Even now, over 30 years after he scored that incredible ‘goal of the century’ against the English team in the World Cup, and despite his later descent into drugs and addictions, Maradona remains an ic...
by Shibaji Bose | On 29 Dec 2020 The essays collected here grapple with different aspects of what, if natural scientists are to be believed, is the most profound set of issues humanity has ever faced. The United Nations Framework Con...
by World Economics Association | On 29 Mar 2019 In September 2015, the world committed to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which have broad and interconnected social, economic, social, econo...
by Jose Ramon Albert | On 20 Mar 2019 Systematically, a way of life has been undermined and destroyed to make way for a frantic frenzy of construction: Two international airports, superfast highways, over-passes, underpasses, a second tra...
by Nazar da Silva | On 14 Feb 2019 In 2017, global investment in renewables and energy efficiency declined by 3% and there is a risk that it will slow further; clearly fossil fuels still dominate energy investment. This could threaten...
by Jeffrey D. Sachs | On 28 Jan 2019 This paper analyzes the evolution of the labor share of income in Asia, a region where countries have experienced steep declines and increases as well as stable labor income shares in the quarter-cent...
by Mitali Das | On 13 Dec 2018 This paper extends this literature by considering a heterogeneous labor market with capital-skill complementarity. Technological advancement, global integration, regulation of labor market and structu...
by Saumik Paul | On 21 Nov 2018 The aim of the paper is to contribute to the discussion on the role of multilateral financing in directly addressing gender-based violence; specifically, the ways in which infrastructure investments c...
by Tsolmon Begzsuren | On 29 Oct 2018 This working paper summarizes the findings from three of the countries chosen by the study—Mongolia, Myanmar, and Timor-Leste—to represent the range of challenges countries face and need to contend wi...
by Sri Wening Handayani | On 27 Sep 2018 The reduction of poverty is at the heart of the development agenda both nationally and globally. This is reflected in the Philippine Development Plan, and the worldwide commitment toward the Sustainab...
by Jose Ramon G. Albert | On 27 Aug 2018 This paper mines relevant past work to generate guidance for monitoring the proposed SDG target related to transboundary water cooperation. Potential measures of water cooperation were identified, fil...
by Davison Saruchera | On 27 Jun 2018 Financial inclusion has significantly advanced in Armenia during the last decade. Rural and urban areas, however, have benefited unevenly. The high cost of providing financial services, the lack of ph...
by Armen Nurbekyan | On 07 Jun 2018 This paper uses the Kutzin framework as described in the WHO Bulletin in 2013.20. This version has the advantage of incorporating both health system functions and goals, and will help us in understand...
by Eduardo Banzon | On 05 Jun 2018 Digital technologies are increasingly underpinning almost all aspects of daily life, including health care. But there is not yet sufficient awareness of the issues to be considered when investing in d...
by Peter Drury | On 29 May 2018 This briefing provides an overview of the key factors that have influenced the European Commission’s carding decisions to date.
by Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) | On 06 Apr 2018 Universal health coverage, with full access to high-quality services for health promotion,
prevention, treatment, rehabilitation, palliation and financial risk protection, cannot be
achieved without...
by World Health Organisation (WHO) | On 06 Apr 2018 There is increasing evidence of drying springs, decreasing spring discharge, and deteriorating spring water quality in many parts of the HKH.
by International Centre Mountain Development | On 04 Apr 2018 With a population nearing 60 million, half of which occupies the two major cities of Karachi and Hyderabad, Sindh is the only province with a rural population in the minority. Research conducted by PI...
by Salman Rashid | On 21 Mar 2018 The PILER 2015 Report on the Status of Labour Rights, fifth in the series, based on secondary research, aims to present an overview of the status of labour and the issues in the year impacting labour...
by Pakistan Institute of Labour Education & Research (PILER) | On 21 Mar 2018 The problems caused by climate change have been recognised as one of the greatest concern of this century. The subject is futuristic, relevant and multi-disciplinary with many stakeholders. The matter...
by | On 16 Feb 2018 The paper finds that the share of education in the State’s budget has reached an all-time low precisely when the State Domestic Product has been recording all-time high growth rates.
by K.K. George | On 16 Feb 2018 India continues to undertake and effectively implement a large number of actions relating to
energy, environment and climate, in particular, covering renewable energy, energy efficiency,
sustainable...
by Arun Jaitley | On 01 Feb 2018 Introduction: India bears a disproportionate burden of open defecation in spite of investing
more and more funds and ushering in several institutional efforts including Swachh Bharat
Mission in the...
by Arijita Dutta | On 23 Jan 2018 Education is a human right, recognized and affirmed as such by the global community nearly
seventy years ago in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and in many subsequent
declarations, convent...
by Government of India & Employment | On 22 Jan 2018 This paper critically reviews the strengths and weaknesses of various objective and subjective indicators of corruption.
by Alexander Hamilton | On 15 Jan 2018 This study has shown that while most shrimp farmers are aware of the risks in business, they are not actively adopting the standards.
by A. Enamul Haque | On 29 Dec 2017 The period 2005–2015 has been designated by the United Nations as the International Decade for Action on “Water for Life” and was launched on
World Water Day, 22 March 2005. The decade is designed to...
by | On 15 Dec 2017 In water-based transport generally, fuel costs are low and environmental
pollution is lower than in transport by road, rail, or air. The
waterway is naturally available, which has to be ‘trained’, m...
by | On 13 Dec 2017 Established in 2000; the Millennium Development Goals had played a
major role in bringing back the developmental issues to focus. Nearing the end of the stipulated time when they had to be achieved a...
by | On 24 Nov 2017 Against the backdrop of a dwindling marine fisheries resource base, declining catch rates, and escalating conflicts about securing rights over oceanic resources, this paper emphasises the need to relo...
by | On 15 Nov 2017 In academic and policy discourse, urbanisation and cities are currently receiving a great deal of attention, and rightly so. Both have been central to the enormous transformation the world has been go...
by | On 01 Nov 2017 In September 2015, heads of States and representatives of 193 countries assembled at the United Nations General Assembly to give shape to the Post- 2015 Development Agenda: ‘Transforming Our World: Th...
by | On 25 Oct 2017 The enactment of RTE Act, 2009 imposes a duty on the Indian states to fulfill every child?s right to elementary education. Education is also a stand-alone goal among SDGs, which India is one of the si...
by | On 24 Oct 2017 Shifting cultivation remains the main source of employment for large sections of the rural people who depend on agriculture for their livelihood in the hill areas of Manipur. Its inputs continue to be...
by Marchang Reimeingam | On 12 Sep 2017 The seventh goal of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is dedicated to ensuring access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all by 2030. While energy was implicit in the Mi...
by Hannah Goozee | On 28 Jul 2017 Shifting cultivation is one of the main causes of deforestation and forest degradation in Sri Lanka. This study uses household data and satellite images to investigate the determinants of shifting cul...
by Prabath Nishantha Edirisinghe | On 28 Jul 2017 This study explores three major points, namely, Singapore's development process,Singapore's model of economic development, and the economic challenges of post-war Sri Lanka. This study explores pages...
by Sanika Sulochani Ramanayake | On 25 Jul 2017 With mushrooming of commercial drivers, incomes are falling and expenses are rising. Unable to pay monthly loan instalments, cars are being seized, while contracted employees cannot quit. Will legal p...
by Amrit B L S | On 29 Jun 2017 Rural roads and rural transport services are fundamental to reducing rural poverty and enabling social and economic development. Evidence from Myanmar, and from around the world, makes it clear that a...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 01 Jun 2017 Who is the public health system actually catering to, if not these vulnerable women and children of the riverine islanders who actually are in dire need of these services? Do they not come under the M...
by | On 10 Apr 2017 With growing water scarcity across many parts of the world, competition over access to this vital resource has been known to spark conflict. Following the September 2016 Uri attack in India, the gover...
by | On 14 Feb 2017 India, with over 300 million people under the age of 15, is home to the 4 largest population of children in the world. This makes Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (RMNCH) one of the to...
by | On 02 Feb 2017 Developing countries are the most vulnerable to climate change impacts because they have fewer resources to adapt: socially, technologically and financially. Climate change is anticipated to have far...
