This edition of the Macro Poverty Outlooks periodical contains country-by-country forecasts and overviews for GDP, fiscal, debt and poverty indicators for the developing countries of the South Asia region.
Shifting cultivation is commonly perceived as a primitive agricultural practice, economically unviable and a cause of tropical deforestation and environmental degradation. Despite growing scientific evidence
<p>Growth in the region is expected to slow sharply to 2.2% in 2020 under the effects of the current health emergency and then rebound to 6.2% in 2021. Excluding Asia’s high-income newly industrialized
Developing countries must negotiate strongly in the environment summit in Paris for "fairness and equity" to enable them to meet their developmental needs, Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) chief
Water: Depleting water sources and absence of concrete solution in most gewogs of Trashigang has left farmers worried even as the dzongkhag administration is surveying the situation. Although the gewogs
Forest fire: Thimphu city was briefly under a thick blanket of smoke yesterday when a forest fire that started opposite Bap lhakhang raged on for hours destroying more than 100 acres of blue pine forest.
President Mahinda Rajapaksa instructed the authorities to provide immediate relief in a systematic and organised manner to the people in areas affected by inclement weather. The President personally looked
Badulla: At least three persons were killed and several others have gone missing due to a landslide in the Rilpola area in Badulla today, police said. Three bodies have been recovered so far after a landslide
Islamabad—In its ongoing anti-encroachment campaign, the District Administration has cleared land of National Highway Authority (NHA) from encroachers in Rawat area of the Federal Capital. According to
Islamabad—On the direction of Chairman CDA, Maroof Afzal, the Environment Wing of the authority has imposed more than Rs.200,000 fine on people involved in illegal tree cutting in the capital during the
