International meet on Avian flu agree on a roadmap

Not so lovely fair trade

Dirty advance

Budget pitches for agriculture

No incentives for organic fertilizers and sustainable farming  

Debt crisis and gap in affordable climate finance in focus at IMF, World Bank meeting

Spring Meetings 2023 took place from April 10-16, 2023 in Washington DC

Money set aside to build institutions, not public health

Preventive and primary healthcare get a miss in the budget 2014

Money set aside to build institutions, not public health

Preventive and primary healthcare get a miss in the budget 2014

World Bank axes coal-power funds

While India is unfazed by the decision, other developing countries may be hit hard

For a place in the sun

Doubts persist over Green Climate Fund taking off at Doha

Workshop on climate finance gives hope, but a lot of work remains to be done

Nothing to smile about!

Yashwant Sinha pleases the industry by playing a rude joke on the environment

Hydropower back in World Bank's good books

Digging shallow

CAMPA bill defeated

Climate change could hit India, 58 other nations’ credit ratings

Countries ranking higher on sovereign ratings likely to face more severe downgrades

Sunita's Bytes on Budget

South Africa to phase in carbon tax from 2015

Tax to increase at 10 per cent per year; draft policy sets relief limits

Mixed signals for vehicles, transportation

SUVs to be expensive but not diesel cars

Banks expand arms, but not through branches

Smart cards, biometric ATMs, mobile phones the new tools

Up in smoke

National programme on improved chulhas put on ice

World Bank funds for agricultural research

Rural people can now get anganwadis on demand

Solar lighting systems successful in Rajasthan

Commercial breach

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