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Regards croisés sur l’internet

Par Henri Desbois, Clarisse Herrenschmidt, Paul Mathias, Philippe Rygiel

Coordination éditoriale de Éric Guichard , Editions Presses de l’enssib, janvier 2012, 28,00 €
L’arrivée de l’internet fait figure de révolution : intellectuelle, technologique, idéologique, sociologique. Cet ouvrage a pour ambition de poser quelques jalons théoriques et historiques : (…)

Peuple et démocratie

Par Catherine Colliot-Thélène

, par La Vie des Idées

Editions PUF, 2011, 256 pages, 27 euros.
La démocratie n’est pas le gouvernement du peuple par le peuple, mais un processus permanent de conquête de nouveaux droits. C’est ce que l’ouvrage de C. Colliot-Thélène souligne, montrant la tension qui traverse l’histoire de la démocratie, entre (…)

Rio + 20 face à l’ Économie Verte

Par Leonardo Trindade

, par Na Beirada

Cet article a initialement été publié en portugais, et il a été traduit par Jean-Luc Pelletier, traducteur bénévole pour rinoceros.
Sans vouloir être exagérément alarmiste, je pense réellement que la crise que nous vivons est non seulement environnementale, mais aussi économique, politique, (…)

No lessons being learnt from underperforming hydropower projects

By Himanshu Thakkar and Bipib Chaturvedi

, by Infochange

Only four of the 12 hydropower projects in the Northeast generate at their projected 90% dependability or higher. The rest are underperforming miserably. Regardless, several big projects are under construction in the Northeast. Why don’t the stakeholders analyse the performance and impact of (…)

Burma: Halt in hostilities?

By Larry Jagan

, by Himal Southasian

Burma edges towards peace.
Hopes of an end to the world’s longest-running insurgency were raised in recent days, as several ethnic rebel groups entered into ceasefire agreements with the Burmese government. The most important of these took place on 12 January, when the Karen National Union (…)

India Human Development Report 2011: Towards Social Inclusion

By Planning Commission, OUP Oxford, New Delhi, 568 pages, 2011

Questioning whether certain sections of Indian society suffer from multiple deprivations, the National Human Development Report 2011 evaluates whether the social indicators of the excluded groups are converging or diverging with the rest of the population.
The Report addresses three critical (…)

India tells Britain: We don’t want your aid

By Andrew Gilligan

, by The Telegraph

India’s Finance Minister has said that his country “does not require” British aid, describing it as “peanuts”.
Pranab Mukherjee and other Indian ministers tried to terminate Britain’s aid to their booming country last year - but relented after the British begged them to keep taking the money, (…)

Retreat on retail

By C.P. Chandrasekhar

, by Frontline

Resistance by a combined opposition thwarts the Union Cabinet’s move to allow foreign investors 51 per cent equity in multi-brand retail.
IT was an avoidable diversion. While Parliament was in session, the Union Cabinet met to approve hitherto prohibited foreign direct investment (FDI) in (…)

Polio: A war almost won

By R. Ramachandran

, by Frontline

India seems to have arrived at the threshold of polio eradication, but should it lower its guard?
ON January 13, India achieved what had only two years ago seemed impossible in the immediate term. The country, which, given the epidemiological data in the new millennium, had come to be regarded (…)

Building the Transit Metropolis

By Madhav Pai

, by India together

As the most significant region yet to be urbanised, India presents a unique opportunity for capturing impacts of urbanisation on the spatial dimension, writes Madhav Pai.
India will be the one of the last major countries in the world to experience the urbanization of its population. In 2001, (…)

Climate Change: Uncertain stand

By R. Ramachandran

, by Frontline

India fails to extract emission cut commitments from Annex I countries in return for agreeing to the Durban Mandate at the climate talks.
INDIAN negotiators perhaps lost the wood for the trees at the two-week-long 17th Conference of the Parties (COP17) to the United Nations Framework (…)

From food security to food justice

By Ananya Mukherjee

, by The Hindu

A quarter of a million women in Kerala are showing us how to earn livelihoods with dignity.
If the malnourished in India formed a country, it would be the world’s fifth largest — almost the size of Indonesia. According to Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), 237.7 million Indians are (…)

Jarawas: to protect or not

By Kumar Sambhav Shrivastava

, by Down to earth

Government’s expert panel against bringing the tribe into the mainstream
A RECENTLY released video showing Jarawa women dancing in front of tourists has triggered a debate on whether the ancient tribe of Andaman and Nicobar Islands should be brought into the mainstream. In this context, an (…)

Rio+20 : le futur que nous ne voulons pas

, par HAERINGER Nicolas

Les premières négociations sur le projet d’accord qui sera adopté à Rio, lors de la Conférence des Nations Unies sur le développement durable (sommet Rio+20) ont commencé la semaine passée. Les militants altermondialistes et écologistes se sont de leur côté retrouvés à Porto Alegre (Brésil), (…)

Débat ouvert sur l’exception de la diversité de l’Afrique

Par Amady Aly Dieng

, par Pambazuka

Sarkozy l’a dit dans son Discours de Dakar et il n’est pas seul à considérer l’Afrique comme un continent existant en dehors de l’Histoire. Huntington, aussi, n’est pas loin de le penser. On note ainsi un travestissement de l’histoire de l’Afrique noire par rapport aux évolutions du monde, comme (…)

Feminist economics demands a new development paradigm

, by Social Watch

Gender equity is a key element of any genuine program towards sustainable development. Analysis included on the Social Watch Report 2012 and the national contributions to the study prove, once again, the stagnation of the fight against these disparities, with disastrous consequences on the (…)

Les droits fonciers et la ruée sur les terres

Ward Par Anseeuw, Liz Alden Wily, Lorenzo Cotula, et Michael Taylor

, par International Land Coalition (ILC)

Conclusions du projet de recherche sur les pressions commerciales sur les terres dans le monde
Ce rapport, réalisé par des expert fonciers renommés, est le résultat d’un projet de recherche de trois ans qui a rassemblé quarante membres et partenaires de l’ILC pour examiner les (…)

The truth about solar mission

By Chandra Bhushan and Jonas Hamberg

, by Down to earth

For the Government of India the first phase of the national solar mission has been a grand success. It not only managed to attract industry to invest in the generation of an energy considered costly, but also dramatically drove down the cost of producing this energy. In its celebration, little (…)

Liberalización económica y empleo

Por Julio Gambina, Germán Pinazo, Víctor Mendibil

, por Observatorio de Multinacionales en América Latina (OMAL)

El artículo de marras comienza planteando una pregunta típica para este tipo de análisis: ¿el comercio internacional acaba con los empleos o los genera? Uno estaría tentado a responder una obviedad: depende. Depende de en qué contexto histórico nos situemos; de qué tipo de países estemos (…)