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Sustainable Development

Women?s empowerment key to ending violence

DOREEN NAWA, Lusaka UNDER the banner “Peace begins at home: End violence, empower women” Gender Links is calling for a radical shift in approaches to ending vio...

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Food & water crisis ahead

India’s rising affluence and water profligacy could trigger a food crisis very soon At first blush, there is a lot to be cheerful about. India’s index of indust...

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Sustainable Development

The sanitation challenge

The U.N. set the Millennium Development Goals or the MDG between 2000 and 2015. Goals 4 and 7 was to halve the number of people without access to improved water or sanitati...

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Environment

India's rural sector deeply at risk from climate change

India, one of the largest agrarian economies in the world, is deeply at risk from climate change, and could see economic losses of up to 8.7% of its gross domestic product ...

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Sustainable Development

Has Indian agriculture turned the corner?

Agricultural extension services will have to be centre piece of any future strategy to improve agricultural performance For long Indian agriculture has been beset by two ki...

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India can increase GDP by more than a quarter by giving more women jobs

The rate of India’s female graduates entering the workforce is lower than the rate of illiterate women finding a job. India ranks the second lowest in the Group of 20...

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Environment

Creating the climate for India’s low carbon growth story

Buried under the din of the changing electoral climate, India took an important step in its fight against climate change this summer. The ‘Expert Group on Low Carbon ...

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Environment

India need not worry about a drought yet

The weather bureau predicted on Friday that it will begin raining early next month. The criterion for the assessment of droughts is clear. For the millions of Indians waiti...

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Sustainable Development

World Bank reports that India is facing a serious power crisis

A government bailout in 2001 was the size of Nepal’s GDP. The money it cost the exchequer to write off power sector losses in 2011 would have paid for 15,000 hospital...

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400 million workers in India have little security, few entitlements

A new report finds that the great majority of labour in India works in one form or the other of informal employment, allowing those who pay them to dodge labour laws. In In...

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