by United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific | On 23 Jan 2017 Shortage of electricity prompted the countries to give a momentum to renewable energy resources. Renewable energy refers to energy resources that Aries naturally and repeatedly in the environment and...
by | On 04 Jan 2017 This discussion paper examines the current state of sanitation services in India in relation to two goals—Goal 7 of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which calls on countries to halve, by 2015,...
by Asian Bank | On 27 Dec 2016 This WWF Living Planet Report comes at a critical juncture following the remarkable successes in 2015 of the Paris Agreement on climate change and the agreement on the Sustainable Development Goals fo...
by World Wide Fund | On 23 Dec 2016 Pulses in India have recently become a topic of concern among policymakers. Members of the Opposition, for instance, have pointed to the 'exceptionally high' cost of certain pulses as an indication of...
by | On 15 Dec 2016 One of the main outcomes of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) was the agreement by Member States to launch a process to develop a set of Sustainable Development Goals (...
by | On 08 Nov 2016 This inaugural report on the global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is a first accounting of where the world stands at the start of our collective journey to 2030. The report analyses selected in...
by | On 03 Nov 2016 Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa form the bloc of emerging
economies, but is it still relevant? For several years now, the most talked-about trend in the global economy has been the rise...
by Al Jazeera . | On 25 Oct 2016 Women and girl children spend considerable time to collect water for meeting the domestic needs of the households in rural areas of many developing countries. Thus, scarcity of water can have dispropo...
by | On 25 Oct 2016 The Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) on zero hunger is a top priority on the international agenda, and eliminating hunger globally is naturally and inevitably tied to farming. Therefore, the SDGs ha...
by | On 19 Oct 2016 Rivers are life line of the human being. Indian rivers are worshiped as a mother, because she cares the humanity and makes the ways easy for the people and living organism. Without the water no one ca...
by | On 20 Sep 2016 Financing problems, new global goals, and provision of good quality care are some of the key
challenges facing the next era of improving maternal health.
by The Lancet Maternal Health Series | On 20 Sep 2016 South Asia has been characterized by its minimal progress in the areas of child and maternal health and nutrition in comparison to other regions in the world. The case of India is especially enigmatic...
by | On 09 Sep 2016 The paper examines the issues around mobilization of resources for the 11 countries of the South-East Asia Region of the World Health Organization (WHO), by analysing their macroeconomic situation, he...
by | On 07 Sep 2016 This paper explores the normative and empirical consequences of the MDG hunger target (1C), to halve the proportion of people who are undernourished, measured by the proportion of children under 5 who...
by | On 06 Sep 2016 Global indicators are important for understanding progress towards each of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). However, they can mask sub-national and thematic variations. They cannot explain ho...
by | On 02 Sep 2016 This report reviews the main trends in global poverty, assesses projections on poverty trends for the medium term, and considers the implications for antipoverty policy. Three main points emerge from...
by Armando Barrientos | On 10 Aug 2016 Reports of raids in factories and workshops and rescue of children from different cities of the country appear with unfailing regularity. Children from disparate geographical regions: West Bengal, Bih...
by Enakshi Ganguly Thukral | On 20 Jul 2016 The MDG on hunger requires that the proportion of people suffering from hunger be halved between 1990 and 2015. Behind this apparently simple statement lies much complexity: the food intake required t...
by | On 19 Jul 2016 This Evidence Report details key insights from the Institute of Development Studies Addressing and Mitigating Violence programme, which involved detailed political analysis of dynamics of violence as...
by | On 15 Jul 2016 The enforcement of The Forest Conservation Act, 1980 enabled the regulation of widespread diversions of forestland for non-forest uses, and hence put a check on deforestation. The changing priorities...
by | On 12 Jul 2016 India’s water crisis is often perceived to have been perpetuated by the widening gap between the utilizable water resources and the aggregate demand for water in agriculture and other sectors in certa...
by | On 04 Jul 2016 The paper attempts to answer the question namely the management-principal or the principal-principal is given more significance by the debt holders in the Indian context. It also examines the relation...
by Sakina Kachwala | On 29 Jun 2016 Current paper aims to understand how the governments in different
parts of the world have leveraged upon the private sector to achieve specific
educational goals. The idea here is not to recommend o...
by Centre for Civil Society CCS | On 29 Jun 2016 This study proposes a framework for product innovation to identify what strategies determine the drivers and outcomes of product innovation. Specifically, this meta-analytic study identifies key antec...
by Dheeraj Sharma | On 23 Jun 2016 Agriculture is central to food security and economic growth in developing countries and provides the main source of livelihood for three out of four of the world’s poor. But food production requires s...
by United Nations Conference on Trade and Development UNCTAD | On 20 Jun 2016 The sustainable management and restoration of our landscapes – achieving land degradation neutrality - will deliver many co-benefits. From biodiversity conservation and combating climate change to ens...
by | On 17 Jun 2016 This paper provides a new presentation of the urban water problem and offers a set of solutions
that are sustainable, both in ecological and financial terms, and seek to tackle the deep inequities in...
by Mihir Shah | On 16 Jun 2016 Emerging powers are re-shaping the norms and practices of international development. As the Indian economy continues to grow and the country bids for a seat at the great power table, the ambitions of...
by Tanoubi Ngangom | On 26 May 2016 It is important to understand the fiscal capacity that underlies any potential mechanism to implement the social agenda of the SDGs, particularly if the international community wants to hold governmen...
by Victor Kwadwo | On 25 May 2016 Despite their universal and holistic ambition, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and their targets are shaping up to be too compartmentalised to deliver the integrated approach required. In thi...
by | On 25 May 2016 Domestic food supply in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) will need to triple in the next 35 years. But SSA countries have also committed to reducing or halting deforestation. The tripling of food supply canno...
by Xiaoting Jones | On 25 May 2016 Congress should have long goals, energy, media strategy, good governance to come back to power.
by T.N. Ninan | On 21 May 2016 The coastal freeway is a 34-km road planned along the entire Western Coastline of Mumbai. This presentation attempts to understand Social and Environmental Impacts of the proposed road on the city of...
by | On 20 May 2016 This paper evaluates housing policy in the Republic of Korea over the past several decades, describes new challenges arising from the changing environment, and draws lessons for other countries. The m...
by Kyung-Hwan Kim | On 18 May 2016 Climate change combat is often in the hands of policy-makers, researchers and
governments. However it is the marginalised and indigenous communities that feel
the full force of climate change effect...
by Serina Rahman | On 03 May 2016 As the international community transitions from the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the challenges ahead of Member States is to build on the
substanti...
by Food and Agricultural Organization [FAO] | On 12 Apr 2016 This paper characterises and distinguishes co-operatives from other forms of organisations and highlights the important place they occupy in India‘s rural economy. It examines their contribution to ru...
by Katar Singh | On 20 Mar 2016 Improving the quality of skills among its labor force will help further economic growth in Bangladesh. Thus, there is an urgent need to provide better access to TVET to help increase productivity and...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 15 Mar 2016 The “shale gas revolution” in the US could provide significant leverage in the US “pivot” to Asia. As China looks to absorb the technological know-how of shale gas extraction from North America, great...
by | On 12 Mar 2016 Biofuels are acquiring importance due to their potential to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions. The two most important biofuels – viz., bioethanol and bio-diesel, are largely considered supplementary t...
by K.S. Kavi Kumar | On 11 Mar 2016 Established in 2000; the Millennium Development Goals had played a major role in bringing back the developmental issues to focus. Nearing the end of the stipulated time when they had to be achieved an...
by Zareena Begum Irfan | On 10 Mar 2016 The present research work aims to analyse the effect that the disaggregated developmental aid has had on the health status and the standard of living in the urban sector after the MDGs were establishe...
by Zareena Begum Irfan | On 10 Mar 2016 Infant and child mortality rates in India have fallen by almost half from the time of adoption of millennium development goals to 2012 but there has not been a concurrent decrease in morbidity and und...
by Sowmya Dhanaraj | On 10 Mar 2016 In a new survey we ask respondents, after a standard Subjective Well-Being (SWB) question, if they can think of changes in their lives that would improve their SWB score. If the SWB score is just one...
