Climate policies as catalyst for green FDI
This paper assesses the role of climate policies as a catalyst of low carbon technologies deployment through foreign direct investment (FDI). Leveraging detailed cross-border project-level information,
Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)
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Odisha's mega Posco dreams all but over
Bhubaneswar: In June 2005 when the Naveen Patnaik government signed an MoU with the South Korean steel behemoth, Posco, for a 12-mtpa mega steel plant in the state, the public euphoria reached its peak.
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End of the road for Rs 50,000 crore Posco plant?
Suspense over the fate of the Rs 50,000-crore Posco steel project in Odisha has deepened with the South Korean giant showing disinterest in pursuing it because of the hurdles it continues to face on grounds
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Africa's blue economy: a policy handbook
Africa’s “Blue word” is made of vast lakes and rivers and an extensive ocean resource base. The Blue Economy can play a major role in Africa’s structural transformation, sustainable economic progress,
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Stitches to riches?: apparel employment, trade, and economic development in South Asia
South Asia is in the midst of a demographic transition. For the next three decades, the growth of the region’s working age population will far outpace the growth of dependents. Close to one million individuals
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Budget 2016: Suit gets boot, govt sings 'Jai Kisan'
It was late CPI member A B Bardhan who had disdainfully dismissed the panic in the stock markets after the shock defeat of the BJP-led government in 2004, saying he did not give two hoots to what happened
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100 per cent FDI in food marketing to boost small players
The domestic food processing industry may get a boost with the Budget providing for 100% FDI via the Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) route in marketing of food products manufactured in the country.
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Economic Survey 2016: India a haven of stability amidst gloomy global economic landscape
NEW DELHI: Presenting an optimistic picture of Indian economy, Chief Economic Adviser Arvind Subramanian's Economic Survey 2015-16 said that amidst the gloomy landscape of unusual volatility in the international
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Sri Lanka- Ending poverty and promoting shared prosperity: a systematic country diagnostic
Sri Lanka has made encouraging progress in reducing poverty to below 7 percent of the population, but pockets of severe poverty remain and future prosperity will depend on addressing chronic revenue shortfalls
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Is India's renewable energy sector ready to embark on Yieldco model?
A Yieldco is a company created to manage operational capacity through investment by various entities As India’s renewable energy sector gets on to massive capacity addition, a Yieldco model of companies
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Foreign investment, law and sustainable development: a handbook on agriculture and extractive industries
As foreign investments in agriculture and extractive industries increase pressures on land and natural resources, the effective use of legal tools, by government and advocates alike, has become an important