Full coverage: Development

21.03.2007 The new free trade agreements being signed up between rich and poor countries are proving far more damaging to the poor than anything envisaged within WTO talks, Oxfam said in a report

21.03.2007 India has been remarkably successful in boosting economic growth: its economy has grown at about 6 percent per annum since the 1990s, with growth accelerating to 9 percent over the past two years. Absolute poverty has been cut in half, and the country seems set to achieve middle income status soon.

20.03.2007 OWSA is organisin a half-day consultation on Climate Change that is being held in our premises on the 23rd March, 2007. The consultation is intended to facilitate deliberations on the topic - Climate Change: Where are we and where do we go?

20.03.2007 Nandigram in West Bengal has emerged as the lightning rod for criticism of the government’s economic policies. While previous clashes here over the proposed Special Economic Zone (SEZ) have killed at least seven people including a policeman, the events of March 14 put a halt to the West Bengal government’s industrialisation bid and has forced a re-think at the national level.

19.03.2007 Reseña-- El libro demuestra que en el Siglo XIX se colocaron los cimientos del NOM, mediante la articulación de los grandes banqueros, especuladores, fabricantes de armas, empresarios mineros y petroleros del mundo con oligarcas nativos, que mantienen a Bolivia en el atraso y la miseria.

19.03.2007 “Lo que estamos haciendo hoy, construyendo un mercado, es importante en sí, pero a mi me interesa mucho más como paso concreto y práctico hacia una nueva relación entre las dos naciones de esta isla de Quisqueya”, alegó el embajador de la Comisión Europea en nuestro país.

19.03.2007 After more than four years of sitting on the fence on the issue of pesticide residues in carbonated soft drinks, the government has finally taken a stand. But will it follow through on its promise to put in place mandatory food safety norms?

19.03.2007 It is difficult to figure out what exactly the UPA government wants. On the one hand, from the declaration of the National Common Minimum Programme onwards, the government has declared that it will make education a major thrust area, that it will increase public spending on education to at least 6 per cent of GDP and take measures to make India a ''knowledge-based'' society and economy.

16.03.2007 El Colectivo Centroamérica por el Diálogo (CAD) y más de veinte organismos civiles de la región, durante un encuentro en Tegucigalpa, Honduras, entregaron a la Unión Europea y al CC-Sica, una declaración en que advierten de los efectos negativos que para sus pueblos provocan los llamados Tratados de Libre Comercio

16.03.2007 Starting with March 2007, the Milieukontakt initiated its regional programme “Joint Efforts towards Sustainable Future for Western Balkans”.

15.03.2007 Sangath Society, a Goa-based CSO working with mental health issues, has come up with the concept of ‘resource rooms’ for children with learning disabilities, within their normal schools, where they can be given special attention. The concept is currently being pilot-tested in three schools in the state

15.03.2007 Billed by one financial paper as the first step in a Global Indian Takeover, the acquisition of Anglo-Dutch steel major Corus by the Tata group is as much about upper-crust India's new nationalism as it is about corporate strategy. Tata's victory in the final head-to-head auction against Brazil's Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional (CSN) is undoubtedly a major event in the country's corporate history.

15.03.2007 Actualmente hay doce familias que, según Mayorga, tienen un capital de más de 100 millones de dólares, que son, en gran medida, producto del singular talento de algunos líderes empresariales, pero también, en otros casos, de las influencias que han ejercido sobre el sistema político que les ha dado privilegios.

15.03.2007 Creyendo y practicando el Comercio Internacional, la Cámara de Empresarios Pro-Costa Rica, se opone, sin embargo, al texto del actual Tratado de Libre Comercio porque el mismo va más allá del comercio y viene a modificar aspectos medulares del sistema

15.03.2007 Si è parlato di Africa senza partire da un’emergenza nel convegno “L’Africa in pista”, promosso dal VIS che si è tenuto nei giorni scorsi a Roma. L’incontro, i cui interventi hanno preso spunto dall’ultimo libro dell’assessore Touadi “L’Africa in pista” ha toccato temi scottanti e attualissimi: dai grandi problemi strutturali africani, alla cooperazione internazionale, al rapporto del continente con il resto del mondo e in particolare con l’Europa. Lucio Caracciolo, direttore della rivista LIMES, ha sottolineato che “l'Africa è uno dei terreni geopolitici e umani più interessanti”, mentre Antonio Raimondi ha ribadito quanto sia stata fallimentare la cooperazione internazionale sino ad oggi. “Ci dobbiamo rendere conto che l’Africa deve partecipare a pieno titolo alla partita globale perché senza di lei non andremmo lontano”.

14.03.2007 WASHINGTON, Mar 13 (IPS) - An independent review of the International Monetary Fund's operations in Africa says the lender's work is confused, vague, lacks transparency and suffers from a large gap between rhetoric and practice.

14.03.2007 A ban by the Sri Lankan government on young mothers taking up jobs as housemaids in foreign countries, to minimise social disruption at home, has whipped up a storm of protests with rights groups slamming the move as hasty and poorly planned.

14.03.2007 A Division Bench of Delhi High Court headed by the Hon'ble Chief Justice asked the Government of Delhi to respond to Social Jurist PIL highlighting that large number of out of school children between the age group of 6 to 14 years are denied admission by government schools on unjustified grounds, like, overcrowded classrooms, absence of drinking water, absence of functional toilet blocks, expiry of date of admission etc.

09.03.2007 El Programa de Aceleración del Crecimiento (PAC), lanzado por el presidente Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva a fines de enero, ha animado a algunos sectores de la economía, pero también ha provocado incertidumbres y preocupaciones en otros, principalmente entre los ambientalistas.

09.03.2007 Information and communication technologies (ICT) have effectively revolutionized our society. In the era of globalisation, technology has dramatically penetrated into every area of society and, every aspect of social and cultural lives. But, teaching, and the world of education more generally have not taken the advantage of these changes. We have largely failed to capitalize on the potential of new technologies, and particularly digital technology as a learning tool