by Marc Fleurbaey | On 09 Mar 2016 The debate on common property resource centres on issues of a particular strategy for managing it in order to cater to the growing demand for communities that depend on it and the economy at large tha...
by Jharna Pathak | On 09 Mar 2016 As with previous annual meetings of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), outcomes of the recently concluded 16th Conference of the Parties (COP16) have implications for...
by J. Ewing | On 03 Mar 2016 After three decades of double-digit growth, China is slowing as it is rebalancing its economy from export-driven to less-volatile domestic consumption driven economy. The paper looks at the impact of...
by Geetima Das Krishna | On 02 Mar 2016 The Government of India has publicly committed to a doubling or trebling of government health spending by 2012 and launched a major program, the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), to help spend the...
by Peter Berman | On 01 Mar 2016 Under the World Trade Organization, the Philippines has maintained special treatment for rice, which expires on July 2017. Tariffication will involve greater competition from imports and the decline o...
by Roehlano M. Briones | On 25 Feb 2016 While the Philippines has had a new economic growth trajectory in recent years, the country has had little progress in reducing poverty and in making growth more inclusive. In this paper, the authors...
by Jose Ramon G. Albert | On 24 Feb 2016 This paper aims to analyze how contracts are determined and modified given diverse agricultural settings and to examine the implications of these changes with respect to their efficiency, distribution...
by Leonardo Lanzona | On 24 Feb 2016 The trade performance of countries in South Asia over the past two decades has been poor relative to other regions. Exports from South Asia have doubled over the past 20 years to approximately USD 100...
by John Wilson | On 21 Feb 2016 This lecture addresses the need to reduce the impact of city development of flooding on residents and in other places, and the worsening of the water quality in streams, rivers and lakes caused by the...
by | On 19 Feb 2016 The Government has to not only focus on the Indian Economic scenario but also at the World Economic scenario. The Budget will have to focus on both the long term and short term development plans and h...
by Kiron Nanda | On 18 Feb 2016 This workshop was conducted as part of the mitigation strategies in rice production project, implemented with support from the agriculture initiative of the Climate and Clean Air Coalition. The projec...
by B. Sander | On 18 Feb 2016 Agriculture is an important source of greenhouse gas emissions globally, but how do emissions differ among countries? The relative contribution of agriculture to countries’ emissions budgets can infor...
by Meryl Richards | On 17 Feb 2016 The cultivation of opium poppy in Afghanistan is nothing new. Although the drug economy diversified and became more vertically integrated after the fall of the Taliban, it had already emerged and deep...
by Vanda Felbab-Brown | On 14 Feb 2016 Universal primary education is one of the eight pledges of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) that are set to be met by 2015. Since the goals have been adopted, corruption and governance deficits...
by Transparency International TI | On 12 Feb 2016 With 37% of fish harvest exported as food for human consumption or in non-edible forms, trade policies and measures constitute an essential part of the overall policy framework needed to support susta...
by | On 08 Feb 2016 The World Bank was founded to correct failures in international capital markets. That role has shifted over the past 70 years. Modern analyses should proceed from the premise that the Bank’s central g...
by Michael Clemens | On 03 Feb 2016 In September this year, world leaders will meet in New York at the United Nations General Assembly. Top of the agenda will be the passage of a resolution laying out global development goals for the fi...
by Charles Kenny | On 03 Feb 2016 Governments in Asia must prioritise technologies that improve fishery productivity to meet the growing local and international demand for fish. This increased productivity must be sustainable, however...
by The WorldFish Center TWC | On 01 Feb 2016 Against the backdrop of UN 2030 Sustainable Development agenda, this paper analyses the measurement issues in gender-based indices constructed by UNDP and suggests alternatives for choice of variables...
by | On 01 Feb 2016 Seventy-six years ago, in the midst of the Great Depression, the United States government introduced the New Deal. The New Deal effectively harnessed the fiscal stimulus for environmental as well as d...
by United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs | On 31 Jan 2016 The rapidly unfolding global financial and economic crisis will severely disrupt economic growth worldwide, affect the livelihoods of billions around the world and endanger progress toward the poverty...
by United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs | On 31 Jan 2016 There is a broad consensus that without the active participation of developing countries, global temperatures cannot be stabilized at a safe level. It is also agreed that even if temperatures are cont...
by United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs | On 31 Jan 2016 Difficulties in raising sufficient resources to finance internationally agreed development goals and global objectives, such as combating climate change, have led the quest for new and innovative sour...
by United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs | On 31 Jan 2016 Official development assistance declined in real terms in 2011 as a result, in part, of fiscal austerity in many donor countries. Traditional forms of funding have fallen well short of needs to financ...
by United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs | On 31 Jan 2016 Accelerating progress to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) will serve to advance human development and also to lay a solid foundation for the pursuance of sustainable development goals a...
by United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs | On 31 Jan 2016 An overview is provided of the state of knowledge on internal migration in developing economies, with particular emphasis on recent contributions to the literature. The overview is divided into five s...
by | On 28 Jan 2016 Conventionally, shifting cultivation (also known as Swidden) has been interpreted as inefficient (economically), destructive (ecologically) and an inflexible static form (institutionally) of agricultu...
by Amalendu Jyotishi | On 28 Jan 2016 The central focus of this paper is to underscore emerging patterns and issues in the availability of and access to physical infrastructure in major Indian states during the two decades since the 1980s...
by Keshab Das | On 28 Jan 2016 Recent attention to Millennium Development Goals by the international development community has led to the formation of targets to measure country-level achievements, including achievements on health...
by Abdo Yazbeck | On 28 Jan 2016 Rice, a major staple crop for India and Bangladesh is important not only for ensuring food security, but also the livelihood security of large number of small and marginal farmers engaged in rice cult...
by Neha Jain | On 23 Jan 2016 The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will define the priorities of the UN’s development agendabeyond 2015. But the reality of climate change impacts will render these aspirational goals almost imp...
by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change IPCC | On 23 Jan 2016 While there is now broad agreement that National Development Banks (NDBs) have the potential to contribute positively to development objectives, it is less clear how this can best be done in practice....
by Institute of Development Studies IDS | On 23 Jan 2016 Rising powers such as Brazil, India and China have been criticised for being obstructive in the negotiations on the post-2015 development agenda. The start of the United Nations (UN) negotiations saw...
by Institute of Development Studies IDS | On 23 Jan 2016 In spite of the advances in cotton production, it has to propagate the cause at the national & international level by joining the forces and harmonizing of the interest of the producers, users & other...
by Department of Agriculture & Cooperation GOI | On 22 Jan 2016 The paper argues that there is great disparity of incomes between developed and developing countries. Relative income gap of the developing countries which was 10.8 per cent in 2000 was 15.1 per cent...
by | On 21 Jan 2016 This working paper seeks to explore the potential impact of future demographic and climate change on migration patterns in developing countries, in order to identify policy implications for internatio...
by | On 20 Jan 2016 The Paris Agreement on climate change has united the world in the pursuit of an ambitious climate goal. However, goals alone will not avert catastrophic climate change. Credible commitments to aggress...
by Noah Deich | On 19 Jan 2016 This report investigates student awareness, interests and aspirations around general and vocational education. Using a survey administered to class 12 students in one district each in Rajasthan, Chatt...
by Megha Aggarwal | On 19 Jan 2016 Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) set the agenda for the attainment of universal literacy by 2015 primarily to be delivered by the state sector. This agenda tends to ignore the significant private s...
by | On 15 Jan 2016 The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were introduced to monitor implementation of the United Nations Millennium Declaration which set out a vision for inclusive and sustainable globalization based...
by Sakiko Fukuda-Parr | On 13 Jan 2016 The vision of Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana (PMKSY)
will be to ensure access to some means of protective irrigation to all agricultural farms in the country, to produce ‘per drop more crop’,...
by Ministry of Agriculture GOI | On 11 Jan 2016 The paper emphasises the fact that the fastest growth in India’s urban population is occurring in its smaller cities and towns. They have glaringly inadequate sewerage and public sanitation infrastruc...
