The Economic Governance Index (EGI) is essentially a measure of enabling environment provided by the local bodies for private enterprise and households. It is a comparative measure of the government influenced conditions under which the private enterprise and civil bodies (which affect business environment) operate.

The main objectives of this report are: to illustrate that despite efforts to emphasize the importance of environmental health to poverty reduction and sustainable development in partner countries there has been limited success in countries placing environmental health issues that matter to the poor high on their development agendas; and to provide practical guidance on how to raise the profile o

This paper aims to summarize China

To enable Half Yearly Performance Review of the programmes of the Ministry of Environment & Forests, the Planning Commission, Government of India, on 13th June 2008 constituted an Expert Team to visit three wetlands viz.

The scope of this paper is to identify a strategy for climate change responses in agriculture that are consistent with safeguarding food security, rural livelihoods and the

The Department of Agriculture and Rural Development is a Department designated(a) for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972(b) in relation to the common
agricultural policy of the European Community. These Regulations may be cited as the Pesticides (Maximum Residue Levels in Crops,Food and Feeding Stuffs) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008.

With sharp economic growth, the international focus on

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This report details global progress towards the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target for drinking water and sanitation, and what these trends suggest for the remainder of the Water for Life Decade 2005-2015. In recognition of the large sanitation deficit, and the declaration of 2008 as the International Year of Sanitation, the report has a special focus on sanitation. It opens with a review of the current status of sanitation and an assessment of progress towards the sanitation target included in the MDGs.

India's rural activists for years have blamed the overuse and misuse of pesticides for a pervasive health crisis that afflicts villages like Jhajjal across the cotton belt of Punjab. Evidence continues to mount that the problems are severe.