Economic development is both a policy objective and a means to achieving other policy goals, such as full employment, poverty alleviation, egalitarianism, and social progress. One way to grasp the ...

1. For anyone not familiar with international media development, how can you describe what IPDC does? As an intergovernmental initiative, IPDC has done a lot to shape the very meaning of “media ...

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Varanasi: President Pranab Mukherjee Saturday said there should be clarity on the meaning of development and asked social scientists to identify how growth can be achieved without destruction of ...

Bianca Jagger, founder and chair of the Bianca Jagger Human Rights Foundation, was in India to visit the Niyamgiri Hills in Orissa where the local population is opposed to the setting up of a bauxite ...

For the next installment of the informal TechCrunch book club, we are reading the fourth story in Ted Chiang’s Exhalation. The goal of this book club is to expand our minds to new worlds, ideas, and ...

As we approach the Rio Earth Summit, concerns grow about urban centers' environmental impact and our collective carbon footprint. In the run-up to next month's Rio Earth Summit, we're going to see a ...

Despite the postwar cycle of accumulation, many within the Italian left continued to see the words ‘capitalism’ and ‘development’ as polar opposites. Their view, expressed in the impeccably orthodox ...