Desperately seeking skills & jobs

India has a youth bulge in its population, accounting for the largest number of young working age people in the world. This demographic …

How to contain Himalayan tsunamis

The Himalaya has one of the most fragile topographies among mountain ranges of the world on account of being the youngest. Even though its phase …

On foot and pedal

The teeming millions on foot and pedal are powering mobility in Indian cities. Their numbers exceed those who use cars. Yet they are victims of …

The past and present of rivers

Author(s): Karuna Futane We are a generation that has turned flowing fresh water rivers to rivers of sewage and garbage. We have lost rivers. …

Lives of others

Wildlife is more of an academic concern except when the charismatic tiger is wiped out from a protected forest or our favourite fish vanishes …

Lavasa exposed

By its looks, the place could be mistaken for Portofino, a fishing village-cum-resort in Italy—multi-coloured buildings crowd a waterfront …

Needed: a new yardstick

Gross National Product may be an inadequate measure of economic activity when environmental damage occurs

Provocative old hat

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The art behind development

CULTURE AND DEVELOPMENT Ismail Serageldin Producer and director Katrina J Ecolivet Produced by the World Bank 52 mins

Together we stand

Will the National Alliance of People's Movements be a whiff of Fresh air blowing in winds of change, reforming the way the country views development?

Africa’s economic progress requires investment in people: ECA

According to the ECA, Africa’s growth story is underpinned by increased investment in infrastructure, rapid urbanisation and rising …

'Politics, science and civil society will determine success of SDGs'

Paul V Gandingen, director at Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation (ESPA) and a UNESCO chair, talks about how countries can achieve …

Learning the language of transformation

PIONEERS OF CHANGE - EXPERIMENTS IN CREATING A HUMANE SOCIETY Jeremy Seabrook Publisher: New Society Publishers, Philadelphia Price: Not stated

Science in Africa: homegrown solutions and talent must come first

The continent, home to around 16% of the world’s population, produces less than 1% of the world's research output

Population prompts progress

The experience of a Kenyan community contradicts a traditional theory that population and development are inversely proportional

Report good, report middling

HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORT 1994 Publisher: United Nations Development Programme and Oxford University Press Price: Rs 195

Panchayats' working women

Slowly but steadly, women elected to panchayats are asserting themselves and, in the process, giving a new thrust to grassroot governance

For all the wrong reasons

Limiting the number of projects awarded to a NGO will do more harm than good. The civil society is an important ingredient of governance. Why …

MADHYA PRADESH: Bureaucrats rule

Why was a chief minister praised for bringing in decentralisation voted out? RICHARD MAHAPATRA finds out

KERALA: 7 years on

A programme in crisis. RICHARD MAHAPATRA and E VIJAYALAKSHMI find out the many ways decentralised planning is faltering

Not merely a numbers game

Although the recently held world population summit emphasised population control in the developing countries as the main block in the path to …

LEARNING THE VALUE OF T R E E S

NAME - Mangilal Rawat AGE - 45 CASTE - Bhil FATHER'S NAME - Sur Singh VILLAGE - Ojhad BLOCK - Sondwa DISTRICT - Jhabua

Journey across the Global South: Sharing and exchanging sustainable development solutions

Despite progress, developing countries face a wide range of challenges and experiences that span areas such as economic growth, environmental and …

Report places rural transformation at the heart of economic development

IFAD report bats for emphasis on agriculture and employment to reduce rural poverty

Rush for new development goals

UN works on agenda to follow millennium goals; civil society says it has been given little role