Smart city financing laden with trouble

Allocation of funds is not equitable even as local bodies face difficulties in generating money

Natural resources can pay for Myanmar's needs

The government can allocate money more rationally between ministries and set ministry spending limits based on available resources, thanks …

The truth behind developed nations' pledge to mobilise climate finance

A crucial issue is whether private money should be included in the target to reach US $100 billion for mitigating climate change impacts

Bond, green bond

India has finally entered the green bond market, but at a time when the bonds are not doing well globally. Have we missed the bus?

Setting up shop

First, the government shook scientific institutions out of their lethargy by applying the brake on funds. Now, its asking them to tie up with …

Book review: Panchayats, democracy and development

In 1992 the Indian Parliament approved of the 73rd constitutional amendment, which made it mandatory for state governments to devolve powers to …

Report: Face financial risk - Ignore climate change

A 2003 report, Carbon Finance and the Global Equity Markets, identifies changing climate due to rising global average temperature as one of the …

COP27: Adaptation pledge sum 35% less than Glasgow, despite UN call for more support

Forty per cent of adaptation fund pledged in Glasgow not yet met 

COP27: Developing & developed blocks lock horns over new climate finance roadmap

Wealthy nations want to expand the donor base with New Collective Quantified Goal

CHINA

Government to boost scientific research

Government to re-introduce tax breaks for hotels, hospitals

PM Modi: Climate action ambitions must match with action on climate finance

Calls for democratising climate action in a blog article

Who said what and pledged how much

‘States that use less must get less’

Standing committee makes allocation of tribal funds conditional

Making it mandatory

Growth of R&D

Helping hand

GAP II CLEARED

Local flavour

In new conservation recipe

Devolution suffers setback

India's decentralisation process receives yet another blow

Funds flowing

A Tughlakian folly

Interlinking rivers is politically unwise, ecologically destructive and financially unviable

100 per cent FDI in housing

Will Maharashtra boom or boomerang?

Revamp, really?

Government juggles with data to rehash Northeast India's industrial policy