-Hindustan Times McKinsey report paints a dire climate picture for India which it can’t escape without coordinated global action A new report from the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI), on the likely consequences of global warming for ASIa, has some very dire projections for India—bear in mind, the report projects ASIa to suffer the brunt of the climate change impact. MGI’s may not be the first such projection for India, but at a...
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India’s no to RCEP could still be a no -Biswajit Dhar
-The Hindu The circumstances under which New Delhi had distanced itself from the RCEP negotiations have hardly improved Last week, 15 East ASIan countries agreed to take their economic integration several notches higher by forging the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), the largest free trade agreement (FTA) ever. In 2019, RCEP members accounted for about 30% of world output and population and 28% of world trade. But more importantly, about 44% of...
More »Southeast ASIa and the right to safe water -Sam Geall
-TheThirdPole.net More than 100 million people live without access to safe water in Southeast ASIa, Sam Geall writes about what can be done to improve that and to protect clean water sources On 6 November, the Mekong River Commission acknowledged that climate change had exacerbated this year’s wildly varying water levels on the Mekong – which saw the mighty river reduced to a trickle in parts, even during the rainy season. But...
More »Meet Vinod, the first research scholar from Kerala’s Cholanaikkan tribal community -Saritha S Balan
-TheNewsMinute.com Vinod has recently enrolled for a PhD in Applied Economics at the Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUSAT). Vinod had only one pair of clothes when he joined Class 11. The authorities at the Indira Gandhi Memorial Model Residential School, Nilambur had asked students to come with four pairs of clothes to use at the hostel. Vinod thought of quitting studies. Not that his friends didn’t help by giving him...
More »Shaibal Gupta, social scientist at ASIan Development Research Institute, spoke to Down to Earth on Bihar polls
-Down to Earth Shaibal Gupta, social scientist at ASIan Development Research Institute, spoke to DTE on Bihar polls and its national importance It is D-day after the first election in India amid the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. The process of counting the votes cast in the Bihar Assembly elections started November 10, 2020 morning. But an increased number of electronic voting machines have slowed the process down and only about a...
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