by Shubhagato Dasgupta | On 09 Jan 2016 Review of Eat Dust: Mining and Greed in Goa by Hartman de Souza;
Harper Collins India;
2015, pp 288, Rs 350. Eat Dust: Mining and Greed in Goa
By Hartman de Souza;
Harper Collins India;
2015, p...
by Augusto Pinto | On 02 Jan 2016 This document clearly informs about the possible strategies that can be applied for the implementation of the NRLM. The publication not only incorporates outputs of the discussions on NRLM design but...
by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) | On 01 Jan 2016 During 2012-2013, the UN Women Independent Evaluation Office undertook a corporate thematic evaluation of the UN Women contribution to preventing violence against women (VAW) and expanding access to r...
by UN Women | On 28 Dec 2015 This paper examines the domestic sources of the internationalization of national oil companies (NOCs) in China and India. It argues that – counter to notions of state-led internationalization – the go...
by Jonas Mecklinga | On 23 Dec 2015 Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will require high levels of productive private and public sector investment, which in turn requires a suitable investment climate. This paper provide...
by | On 22 Dec 2015 The strengthening of El Niño weather phenomenon has led to lower than average rainfall for India’s monsoon season, thereby raising concerns for paddy crops production.
by Aritra Chakrabarty | On 21 Dec 2015 This brief describes key findings from a rigorous seven-year evaluation of the first of these livelihood programmes, BRAC’s ‘Targeting the Ultra-Poor’ programme in rural Bangladesh. Targeted household...
by Clare Balboni | On 18 Dec 2015 This report presents global, regional and country-level estimates of trends in maternal mortality between 1990 and 2015. It describes in detail the methodology employed to generate the estimates and t...
by United Nations | On 17 Dec 2015 This research paper is divided into two parts to provide a more complete view of how both countries think in term of their ambitions and the methods they deem important to achieve them. This paper arg...
by | On 17 Dec 2015 This report makes the case for closing persistent gaps in equity, because the cycle of inequity is neither inevitable nor insurmountable, and the cost of inaction is too high. UNICEF’s commitment to e...
by United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF | On 17 Dec 2015 Today’s children, and their children, are the ones who will live with the consequences of climate change. This report looks at how children, and particularly the most vulnerable, are affected and what...
by United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF | On 17 Dec 2015 For decades, the creative process in Goa has been stymied by the lack of a market, of production facilities, of free speech (for a significant part of the 20th century), and even a shortage of role mo...
by | On 15 Dec 2015 This report is a global partnership initiative aimed at ending preventable child and maternal deaths. It also provides current information on causes of child and maternal deaths, and coverage of key i...
by United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF | On 11 Dec 2015 The objective of this discussion paper was to provide background for discussions of the UNESCO-IHP Side-Event on "Water in the Post-2015 Development Agenda and Sustainable Development Goals" during th...
by | On 08 Dec 2015 The “Progress of the World's Women 2008/2009: Who Answers to Women?” demonstrates that one of the most powerful constraints on realizing women's rights and achieving the Millennium Development Goals (...
by | On 07 Dec 2015 The immense social, economic and environmental consequences of climate change and loss of essential ecosystems are becoming clear. Their effects are already being felt in floods, droughts, and devasta...
by | On 07 Dec 2015 This paper considers the challenge of establishing a robust follow-up and review mechanism to support such implementation. The paper underscores the importance of the follow-up and review process taki...
by | On 04 Dec 2015 If the global commitment to eradicate inequality for all people is truly unequivocal, as leaders claim it to be, the implementation of these Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) needs to take into acc...
by | On 03 Dec 2015 This paper explores the relationship between determinants of migration which are often deeply embedded in the economic, social, political, cultural and environmental context, and more immediate factor...
by | On 06 Nov 2015 On 2 August 2015, the outcome document of the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit 2015 was agreed by consensus by Member States. The outcome document will be presented to the Summit for adop...
by UN Women | On 30 Oct 2015 The report reveals new evidence of human trafficking and the use of violence in the Thai fishing industry and inaction on the part of the Government to identify and prosecute criminals, corrupt offici...
by Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) | On 16 Oct 2015 This report looks in depth at the factors within each country that will support or impede implementation. A set of Dialogues has been exploring these factors and are still capturing ideas around these...
by | On 15 Oct 2015 The General Assembly of the United Nations adopted in 2000 a set of “Millennium Development Goals” the first of which is to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger, more specifically to “reduce by half,...
by Angus Deaton | On 13 Oct 2015 The 2015-16 Global Monitoring Report, produced jointly by the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, details the progress the world has made towards global development goals and examines the impa...
by International Monetary Fund [IMF] | On 09 Oct 2015 BRAC WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene) programme aims to facilitate, in partnership with the government of Bangladesh and other stakeholders, the attainment of the targets of UN Millennium Developm...
by Nepal C Dey | On 09 Oct 2015 This year’s annual State of Food Insecurity in the World report takes stock of progress made towards achieving the internationally established hunger targets and reflects on what needs to be done, as...
by Food and Agriculture Organization | On 07 Oct 2015 This paper discusses the findings from one of the first rigorous quasi-experimental studies using a ‘before-after-control intervention’ design that encompass all major aspects of REDD+: forest carbon...
by Bishnu Prasad Sharma | On 25 Sep 2015 This paper was originally commissioned by the Education for All (EFA) Global Monitoring Report as background information to assist in drafting the 2015 report. This report aims to provide an additiona...
by Ulrike Hanemann | On 22 Sep 2015 This Report draws on all of this experience, to make sharp recommendations for the place of education in the future global sustainable development agenda. The lessons are clear. New education targets...
by United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultura [UNESCO] | On 22 Sep 2015 Traditional assessments of progress against poverty put no explicit weight on increasing the standard of living of the poorest—raising the consumption floor. Yet this is often emphasized by policy mak...
by Martin Ravallion | On 14 Sep 2015 After generations of wanderlust, that often snapped ties with their roots, Goans from far and near are returning with renewed interest to trace their origins. And they may be the lucky ones. Goa with...
by Frederick Noronha | On 09 Sep 2015 This report highlights the global nature of malnutrition and the successes and bottlenecks in addressing it. Malnutrition continues to affect the lives of millions of children and women worldwide. Eve...
by International Food Policy Research Institute | On 08 Sep 2015 The report calls for overfishing, pirate fishing and modern-day slavery in the Thai fishing industry to be addressed as interconnected issues. It examines the complex and multi-faceted problems in Tha...
by Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) | On 08 Sep 2015 This report focuses on three main issues – gender equality, maternal health and slums – which provide clear examples of how the MDGs and the targets set fall short of international human rights standa...
by Amnesty International AI, | On 31 Aug 2015 Young entrepreneurs are taking the baton of sustainable development from community-level solutions to globally replicable innovations. UN Habitat’s biennial Youth Innovation and Entrepreneurship Award...
by Puja Bajad | On 27 Aug 2015 Poverty reduction and economic growth can be sustained only if natural resources are managed on a sustainable basis. Greening rural development can stimulate rural economies, create jobs and help main...
by United Nations Development Programme UNDP | On 24 Aug 2015 This paper analyses an overview of china human development in Time and Space. The paper covers themes like regional inequality in China Since 1952 and Urban-Rural Inequality, 1980-2000. The paper is a...
by | On 21 Aug 2015 The concern of climate change have emphasized in the field of economics too owing to the challenge of adapting to global warming for sustainable development and growth. This challenge becomes central...
by | On 17 Aug 2015 The MDG Report 2015 found that the 15-year effort to achieve the eight aspirational goals set out in the Millennium Declaration in 2000 was largely successful across the globe, while acknowledging sho...
by United Nations UN | On 05 Aug 2015 Given that mental health and other non-communicable diseases were conspicuously omitted from the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), and have only been weakly mentioned in draft Sustainable Developme...
by Alexander C. Tsai | On 09 Jul 2015 The data and analysis presented in this report prove that, with targeted interventions, sound strategies, adequate resources and political will,
even the poorest countries can make dramatic and unpre...
by United Nations UN | On 08 Jul 2015 The paper discusses how gaps in both the data on migration and the understanding of the role of migration in livelihood strategies and economic growth in India, have led to inaccurate policy prescript...
