Sense of service

Caution should be exercised while liberalising the services sector

Hunt for survival!

Pakistan's national animal's trophy hunted -- for conservation and income to the poor

British American Tobacco's documents smoked out

CBD versus WTO

Research must go on

An icmr workshop shows developing researchers ways to live with trips

Review Blood Diamond

Industry wants alien shrimp

End of innocence

Sumana Narayanan inadvertently walks the thin line between a curio and wildlife contraband

COM2024: African ministers express worry after report shows poor intra-African trade

Regional integration remains critical in African efforts to achieve productive and sustainable development

UK after Brexit: farm subsidy could be significantly reduced to comply with WTO rules

Being an EU member state, the UK had been insulated from WTO rules that dictate the size of subsidies and how they are paid

China's loss to US in WTO is not good news for India

India calculates subsidy the same way as China, which lost the case for giving too much subsidy to its wheat, rice farmers

CITES CoP 2019: Proposals to resume sales of ivory stockpiles rejected

The last time sales of ivory stockpiles had been allowed in 2008, ivory smuggling had skyrocketed across Africa

CITES adopts resolution to end corruption in wildlife trade

This historic resolution aims at eliminating corruption at every stage of wildlife trade from poaching to selling of wildlife products

CITES COP19: ‘Recognise women’s effort in tackling wildlife trade’

Gender gaps obfuscate understanding of real-world illegal wildlife trade activities & appropriate intervention 

How ‘tiger farms’ have turned a wild animal into a species worth more dead than alive

Tigers in parts of east and south-east Asia can come in bottled form, sold openly in industrial breeding centres as tiger bone wine, a concoction …

India must reap benefits of booming floriculture industry

With the size of individual farm lands diminishing by the day, horticulture holds immense potential to augment income of many small farmers

Caribbeans fight to protect market share

A GATT ruling that the proposed EC import regime for bananas is unfair to Latin America, has the poorer Caribbean producers up in arms.

Consuming to sustain?

At UNCED, the North tried using the facile argument that their larger consumption actually provided trade and jobs for the poorer South. But …

Chopping down the future

About 90 per cent of Arunachal Pradesh's revenue is generated by its forests. Yet these very forests are under heavy pressure, thanks to …

The investment dilemma

Technological improvement for greater efficiency faces many hurdles, especially poor immediate returns on investment

Still in the bind

Least developed countries (LDCs) are caught in a vicious cycle of debt and aid. Stiff and biased trade barriers by industrialised countries helps …

Heavy levy

US adopts a tough stand on softwood imports from Canada, imposing a 27 per cent duty on the imports

The Baigas and their weavers

The buzzword these days in Baigachak is the Baiga Mahapanchayat. It is an effort of Nai Disha, a non-governmental organisation (NGO) in Sijhora …

Well-oiled racket

Two incidents of illegal handling of waste oil have come to light recently, underscoring the fact that trade in the hazardous product continues …

China syndrome in tiger trade

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