There's radical change happening in the forest, paper & packaging (FPP) industry. We believe several key factors will shape the sector's direction over the next two decades, including technology, fibre competition, changing industry structures (and new players/partners) and regulation.

The paper shows that the assessment of groundwater over-exploitation based on simplistic considerations of aggregate abstraction and recharge provide highly misleading outcomes.
The gravity of the problems can be gauged from the extent of well failures, sharp decline in average area irrigated by wells, and increase in energy consumption for irrigation. The adverse

Through an inclusive approach taken by the local government, MGNREGA in Naxal affected Balaghat district of Madhya Pradesh has created wage employment and integrated the promotion of a gamut of other development interventions.

This paper,aimed at calculating the willingness to pay for hazard-free e-waste management system in Dhaka city, the capital of Bangladesh.

This study provides information on the current pedestrian infrastructure in selected cities that can be used to develop and propose pedestrian-focused solutions for Asian cities. It includes

This working paper: briefly reviews possible causes of the food price spike that began in mid-2010;  examines recent local food price movements in 58 developing countries during 2010;  discusses the adverse impacts of food price increases on households; presents a rapid desk review of international and domestic policy responses in 98 developing countries under a three-pillar policy fr

The objective of this report is to explore how river basins in the Himalayan region, and particularly shared water resources, can foster cooperation and security between Bangladesh, China, India and Nepal. The conventional view is that depleting water resources, growing problem of pollution, uncertain risks posed by climate change

An exploratory study on outsourcing of clinical trials by pharmaceutical companies to contract research organisations in nontraditional
trial regions.

This document is the Policy Research Working Paper by the World  Bank. Scaling-up adoption of renewable energy technology, such as solar home systems, to expand electricity access in developing countries can accelerate the transition to

In order to utilize the hazardous wastes generated in the cement industry the Central Pollution Control Board has come up with the draft guidelines dealing with the co-processing of distillery spent wash concentrate in the cement industry. Co-processing of wastes in cement kiln has emerged as an environment friendly alternative disposal method in the recent years.

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