Sanitation

 Soap scheme doesn t wash

Local people of Kerala upset over being sermonised on hygiene

Publication Date: 
14/11/2002
Down to Earth
Tags:
Sanitation, WHO, World Bank, Kerala
Agriculture

 Questionable move

The World Bank (wb) has cleared the construction of a 1,045-kilometre oil pipeline from Chad in central Africa to Cameroon's Atlantic coast. The move flies in the face of environmental concerns

Publication Date: 
14/10/2002
Down to Earth
Tags:
Pollution, Environment Impact Assessment (EIA), Groundwater Recharge, World Bank, Africa, Cameroon
India

 Pollution costs dear

a recent World Bank (WB) study has

Publication Date: 
14/01/2002
Down to Earth
Tags:
Pollution, Pollution Control, Industrial Dispersal, Water Quality, Legislation, Governance, World Bank, India, Andhra Pradesh
India

 Last call

Will the song of the sarus be heard when the wetlands of Uttar Pradesh are drained?

Publication Date: 
30/07/2001
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Wetlands, Agriculture, Drainage, Birds, World Bank, Uttar Pradesh, Etawah (D)
Water Pollution

 MOUNTING PROBLEM

The deadlock in the construction of Syedabad water treatment plant in Dhaka, the capital

Publication Date: 
29/04/2001
Down to Earth
Tags:
Environment, Waste Treatment, World Bank, Bangladesh, Dhaka
Industry

 Shifting focus

the World Bank ( wb ) has decided to stop investing in common effluent treatment plants ( cetp s) in Gujarat. Instead, it will assist in adoption of cleaner production technologies that

Publication Date: 
14/12/2000
Down to Earth
Tags:
Pollution Control, Aid, Industry, World Bank, Gujarat, Common Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP)
India

 Tackling poverty

civil society in India associates the World Bank with economic growth infrastructure, and fiscal stabilisation. This book to some extent confirms this perception. It argues that economic growth

Publication Date: 
29/09/2000
N C Saxena
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Agriculture, Economic Development, Anti-Poverty Programmes, Public Participation, Governance, World Bank, India, Sustainable Development, Rural Poverty
Biodiversity

 Biodiversity fund

the World Bank along with Conser

Publication Date: 
29/09/2000
Down to Earth
Tags:
Biodiversity, Aid, World Bank, Developing Countries
Biodiversity

 Conservation grant

THE World Bank has sanctioned a $11.54-million biodiversity and natural resource management programme in Turkey. The Global Environment Facility is contributing a $8.2 million equivalent grant

Publication Date: 
14/07/2000
Down to Earth
Tags:
Biodiversity, Aid, World Bank, Turkey
Biodiversity

 Strangers in their own land

The final notification of the Great Himalayan National Park has jeopardised the livelihood of a tribe of migratory pastoralists. It has also cornered people of 130 villages in their own land on the name of biodiversity conservation

Publication Date: 
14/11/1999
Down to Earth
Tags:
Environment Politics, Pastoral Nomads, Tribals, Great Himalayan NP, Biodiversity, Legislation, Public Participation, World Bank, Himachal Pradesh

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