by Priya Deshingkar | On 03 Jul 2015 With the Millennium Development Goals agenda coming to an end in 2015, the UN has released the zero draft of the outcome document for the UN Summit to adopt the Post-2015 Development Agenda on June 1,...
by | On 19 Jun 2015 This report discusses the need to eradicate hunger and achieve food security across all its dimensions. The report also identifies key factors that have determined success to date in reaching the MDG ...
by Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN UN | On 10 Jun 2015 This is a historic year: the end of 2015 is the target date for the Millennium Development Goals. Since 2001, governments across Asia and the Pacific have been striving to meet ambitious goals that ai...
by Economic and Social Commission for Asia Pacific ESCAP | On 31 May 2015 Recalling resolutions on malaria control, and accelerating efforts to control and eliminate malaria in developing countries, particularly in Africa, by 2015. Acknowledging the progress made towards th...
by World Health Organisation (WHO) | On 27 May 2015 This report looks at how, despite major strides made towards poverty reduction and towards achieving the MDGs, increasing inequality in many countries in the last two decades has hampered greater prog...
by | On 14 May 2015 This Report of the Standing Committee on Water Resources deals with the action taken by the Government on the recommendations / observations contained in their Eleventh Report on Water Resources (2008...
by Lok Sabha Secretariat | On 11 May 2015 Public Accounts Committee (2014-15) present this Eighth report (Sixteenth Lok Sabha) on water pollution in India based on C&AG Report No. 21 of 2011-12, Union Government for the year ended March 2012...
by Lok Sabha Secretariat | On 11 May 2015 The papers objective is to provide statistical evidences in terms of measures of the outcome indicators of the MDG framework as could be available for the most current years have been used in this rep...
by Ministry of Statistics and Prog Implementation (MOSPI) | On 29 Apr 2015 SAARC Development Goals are regionalized from of Millennium Development Goals, with some additional targets and indicators, for the period of five years, 2007-12. The Third SAARC Ministerial Meeting o...
by | On 24 Apr 2015 The basic purpose of this paper is to contextualise and highlight the issue of labour and working conditions in industries in the global South engaged in subcontracting operations under the control of...
by Keshab Das | On 31 Mar 2015 The 2015 World Water Development Report sets both an aspirational and a realistic vision for the future of water towards 2050. This report comes at a critical moment, when freshwater resources face ri...
by UNESCO UNESCO | On 27 Mar 2015 Budget speech of Haryana Finance Minister
by Capt. Abhimanyu | On 24 Mar 2015 This paper attempts to model the positive role of cultivation of
Genetically Modified (GM) crop with its soil-anchoring root-characteristic
and use of conservation-tillage technology, in saving orga...
by Amrita Chatterjee | On 23 Mar 2015 India has made notable progress in achieving poverty reduction and other Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) since their adoption at the turn of the century but this progress has been uneven and milli...
by United Nations Economic and Social Commission (UNESCAP) | On 19 Mar 2015 This working paper, part of ODI's Development Progress project, looks at the relationship between neglected tropical diseases and poverty. With a view towards progress in development, the paper identi...
by Fiona Samuels | On 13 Mar 2015 This report repositions a group of 17 neglected tropical diseases on the global development agenda at a time of profound transitions in the economies of endemic countries and in thinking about the ove...
by World Health Organisation (WHO) | On 09 Mar 2015 This report examines the evidence on aid, and finds that while aid alone cannot solve the deprivation experienced by people living in poverty or redress the extreme imbalance of wealth that characteri...
by Oxfam International | On 03 Feb 2015 This report examines the evidence on aid, and finds that while aid alone cannot solve the deprivation experienced by people living in poverty or redress the extreme imbalance of wealth that characteri...
by Oxfam International | On 03 Feb 2015 India is home to the largest number of children in the world, significantly larger than the number in China.1 The country has 20 per cent of the 0- 4 years’ child population of the world.
The numb...
by United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF | On 15 Oct 2014 Despite recent advances in important aspects of the lives of girls and women, pervasive challenges remain. These challenges reflect widespread deprivations and constraints and include epidemic levels...
by Jeni Klugman | On 14 Oct 2014 This report is the sixth in the series of Asia-Pacific MDG reports produced since 2004 by the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific/Asian Development Bank/United Nations Development...
by United Nations Development Programme UNDP | On 19 Sep 2014 ‘Making Education a Priority in the Post-2015 Development
Agenda: Report of the Global Thematic Consultation on
Education in the Post-2015 Development Agenda’ offers a
summary of the main themes...
by United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF | On 18 Sep 2014 The WHO-UNICEF Joint Monitoring Program (JMP) for Water and Sanitation, which tracks progress towards the water and sanitation targets of the Millennium Development Goals, estimates that 36% of the wo...
by Clarissa Brocklehurst | On 10 Sep 2014 Nepal achieved a striking reduction in maternal mortality during the 1990s and early 2000s. According to data from Nepal Demographic and Health Surveys, the country’s maternal mortality ratio (MMR) f...
by Jakob Engel | On 21 Aug 2014 This report entitled “Millennium Development Goals (MDG) India Country Report-2014’ captures the achievements in India as of today under the eight MDGs which are to be achieved by 2015. The year 2014,...
by Ministry of Statistics and Prog Implementation (MOSPI) | On 08 Jul 2014 At the turn of the century, world leaders came together at the United Nations and agreed on a bold vision for the future through the Millennium Declaration. The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) wer...
by United Nations UN | On 08 Jul 2014 This position paper identifies that there is a strong need for a new and forward-looking education agenda that completes unfinished business while going beyond the current goals in terms of depth and...
by UNESCO UNESCO | On 16 May 2014 This declaration is intended to be a framework for the outcome of the World Conference on Youth to be held in Sri Lanka in 2014. It is based on agreed principles from previous outcomes
and is intend...
by World Conference on Youth 2014 | On 13 May 2014 With the deadline for the MDGs on the horizon, progress can be reported in most areas, despite the impact of the global economic and financial crisis. The analysis in this report, based on a wide rang...
by United Nations UN | On 04 Apr 2014 Ron ore mining has caused the destruction of environment in Goa. There can be famines, droughts in the state due to the granting of iron ore mining.
by Carmen Miranda | On 02 Apr 2014 Thailand’s economy is heavily reliant on labour-intensive industries. However, growing economic prosperity since the late 1980s has seen a decline in the available Thai workforce needed to meet the la...
by Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) | On 24 Jan 2014 The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) endorsed by 189 countries in 2000 are an unprecedented global effort to achieve development goals that are identified collectively, achievable, and measurable....
by Bread for the World Institute | On 19 Dec 2013 Migration data is matched from the Indian census with climate data to
test the hypothesis of climate variability as a push factor for internal
migration. The main contribution of the analysis is to...
by Ingrid Dallmann | On 06 Sep 2013 David Jackson is a Professor of Spanish and Portuguese. His research interests include Portuguese and Brazilian Literatures; Camões, Machado de Assis, Fernando Pessoa; modernist, vanguardist, and inte...
by Yale University | On 14 Aug 2013 Salt has been an important produce of the coastal region of Goa on the west coast of India for centuries and has been exported from there to countries in Africa and the rest of Asia. But today, the tr...
by Frederick Noronha | On 22 Jul 2013 This paper seeks to map out the historical trajectory leading to a series of migrations in and from the erstwhile princely state of Travancore during 1900-70 in order to acquire and bring land under c...
by V. J. Varghese | On 26 Jun 2013 It is widely believed that the decline in agricultural productivity in the Dhemaji district of Assam, India, is due to flood-induced sand depositions in paddy fields. Increased sand content reduces th...
by Kalyan Das | On 27 May 2013 There are many nutrition policies in developing countries. What are the challenges faced by these malnutrition policies? There are many countries which have successfully included nutrition in their d...
by Olivier Ecker | On 12 Feb 2013 In this study attempt has been made to link the gender differences in parental resource allocation in demand for education at primary, secondary and tertiary level of education to gender differences i...
by Madeeha Gohar Qureshi | On 24 Jan 2013 Following the international financial crisis that started in 2007, market growth and MFI performance started to deteriorate. Over the last decade the market has matured and become more efficient. Is...
