This paper applies an innovative method to estimate poverty in India in the absence of recent expenditure data. The method utilizes expenditure data from 2004-05, 2009-10, and 2011-12 to impute household
Taking a big step forward in its action plan to deal with climate change, India has decided to make targeted reductions in its energy intensity during the next five-year plan period as a result of which it will be able to take on specific cuts in its carbon emissions by 2020.
If some of the popular writing in the western media is to be believed, India
At the India Economic Summit which opened today, government, industry and policy wonks will debate a report
THE agriculture ministry plans to allow private players to import and supply urea, as it looks to bring down the fertiliser subsidy bill that has touched Rs 1,00,000 crore in 2008-09.
High US Government officials believe that it is highly unreasonable by the developing nations to request the industrialized nations or the Annexure One countries to cut down greenhouse gas emissions by 40 per cent in 2020.
South Korea and China lead the world's 20 largest economies in the percentage of economic stimulus money they invest in environmental projects, the U.N. Environment Program reported on Thursday. Other members of the Group of 20 leading economic powers, including the United States, trail behind in percentage of green investment from stimulus money, the agency found.
The country
A summit of world leaders has dimmed hopes for a strong new U.N. climate pact to replace the Kyoto Protocol in Copenhagen in December, with details looking ever more likely to be left for 2010. But climate change experts and observers also refused to focus on the negative, noting that many countries struggling with recession were likely to make concessions only at the last moment.
China laid out a plan to curb carbon emissions by 2020 and U.S. President Barack Obama called on all nations to act now to tackle global warming, as world leaders tried to inject momentum into climate change talks.
