Full Coverage: Economy

28.12.2006 In October 2006, eight years after India and Pakistan crossed the nuclear threshold, the world witnessed yet another breakout, when North Korea exploded an atomic bomb and demanded that it be recognised as a nuclear weapons-state. Talks aimed at persuading Pyongyang to give up its nuclear weapons, in return for security guarantees and economic assistance, collapsed last week.

28.12.2006 JabalaÂ’s Safe Migration Project gets panchayats in West Bengal to keep track of women who migrate into urban areas, providing a safety net for women who get trapped into sex work or slave labour.

21.12.2006 SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 21 (OneWorld) - The richest 2 percent of adults in the world own more than half the world's wealth, according to a new study released by the Helsinki-based World Institute for Development Economics Research of the United Nations University.

21.12.2006 Government Defence Spokesman Keheliya Rambukwella yesterday challenged the remark by UN Special Rapporteur on Child Soldiers Alan Rock that he would come up with evidence in two months to prove the Security Forces were conniving in child abductions, saying that the LTTE's self admission in the abduction of 24 OL students clearly showed who the perpetrators were.

20.12.2006 The new modernised and enlarged Central European Free Trade Agreement (CEFTA) was signed today at the South East European summit of Prime Ministers in Bucharest. Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General in Kosovo (SRSG) Joachim Rucker, together with Kosovo Minister for Trade and Industry Bujar Dugolli and Deputy Head of UNMIK Pillar IV Andreas Wittkowsky, participated in the signing ceremony on behalf of Kosovo.

20.12.2006 Anti dumping is not just a protectionist instrument but also an important tool to safeguard domestic industries from cheap imports especially in the wake of reduced tariffs and quota elimination, said Prof. B. S. Chimni, eminent legal expert and former Vice Chancellor of National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata.

20.12.2006 Endorsing Prof StiglitzÂ’s view that neither the developed economies nor the developing world can afford to ignore or reject globalisation, Dr. Manmohan Singh said: "We have to learn to deal with (globalisation), cope with and manage it.

19.12.2006 Developing countries have successfully resisted pressures to “move first” to end the current stalemate in the Doha Development Round of WTO negotiations. This is a sign of “growing maturity” and is of critical importance as this may well be the “last opportunity” to put the development dimension at the centre stage of WTO negotiations, opined Gopal K Pillai, Commerce Secretary, Government of India and the country’s chief negotiator at the WTO here today.

18.12.2006 December 10, 2006: Today the world celebrates the 58th anniversary of the UN Charter of Human Rights as the International Human Rights Day, but the people of Singur or Narmada or Raigad (Maharashtra), Dadri-Bajada (UP) cannot partake in these celebrations.

15.12.2006 A World Bank report - Global Economic Prospects 2007: Managing the Next Wave of Globalization - released on Friday in Indian capital New Delhi warns that globalization could spur faster growth in developing countries but could be accompanied by growing income inequality and potentially severe environmental pressures.

15.12.2006 New law guaranteeing rural employment may be changing centuries-old power relations in India's villages. Dirt-poor villagers, denied work or cheated, have dared defy local authorities and testify against them in a people's court attended by top government officials.

15.12.2006 The Stockholm Challenge GKP Awards 2007 is a new prize, launched by Global Knowledge Partnership (GKP) and the Stockholm Challenge. It is designed as an integral part of the Stockholm Challenge 2008 and will open in four of the ordinary six ICT4D categories: Culture, Economic Development, Education and Public Administration. The Stockholm Challenge GKP Awards 2007 opens on 1 January 2007 and will be accessible both from the Stockholm Challenge website and from the GKP portal.

14.12.2006 Perhaps more than any other purely economic issue, inflation has always been a pressing socio-political concern in India. That is because the vast majority of our working people receive incomes that are not indexed to prices, and are therefore directly and adversely affected especially by the rise in prices of necessities.

13.12.2006 from Oil Change blog:
A carbon rationing scheme could come into operation within five years. But will it actually change peoplesÂ’ behaviour?

12.12.2006 Trade losses to software manufacturers due to piracy are as high as $125 billion. We need to interrogate why piracy of software, books, music etc exists as a market phenomenon. Could it be an organic market reaction to the exclusion of consumers by copyright industries? Lawrence Liang and Achal Prabhala take an indepth look into the prevailing market trends and consumer behaviour.

05.12.2006 Kompania publike, “Posta dhe Telekomi i Kosovës”, e cila që disa vjet me radhë mban monopolin në tregun e telefonisë mobile në Kosovë - nëpërmjet operatorit të saj Vala 900 - ka shfaqur interesimin e saj për të marrë pjesë në tenderin për operatorin e dytë të telefonisë mobile.

05.12.2006 Pas dhënies së linjave kreditore për bankat komerciale në Kosovë, Banka Evropiane për Rindërtim dhe Zhvillim, i ka ndarë 3 milionë euro kredi OJQ-së, Programi për Ndërmarrjet në Kosovë (KEP), duke iu mundësuar kështu ndërmarrësve kosovarë, më shumë qasje në shërbimet financiare për të krijuar biznese të reja, apo të bëjnë zgjerimin e bizneseve ekzistuese.

04.12.2006 Author of the Indian microfinance success story Vikram Akula, founder of SKS Microfinance Pvt Ltd, believes that even though microfinance is not an answer to the agriculture crisis in Vidarbha, it can supplement incomes for farm families. After 150 branches all over the country, he moved into Vidarbha recently. His three branches have 1,000 borrowers in 21 villages.

04.12.2006 Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Deputy Chairman the Planning Commission, Government of India, speaks with Shekhar Gupta, Editor-in-Chief of Indian Express on performance of present government plan.

01.12.2006 This election season many voters are asking a critical question: What is the appropriate role for the United States in world affairs? By punishing those legislators who voted for war in Iraq, many citizens are rejecting the idea of the United States as a military overlord, asserting that a different set of values should guide our foreign policy.