September 2, 2014
Emerging economic powers such as China and India have been negotiating for a greater share of voting powers in multilateral development banks including the World Bank, International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Asian Development Bank (ADB).… Read More
September 2, 2014
Can business and society work together to foster each other’s prosperity? Those who believe so tend to espouse corporate social responsibility (CSR). … Read More
September 2014
Special Issue on Integrated Water Resources Management… Read More
August 30, 2014
More than two centuries ago, Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote in his immortal poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner: “Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.”… Read More
August 26, 2014
But Asia can manage calamity better with a new mindset and policy innovation.… Read More
By Cecilia Tortajada and Yugal Kishore Joshi, 2014. Article published in Hydrological Sciences Journal, Volume 59, Issue 9, pages 1763-1774.… Read More
August 18, 2014
Because of droughts, China is facing a conundrum of tradeoffs between policy objectives such as providing people with food grains at affordable prices and food sufficiency.… Read More
August 15, 2014
In South Asia, for example, there is no clean water that can be drunk directly from taps.… Read More
August 15, 2014
In a country where 35 to 40 per cent of food is not consumed, the government urgently needs to reduce wastage to an acceptable level.… Read More
August 8, 2014
Given that India is already struggling to feed its population, its current food crisis could worsen significantly in the coming decades.… Read More