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Toxins on our plate: India

There is a need for better regulation and monitoring to bring toxin-free food to the Indian market. “The recent scare due to the detection of formalin-laced fish across Goa, Kerala, Assam, Manipur, Nagaland and Meghalaya points to a link between water quality and food safety. Fish traders find it

India needs big policy push for treatment and reuse of urban wastewater

News of water scarcity fuels a lot of hue and cry in the nation, however when it comes to discussions about solutions we find very less engagement of people across all the sections of the society. It is an irony that when the Niti Ayog released its Composite Water Management Index (CWMI) 2018, the s

Three Nobel Prizes in economics ≠ the truth about aid

Terence Wood Aid will never solve all the world’s development problems. Aid can be improved. Aid can and should be criticised. But when criticism is incoherent and incorrect, it is worse than no criticism at all. Development twitter erupted in chirping this week. The cause was a Guardian op-edfro

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Breaking menstruation taboo: Nepal

Cecial Adhikari Menstruation Hygiene Day 2018 was celebrated with tag line #nomorelimits. This illustrated no limitations or restrictions during menstruation including everyone, everywhere. Nepal marked the day with a slogan – ‘Enough is enough, let’s break the limit of menstruation’. We are

Nobody Wants You To Know What Is Happening In Ethiopia

Soma Basu My story – Behind Ethiopia’s Prosperity: Systematic Genocide Of An Ancient Tribe – explains the rot in the country and why I was seen as a threat or why any reporter is seen as a threat or why Swedish journalists Johan Persson and Martin Schibbye were imprisoned and tortured for

Development workers behaving badly

Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt Is it really the much-awaited #MeToo or #TimesUp moment of the development industry? Now that the waves of reactions and counter-reactions have subsided, I ask if it is possible to rethink the infamous ‘Oxfam incident’. To put it briefly, the charity’s high-level profession

Rampal coal power plant, Bangladesh, an ethical perspective

Ikhtiar Mohammad While the entire world is moving towards searching for the alternatives, especially renewable energy; Bangladesh India Friendship Power Company is going to construct a coal fired power plant near the Sundarbans Niccolo Machiavelli, a medieval Italian thinker, endorsed the use of imm

India’s Aid Diplomacy

Ankit Malhotra For India which was once the world’s biggest remote guide beneficiary, with some USD 55 billion received by the nation in the vicinity of 1951 and 1992, the change from beneficiary to benefactor comes as the nation tries to reclassify its part in the global world. For a considerable

Aid evaluations: an integration success story

Stephen Howes ODE itself is an integration success story. It wasn’t abolished when transferred from AusAID to DFAT. It wasn’t merged with some other unit. In November 2016, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) released a new aid evaluation policy. In February 2017, the Office of D

Can Economics of Degrowth Eradicate Poverty?

Jason Hickel Degrowth wants to redistribute income in a way that improves social goods, like universal healthcare and education, which are key to reducing poverty and improving people’s lives. The economist Branko Milanovic recently wrote a blog post titled “The illusion of degrowth in a poor an

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