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Celebrating WSF 2004
When 80,000 people talk it makes noise. So it wasn t unusual for the fourth World Social Forum WSF in Mumbai to be snidely called a huge talking fair . There was also talk about WSF s need to introspect on its ability to impact globally. A good point.
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Parked at a panacea
Are isolated refuges the only way to protect biodiversity?
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Out of joint
The global cycles of nitrogen and phosphorous
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When the G 20 holds
World trade negotiations are bound to be more multilateral
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A second term for Bush
It shows that the environment is no more an issue for electorates in the North
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Play by the rules
Is the sponge iron industry listening?
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Soft target
PDS poor politic
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Biotechnology for poor farmers
It s a myth
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Multiculturalism a vague concept for West
holocaust-denial laws are the ultimate bunkum. Just think about it. The state of Israel has used the history of the Nazis to perpetrate untold miseries on the Arab world. This is not a rant. Think
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The need for the public sector
For services the marginalised need
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India's economic growth is shortsighted
with the Indian economy growing at a breathtaking pace, the urban Indian consumer has never had it so good. There are more cars, more ipods, more mobile phones than what anybody could have imagined
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The unipolar world goes green
An excerpt from State of the World 1992
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Next time a report on people, please!
BY coincidence, I happened to read two recent reports together. They were UNFPA's State of the World Population 1992 and Towards a Green World by Anil Agarwal and Sunita Narain. Both are lucidly
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Alternative approaches to poverty alleviation
THIS BOOK focusses on poor women of the Third World and recommends a particular approach for poverty alleviation. After a brief, but commonplace critique of current strategies, including Arthur
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Liberalisation viewed through worker's eyes
THIS IS a worthy compilation of stories of resistance by workers to the assault on them, legitimised now by the New Economic Policy. More specifically, it tells the story of the courageous fight
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The saga of the big brother in a little village
Anna in Marathi means brother and Kishan Baburao Hazare is lovingly known as Anna Hazare in Ralegan Siddhi, the village in Maharashtra's Ahmednagar district that he helped transform from poverty to
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Time to look at biofertilisers
LARGE-SCALE manufacture, transportation and application of chemical fertilisers are energy-intensive processes, which is why the hike in oil prices has made them more expensive. Moreover, the vast
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From a woman's point of view
THIS RESOURCE guide to environmental action by women's groups and communities in the Asian Pacific region offers an excellent introduction to the issues involved, addressing all readers and not just
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New aspects to reporting Third World women
THE WOMEN'S Feature Service (WFS) is a news service that deals not just with equal rights for women, but with "development from a progressive, women's, or gender, perspective." It has transcended the