by Cédric Lützenkirchen | On 14 Jan 2013 This report reviews the input and output policies for cereals implemented in Pakistan during the period 1996–2010. Pakistan has a long and varied history of intervening in farm input and output market...
by Abdul Salam | On 16 Nov 2012 This paper analyses the trends in volume of food subsidy in the post-reforms period (1991-92 to 2012-13) and then examines various components of food subsidy, which are under the control of FCI and th...
by Vijay Paul Sharma | On 20 Sep 2012 Mangoes from Andhra Pradesh reach everywhere in India. This has caused the conversion of large tracts of paddy fields into mango farms in Andhra. It affects the rural employment. Use of chemicals to r...
by Alex George | On 14 Aug 2012 Environmental change is regarded by many geopolitical experts as one of the biggest threats to international security in the coming
years. In Southern Asia, its impact on rivers, and thus water secur...
by Dhanasree Jayaram | On 07 Aug 2012 This paper makes a first pass at evaluating embankments. Using two years or more of data from 504 households in 28 villages in the floodplain of the Kosi river in north Bihar, a comparison of the agri...
by E Somanathan | On 25 Jul 2012 Obituary: Mrinal Gore (1928-2012)
by Vibhuti Patel | On 23 Jul 2012 This paper examines the roles and challenges of small holding agriculture in India. It covers trends in agricultural growth, cultivation patterns, participation of small holding agriculture, productiv...
by S. Mahendra Dev | On 06 Jul 2012 Despite recent achievements to reduce child mortality, neonatal deaths continue to remain high, accounting
for 41% of all deaths in children under five years of age worldwide, of which over 90% occur...
by Hadley K Herbert | On 29 Mar 2012 Budget speech by Ministry of Finance, Goa. [Budget Speech]. URL:[http://www.goa.gov.in/pdf/Speech12-13.pdf].
by Goa Government | On 28 Mar 2012 Economic Survey-Chapter1. [Economic Survey]. URL:[http://indiabudget.nic.in/survey.asp]
by Pranab Mukherjee | On 15 Mar 2012 There is in urgent need for modernization and generational
Change need to be done in the Indian railways to assure safety, improve productivity, take advantage of advanced technology, respond to ever...
by Ministry of Railways | On 14 Mar 2012 The experience of childhood is increasingly urban. Over half the world’s people – including more than a
billion children – now live in cities and towns. This report adds to the growing body of eviden...
by United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF | On 01 Mar 2012 Five years age, International Rivers started monitoring the Kyoto Protocol’s Clean
Development Mechanism (CDM), concerned that funds marked for climate change mitigation would be
used to encourage c...
by Barbara Haya | On 01 Mar 2012 In India, as in many developing countries, wastewater is often used to
irrigate crops. This undoubtedly helps to recycle useful nutrients through
the food chain, but, as there can be toxic chemicals...
by Vivekananda Mukherjee | On 27 Feb 2012 What have the MDGs achieved? And what might their achievements mean for any second
generation of MDGs or MDGs 2.0? We argue that the MDGs may have played a role in increasing
aid and that developmen...
by Charles Kenny | On 24 Feb 2012 The paper is based on "Commodity Specific Study on Mango"
undertaken by NABARD in the states of Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra
and West Bengal. For the study, A total sample of 186 respondents was sele...
by G.D. Banerjee | On 17 Feb 2012 There is an uneven geographical distribution of health workers. The shortage of health workers is compounded by the fact that their skills, competencies, clinical experience, and expectations are ofte...
by Nandini Dube | On 14 Feb 2012 This paper has tried to address some key research
questions like will India and Andhra Pradesh achieve the Millennium Development
Goal of Sanitation ? Are the TSC targets realistic? What is coverage...
by M Snehalatha | On 25 Jan 2012 Lawyer Diviya Kapur chose to trade her education at the prestigious National Law School of India University (Bangalore) with running a bookshop in Goa, India. Her ideas resulted in Literati, an innova...
by Frederick Noronha | On 25 Jan 2012 Prominent researcher in Goan migration, Dr Stella Mascarenhas-Keyes, did some of the first detailed academic research (infact, her PhD) on Goan migration. She was down in Goa recently, and she spoke t...
by Frederick Noronha | On 24 Jan 2012 The Election Commission recently announced the poll schedule for Assembly elections in five States
– Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Manipur and Goa. As parties prepare for the upcoming
election...
by Rohit Kumar | On 24 Jan 2012 The release of many high-profile political prisoners by Myanmar’s government has been applauded by the international community. Many obstacles to reform still exist, but they are not the usual suspect...
by Kyaw San Wai | On 24 Jan 2012 The paper reports the results of an empirical study on the profitability
of rice cultivation in the East Calcutta Wetlands region where untreated
sewage water from the city of Calcutta, India, is us...
by Vivekananda Mukherjee | On 13 Dec 2011 The MHTF–PLoS Collection in
2011–12 will focus on quality of maternal
health care, as it is clear that such a focus
is now a global imperative [9]. The quality
of maternal health care is highly va...
by Samantha R Lattof | On 02 Dec 2011 The policy brief explores the evolving discourse on water issues in Pakistan where the process of political articulation, securitization and mobilization which often links water to Kashmir is studied....
by Medha Bisht | On 24 Nov 2011 P roponents of large dams, hoping to capitalize on concern for climate change, are promoting a major expansion of large dams in developing countries. Yet large dams are highly vulnerable to climate ch...
by International Rivers Network IRN | On 24 Nov 2011 This paper evaluates the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs) as a framework for measuring development and, subject to qualifications arising from that evaluation, assesses how India is doing in terms o...
by Sudipto Mundle | On 11 Nov 2011 Spending on consumption items is examined which have signaling value in social
interactions across groups with distinctive social identities in India, where social identities are
defined by caste an...
by Melanie Khamis | On 10 Nov 2011 Goa is celebrating the Golden Jubilee Year of its Liberation. The recent economic achievements of the state are highlighted. The economic and financial structure of the state as well as the various fi...
by Deepak Mohanty | On 04 Nov 2011 This paper investigates the relationship between returns to cultivation per hectare and size-class of land cultivated in India, using unit level data from the 59th round National Sample Survey, 2003....
by Sarthak Gaurav | On 18 Oct 2011 The study aims to explore how the MNCH committee encouraged community
participation and how its communication activities empowered the community people
to ensure the healthcare needs of the poor and...
by Margaret Leppard | On 17 Oct 2011 This article reviews beer production, consumption and the industrial organization of breweries throughout history. Monasteries were the centers of the beer economy in the early Middle Ages. Innovation...
by Eline Poelmans | On 14 Oct 2011 The paper examines the farm level performance of System of Rice Intensification (SRI) method of paddy cultivation as against the traditional method. The role of NGOs in raising awareness among farmers...
by Jharna Pathak | On 22 Sep 2011 This background paper seeks to brief readers on the extent of the development, production and
consumption of agrofuels, particularly liquid fuels for transport, in the Mekong region. The area of focu...
by Rebeca Leonard | On 12 Sep 2011 In preparing the Approach Paper, the Planning Commission has consulted much more
widely than ever before recognising the fact that citizens are now much better informed and
also keen to engage. Over...
by Planning Commission, India | On 12 Sep 2011 The project aimed to
find the reasons for bottlenecks in the present system that deprive the
tribal community of the benefit of schemes. Five villages from each block have been selected to
make tot...
by Maharana Pratap Adhyayan Evam Jan Kalyan Sansthan Jaipur | On 02 Sep 2011 Poverty and food security in the context of Bangladesh has become a major concern
over time. While efforts have been intensified to increase crop yield through increased
land use, using inorganic fe...
by Shyamal C Ghosh | On 30 Aug 2011 Poor returns to cultivation and absence of non-farm opportunities are indicative of the larger
socio-economic malaise in rural India. This is accentuated by the multiple risks that the
farmer faces...
by Srijit Mishra | On 23 Aug 2011 This paper provides estimates of the costs of organic agriculture (OA) programs, and sets them in the context of the costs of attaining the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). It anal...
