RIO DE JANEIRO: Making a strong pitch for removing poverty in India and reminding the developed world of its commitment to sustainable development, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday called for setting up a global system that allows each country to develop according to its own priorities. "For developing countries, inclusive Growth and a rapid increase in per capita income levels are development imperatives," the Prime Minister said in his...
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Why you should expect a lot from Rio+20-Leisa Perch
-The Economic Times The largest United Nations conference in history is happening now in Brazil. Rio+20, the UN Conference on Sustainable Development, is assembling over 50,000 people and more than 130 heads of state and government. Beyond the politicalcommitments world leaders are promising to make by the end of the summit, how can Rio+20 help us promote actual changes in policymaking towards socio-environmental synergies? The two main themes of Rio+20 - the...
More »Invisible health risk that stalks India’s youth-Vikram Patel
-The Hindu A Lancet study reports that suicide is the second highest cause of death among the young The medical journal, The Lancet has published a study today which should bring attention to a little known human tragedy which is being played out across our country. The research is based on the first national survey of the causes of death, conducted in 2001-03, by the Registrar General of India. Many people die...
More »Rio+20 summit must move world beyond 'grow now, clean up later'-Connie Hedegaard
-The Guardian The Earth summit has to ensure sustainability is at the heart of Growth models – the swelling global population depends on it Growth in itself is neither our enemy nor our problem. But what kind of economic Growth do we need? And do we want Growth at any cost? A child born today is one of seven billion people on Earth, and during its lifetime will see the world's population grow...
More »Census rewriting SC, ST narrative-Anil Padmanabhan & Remya Nair
-Live Mint Latest houselisting data demonstrates a visible Growth in the material well-being of the two groups Indians, all of them, across class and caste, traded up over the past decade, a period of rapid and record economic Growth—that’s the counter-intuitive message in the latest update to Census 2011. According to the so-called houselisting data released by the census, scheduled castes (SCs) and scheduled tribes (STs) have, like the rest of the country,...
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