI JAMWAL wonders what happened after Gurgaon got colonyfied

Publication Date: 
30/01/2004
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Noise Pollution, Water Resources, Groundwater, Drinking Water, Urbanisation, Urban Development, Solid Waste, Waste Disposal, Population, Planning, Industry, Private Sector, Legislation, History, India, Haryana, Statistics
India

 On privatising water

What about privatising water? Should India move to do it? What tips the scales in its favour, and what doesn t? In 2003, two editorials in Down To Earth tried to tackle such questions see:

Publication Date: 
14/01/2004
Down to Earth
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Water Resources, Water Policy, Water Harvesting, Drinking Water, Rural Water Supply, Urban Water Supply, Canal Irrigation, Economic Development, Subsidies, Private Sector, Human Rights, Panchayats, South Africa, India
India

 PIPRA: An attempt to hoodwink the Third World

The ongoing attempts to strengthen intellectual property protection regimes through the Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights TRIPS agreement, are choking knowledge transfers from the industrialised world to developing countries. And with private c

Publication Date: 
30/12/2003
Devinder Sharma
Down to Earth
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Private Sector, Biotechnology, Patents, Intellectual Property Rights (IPR), United States Of America (US), India, Developing Countries
Habitat And Urbanisation

Private participation in infrastructure in developing countries: trends, impacts, and policy lessons

Over the last decade, governments around the world pursued policies to involve the private sector in the delivery and financing of infrastructure services. The scale of this move away from the hitherto dominant public sector model was far more rapid than had been anticipated at the start of the 1990s.

Publication Date: 
01/10/2003
Clive Harris
The World Bank
Tags:
Urban Water Supply, Private Sector, Public Participation, India, Global, Developing Countries, Infrastructure Development
India

 Seed congress surreptitiously endorses transgenic varieties

did the World Seed Congress 2003 held under a cloak of secrecy in Bangalore from June 7 to 11 have a hidden agenda? It transpires that the conference digressed from the stated objective of pump priming the Indian seed industry and, instead, ended up s

Publication Date: 
14/07/2003
Ramya Viswanath, N Venugopal Rao
Down to Earth
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Agricultural Research, Seeds, Private Sector, Genetic Engineering, Research, India, Andhra Pradesh

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