by Anil Markandya | On 19 Aug 2011 This paper is a review of the different coping mechanisms adopted by the households in
different dryland area of India. The primary focus of the present paper is to understand
the coping mechanisms...
by Nikhil Govind | On 05 Aug 2011 The June issue of World Rivers Review is overflowing with ideas on on how to maintain healthy flows in rivers, for their health and our own. If a river's flow is its heartbeat, then we humans have bec...
by International Rivers Network IRN | On 13 Jun 2011 Linking funding decisions to performance can help the best programs continue and give program managers strong incentives to lead their programs well. Performance-based funding can also have unintended...
by Nandini Oomman | On 31 May 2011 GDP growth likely to average 8.2 per cent over 11th Plan: short of the 9% target, but remarkable given the global crisis and drought. Basic objective : Faster, More Inclusive, and Sustainable Growth
...
by Planning Commission | On 25 Apr 2011 The paper presents some empirical data from the Pradhan Tribe of Andhra
Pradesh which highlights the community's indigenous agricultural knowledge and the
changes over time. These custodians of indi...
by Anil Kumar K | On 25 Apr 2011 This paper presents the annual budget of the Goa Government containing the Annual Financial Statement. URL: [https://www.goa.gov.in/portalweb/login/budget_2011-12/speech.pdf]
by Goa Government | On 06 Apr 2011 With 11 large hydropower dams proposed to block the Lower Mekong River’s mainstream, the future of
the river lies at a crossroads. To inform decision-making, in October 2010, the Mekong River Commiss...
by International Rivers Network IRN | On 29 Mar 2011 The briefing kit highlights key examples
of policies, regulations and laws that reflect these WCD
recommendations and references specific projects that
demonstrate them in action. [IRN brief]. URL:...
by International Rivers Network IRN | On 17 Mar 2011 Recent literature has not only recognized the implementation limitations of formal regulation, but also appreciated the significance of informal regulation for achieving environmental goals for develo...
by Vinish Kathuria | On 18 Feb 2011 The present report aims to generate greater
awareness and environmental consciousness amongst
our citizens. The objective of the report, therefore,
is to generate a national debate among various
s...
by Ministry of Environment and Forests GOI | On 16 Feb 2011 Developing countries in Asia debate the following policy question: Should we allocate scarce resources to promote competition and thereby procure resulting efficiency gains, or would we do better to f...
by Douglas H. Brooks | On 15 Feb 2011 The aim of this paper is to study the devolution of finances in Karnataka. For facilitating the study the budgets of Zilla Panchayats of four districts are analyzed and also development of these regio...
by A. Indira | On 07 Feb 2011 This paper aims to trace the progress of efforts to reduce hunger in Asia and the
Pacific, to identify reasons for their successes and failures, and to suggest policy
initiatives to help make tangib...
by Shiladitya Chatterjee | On 04 Feb 2011 Improving our ability to cope with floods under current and future climates requires adopting a more sophisticated set of techniques -- the "soft path" of flood risk management, which aims to understa...
by International Rivers Network IRN | On 31 Jan 2011 There has been growing concern over conversion of coastal rice paddies to shrimp farms. This study estimates the external cost of shrimp-induced salinity on crop production by comparing two villages i...
by L. Umamaheswari | On 13 Jan 2011 The speech is mainly about the "two cultures” (modern society—the cultures
of the science and that of the humanities) syndrome—the apparent gap between those espousing the case for faster
economic g...
by Jairam Ramesh | On 23 Dec 2010 Slippage is one of the main bottlenecks of achieving full coverage of water and sanitation
services in India. This paper makes an attempt to identify the causes of slippage
in a systematic manner. T...
by V. Ratna Reddy | On 02 Dec 2010 Trade liberalization, by aligning domestic prices with world prices, is envisaged to bring
welfare gains to a country. In the case of Indian agriculture, owing to the vastness and
diversity of the s...
by Nilabja Ghosh | On 11 Nov 2010 Based on a multi-sited based ethnography conducted during August 95 through February 96 in two inland tribal regions of Orissa the study tries to identify temporal and spatial specifications in terms...
by Srijit Mishra | On 08 Nov 2010 The recent global financial crisis reflects numerous breakdowns in the prudential discipline of
financial firms. This paper discusses ways to strengthen micro- and macroprudential
supervision and...
by Larry D. Wall | On 18 Oct 2010 They analyse the aid portfolio of various bilateral and multilateral donors, testing whether
they have prioritized aid in line with the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
Employing Tobit models...
by Rainer Thiele | On 13 Oct 2010 The record of aid to fragile and poorly-performing states is the real test of aid
effectiveness. Rich countries can justify aid to fragile states both through altruism and
self-interest. But, wit...
by Stephen Browne | On 06 Oct 2010 In many parts of Bangladesh water scarcity is a
seasonal problem. An assessment is done to understand whether water is being used
efficiently for the cultivation of one of the most
important food c...
by Nasima Tanveer Chowdhury | On 05 Oct 2010 The wage rate in s casual labour market, paddy field labour, is estimated from a reduced form version of a supply and demand model after incorporating literacy, caste and the degree of m...
by K. Pushpangadan | On 27 Sep 2010 Before we can assess where we are with the MDG Process, we need to be clear about what the objectives are of setting the MDGs and the MDG Process. In order to do this, two fundamental questions need t...
by Ravi Kanbur | On 21 Sep 2010 The European Union is a profoundly political project and one which
has attempted to achieve important political goals through economic
means. Initially through the establishment of a coal and steel
...
by Christopher F. Patten | On 07 Sep 2010 The world’s democracy and its second most populous country, India was the first developing country to have a national family planning program and has implemented countrywide reproductive health progra...
by Dileep V. Mavalankar | On 10 Aug 2010 The world changed on July 2, 1997 when Thailand floated the baht.
Explanations abound on the origins of the crisis - indeed it is a growth industry.
This study is part of that explosion. It has seve...
by Surjit S. Bhalla | On 10 Aug 2010 Many small wholesale grain markets in India are characterized by large
numbers of sellers and a relatively small number of buyers, thereby lending the price
formation process open to manipulation th...
by J.V. Meenakshi | On 26 Jul 2010 This paper discusses in detail the vast and rich agricultural knowledge that India has developed since ancient times, and the entire agricultural community trying to find an alternative sustainable fa...
by D. Kumara Charyulu | On 08 Jul 2010 In consonance with the global trend of redefining the role of the government in
developing and transition economies from producer to facilitator, there is today a lively
debate in India on governm...
by J.V. Meenakshi | On 07 Jul 2010 The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have lofty expectations regarding the
impact of official development aid. Are these expectations valid? This paper surveys the
literature on aid and growth...
by Tony Addison | On 21 Jun 2010 The Theun-Hinboun Expansion Project – a dam and diversion project under construction in Central Laos – violates the Equator Principles and Lao law, according to this report. It documents how Lao villa...
by Ikuko Matsumoto | On 17 Jun 2010 In this
paper an argument is made that the concept of inclusive growth should go beyond the traditional emphasis on the poor
(and the rest) and take into account changes in the size and economic c...
by Nancy Birdsall | On 31 May 2010 The world’s biggest carbon offset market, the Clean Development Mechanism, is a global shell game that is
increasing greenhouse gas emissions behind the guise of promoting sustainable development. It...
by Patrick McCully | On 14 May 2010 This paper aims to examine the policy debates on women's education and highlight some of the
basic issues affecting the progress of women's education since the introduction of planned
development in...
by Balaji Pandey | On 08 Feb 2010 The purpose of this study was to explore the role and importance of human resources for the
scaling up of health services in low income countries. In the case studies, the following have been analyze...
by Christoph Kurowski | On 28 Jan 2010 This paper examines national-level explanations for poverty decline in Bangladesh in micro-level
detail, in order to better understand the nature of the causalities at work and why some
households h...
by Naila Kabeer | On 28 Jan 2010 Using data from a survey of clients of a microfinance bank,
Khushhali Bank, in 2005, the study revisited the survey data and found that despite the
Bank’s strict poverty-targeting program used in cl...
