Poverty

Poverty declining, hunger rising: UN report

Bs Reporter / New Delhi September 11, 2008, 0:53 IST

The UNDP

Publication Date: 
11/09/2008
Business Standard (New Delhi)
Tags:
Malnutrition, Starvation, Poverty, UNDP, South Asia
Economy

A free trade area within ASEAN

P. S. Suryanarayana

India

Publication Date: 
06/09/2008
Hindu (New Delhi)
Tags:
Trade, Economic Relations, South Asia
Water Resources

Water first: issues and challenges for nations and communities in South Asia

This book brings together current knowledge and cutting edge interdisciplinary perspectives from renowned scholars on the histories, politics, ecologies and cultures of water in South Asia. It explores the complexities of the issues and challenges thrown up by contemporary water management practices in the South Asian region.

Publication Date: 
Sep 2008
Kuntala Lahiri-dutt, Robert J. Wasson
Sage Publications
Tags:
Narmada Valley, Water Resources, Rivers, Damodar, Ganga, Water Management, Water Quality, Arsenic, Watershed Development, Monsoons, International Disputes, Hydrology, India, Varanasi (D), South Asia, River Linking
Climate Change

Climate adaptation in Asia: knowledge gaps and research issues in South Asia

This report presents South Asia-wide review of climate change adaptation research, intended to identify present knowledge, gaps on adaptation and application including the practice of research. This scoping study makes a distinction between planned and autonomous adaptation strategies including ways in which social and physical infrastructure enable adaptation.

Publication Date: 
01/09/2008
Institute for Social and Environmental Transition
Tags:
Himalaya, Climate Change, Climate Science, Climate Impacts, Climate Adaptation, Research, Asia, South Asia, River Basin
Wildlife

Trading nature

This report looks at the importance of effective management of trade in wild species in order to maximize its potential to deliver on the MDGs. It also presents the findings of three case studies: the wild meat trade in East and Southern Africa; the skin and wool trade in Latin America; and, the highvalue

Publication Date: 
01/09/2008
Dilys Roe
TRAFFIC International
Tags:
Fisheries, Wildlife, Wildlife Management, Wildlife Trade, Africa, South America, Sustainable Development, South Asia
Economy

Doing business 2009: South Asia

Doing Business 2009 is the sixth in a series of annual reports investigating regulations that enhance business activity and those that constrain it. Doing Business presents quantitative indicators on business regulations and the protection of property rights that can be compared across 181 economies, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, over time.

Publication Date: 
01/09/2008
The World Bank
Tags:
Trade, Economy, Workers, Finance, Industry, South Asia
Climate Change

Six areas identified in facing climate change

The country is preparing to face the aftermath of climate change in around 50 different sub-sectors under six thematic areas of agriculture, health, livelihoods, disasters management, environment and development.

Bangladesh will present its national action plans at a conference in London in September, according to a presentation at the international symposium on "Climate Change and Food Security in South Asia".

Publication Date: 
27/08/2008
Daily Star (Bangladesh)
Tags:
Climate Change, Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), Bangladesh, Dhaka, South Asia, Food Security
Climate Change

Bangladesh may face severe climate consequences

A six-day international symposium on 'Climate Change and Food Security in South Asia' will begin in the city tomorrow.

Dhaka University and Ohio State University of the USA, in collaboration with the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), the Food and Agriculture Organisation (Fao) and the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and Pacific (Escap) will jointly organise the symposium.

Some 70 foreign and 200 local experts mainly from Dhaka University and Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute (BARI) will take part in the symposium.

Publication Date: 
24/08/2008
Daily Star (Bangladesh)
Tags:
Climate Change, World Meteorological Orgnisation ('WMO), Bangladesh, Dhaka, South Asia, Food Security
Energy

WB for cooperation in energy among Saarc countries

In the backdrop of sluggish progress in cooperation among South Asian nations, the World Bank (WB) is now persuading for specific projects to strengthen regional collaboration in energy, transport, food security and other sectors.

The WB has already started a technical study on different projects and their feasibility to ascertain how those can benefit the region through these sectors.

Publication Date: 
22/08/2008
Daily Star (Bangladesh)
Tags:
Transport, Energy, SAARC, World Bank, Bangladesh, South Asia, Food Security
Water Resources

Water to the people: drinking water and water for livelihoods

Access to water and control over it is not only a matter of survival but an issue of democratic participation of all citizens in the management of their country's natural resources, particularly as conflicts over water increase.

Publication Date: 
Aug 2008
Uwe Hoering
EED
Tags:
Common Property Resources, Coca Cola, Rivers, Palar, Groundwater, Water Policy, Drinking Water, Water Privatisation, India, Tamil Nadu, Chennai (D), South Asia, Water Resources

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