by Sununtar Setboonsarng | On 25 Jan 2010 This paper attempts to explain the provision of social security in the fisheries sector of Kerala State in south India. It enumerates the salient achievements and the problems faced by the state in pr...
by John Kurien | On 14 Jan 2010 This paper examines these difficulties of regulation in the context of spread of unapproved
transgenic Bt cotton seeds in India. This paper also examines the impact of the cultivation of approved and...
by Bharat Ramaswami | On 08 Dec 2009 This paper addresses issues related to public private partnerships that can enable delivery
of comprehensive health care to rural communities.
by Prachi Shukla | On 25 Nov 2009 In this paper the diverse dimensions of gender development are examined using
individual indicators for the districts of the western region of India. The western
region for the purpose of this study...
by Preet Rustagi | On 24 Nov 2009 This paper aims at discussing some of the important issues relating to sustainable urban form that would lead to sustainable urban development with possible references to India. The paper is based on...
by Basudha Chattopadhyay | On 17 Nov 2009 The prevailing attitude is that ‘development’ is important, and that if people have to be pushed around for this, so be it. This a response to the views expressed by E Sreedharan on the Yamuna, ‘Restr...
by Ramaswamy R. Iyer | On 14 Jun 2009 The growth of ethical consumerism in developed countries has led to increased imports of environmentally and socially certified products produced by the poor in developing countries, which could poten...
by Sununtar Setboonsarng | On 13 May 2009 Girls in Green
Goa1556, Goa;
2009, Rs. 120.
by GNN Goanet News | On 25 Apr 2009 The report discusses for the first time the linkages between climate change and dam-building in the Himalayas, and comprehensively analyzes the impacts of the dam building spree on the region's people...
by Shripad Dharmadhikary | On 26 Dec 2008 The paper gives us a study about a village Iruvelippatu, Tamil NaduSome features of agrarian economies have also been studied. [WP No. 42].
by K N Raj | On 03 Dec 2008 A case study in Goa is used to examine whether tenure security and asset re-distribution can lead to environmentally sustainable outcomes.
by Pranab Mukhopadhyay | On 28 Nov 2008 Men who will stop the water: vignettes from Goa's mining heartland
by Hartman de Souza | On 26 Sep 2008 because their traditional ‘slash and burn’ agriculture is
becoming increasingly unsustainable. Farmers in these
communities have to farm more intensively and this is causing a whole host of environm...
by M. A. Monayem Miah | On 19 Sep 2008 The Sundarban National Park is among five Natural World Heritage Sites in India and part of the world’s largest mangrove eco-system. The remote island communities that surround the Park are dependent...
by Indrila Guha | On 16 Sep 2008 Research Studies on Rice/Paddy initiated by Hivos in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India and The
Netherlands looked at several aspects related to ecological/environmental, economic, institutional, social/gen...
by G V Ramanjaneyulu | On 15 Sep 2008 In our analysis, attempts have been made to quantify the proportion of births attended by health workers other than doctors, nurses and midwives in order to show the proportion of births conducted by...
by World Health Organisation WHO | On 08 Aug 2008 This study evaluates the economic feasibility of replacing shifting cultivation (Jhum) with settled agriculture and new soil conservation technology based on an assessment of the farmers’ risk and cor...
by M. A. Monayem Miah | On 29 Jul 2008 The primary goal of this paper is to examine the impact of organic farming on economics of sugarcane cultivation in Maharashtra. The study is based on primary data collected from two districts coverin...
by Kshirsagar K G | On 14 Jul 2008 The important elements of inclusive growth are: agricultural growth,
employment generation and poverty reduction, social sector (health and education) and
reduction in regional and other disparities...
by S.Mahendra Dev | On 31 May 2008 A monthly compilation by IRIS.
by IRIS India IRIS | On 09 Apr 2008 Budget presented by Goa finance minister for the year 2008-09.
by Goa Government | On 01 Apr 2008 Speech of Prof. K. Anbazhagan, Minister for Finance, Government of Tamil Nadu, presenting the Budget for 2008-2009 to the Legislative Assembly on 20th March,
2008.
by Tamil Nadu Government | On 25 Mar 2008 The first of the eight Millennium Development Goals is to halve extreme poverty and hunger by 2015. In India, thirty two and a half million people fall below the national poverty line by making out-of...
by Charu C. Garg | On 07 Feb 2008 A new survey finds that only 17 drugs are under active development for maternal health indications, which is less than 3% of the pipeline in cardiovascular health (660 drugs). The international agenci...
by Nicholas M Fisk | On 30 Jan 2008 This paper investigates the relationship between the policy regime and growth during 1950-64 termed here ‘the Nehru era’. While there exist valuable early appraisals of the period, access to new data...
by Pulapre Balakrishnan | On 28 Jan 2008 A monthly compilation by IRIS.
by IRIS India IRIS | On 11 Jan 2008 A monthly compilation by IRIS.
by IRIS India IRIS | On 28 Dec 2007 A monthly compilation by IRIS.
by IRIS India IRIS | On 22 Oct 2007 The social, environmental and economic impacts of dams are summarised and outlines better options for water management and energy supply. [IRN Brief].
by International Rivers Network IRN | On 18 Oct 2007 When the heavens open, nature celebrates. And brings out Goa’s wild mushrooms.
by Valmiki Faleiro | On 26 Aug 2007 A monthly compilation by IRIS.
by IRIS India IRIS | On 22 Aug 2007 The first in a new column. On the wonderful world of Goa’s horticultural heritage and enterprise.
by Valmiki Faleiro | On 19 Aug 2007 A monthly compilation by IRIS.
by IRIS India IRIS | On 06 Jul 2007 It is a pleasant surprise that the 14th SAARC Summit should come up with decisive noises on the urgent need to accelerate progress in South Asia towards the Millennium Development Goals.
by Lakshmi Priya | On 18 Apr 2007 The primary objective of this report is to illustrate the most menacing threats to the world’s great river basins, in order to encourage dialogue, provoke debate, and urge governments and other stakeh...
by C M Wong | On 23 Mar 2007 By using two large repeated cross-sections, one for the early 1990s, and one for the late 1990s, the growth in school enrolment is described and completion rates for boys and girls in India, and to ex...
by Sonia Bhalotra | On 22 Mar 2007 The gives an idea about the North-eastern region (NER) by giving area, population and desnity of population. The paper speaks about how important is the primary sector, dependency ratio, shifting cult...
by S.K. Mishra | On 16 Mar 2007 Budget speech of finance minister 2007-08
by Goa Government | On 16 Mar 2007 Land Reforms Act in Kerala rendered tenancy invalid and prohibited the creation of future tenancies in the State, but tenancy very much exists. It is a consequence of the simultaneous increase in two...
by K.N. Nair | On 07 Mar 2007 This report documents the history of the systems of rice intensification (SRI, for short) in India in the last few years and presents some of the institutional changes and challenges that SRI throws u...
by C. Shambu Prasad | On 06 Dec 2006 This paper dwells on the essential requirements of economic
development and the role of international credit,. It is also an incursion into
the operational principles and strategies of the World Ba...
by Musa Jega Ibrahim | On 01 Jun 2006 The budget 2006-07 proposals in health care fell well short of India’s march towards achieving Millennium Development Goals(MDGs), the National Health Policy (NHP) goals and fully operationalising the...
by Vinish Kathuria | On 09 May 2006 Based on field work in a village panchayat in Kerala, analyzing
the complex issues concerning the development and working of irrigation
institutions, the present study reveals that successful manage...
by Vineetha Menon | On 27 Apr 2006 On November 28, 2003, roughly 300 grassroots activists, people affected by
large dams and representatives from NGOs gathered in a small village in Rasi
Salai district in Northeast Thailand. They met...
by Susanne Wong | On 25 Apr 2006 A sleepy village has transformed itself by accepting the challenges of diversification to vegetable cultivation in order to cope with the uncertainty of coir cultivation and manufacture.
by M.K. Das | On 22 Oct 2005 A silent revolution, engineered either by individuals or NGOs,
is happening in the state's backyards. These new entrepreneurs reflect a new trend in Kerala, long used to cosy state patronage for ever...
by M.K. Das | On 10 Sep 2005 |