The Research Paper "The Multilateral Trade Regime seen through a Global Public Goods Lens: New Insights on Old Problems" is prepared on reflections generated while a debate was held by gpgNet during July 2003. The conference was sponsored by UNDP, and global participants has given their wide...

Rapid globalisation (economically, financially, politically, socially and physically) is the order of the day. Limited resources and unlimited claimants. Limited resources and many to decide who will use resources? when? and how? Users scattered all over the world. They need to learn the best...

The Society for Research and Initiatives for Sustainable Technologies and Institute (SRISTI), based in Ahmedabad, India, is a non-governmental organisation setup to strengthen the creativity of grassroots inventors, innovators and ecopreneurs engaged in conserving biodiversity and developing...

Urban centers are drivers of economic growth. Normal principles of economics apply here and due to economies of scale, because of larger population, synergies take place. In hunger of self-interest, and if system fails to optimize benefits vis-à-vis cost, the cities become hell rather than...

Land, climate & human are the major critical actors of world history & development. “Buy land, they're not making it anymore", said Mark Twain. Land is a precious resource, the bedstead in which seeds of development are sown. Every activity on the earth requires land as founding support. This...

The globalization brought series of global indices developed based on critical indicators. There is no central data base to retrieve all global indices, but some research institutes are a good source to get information on this. Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation,...

To eradicate extreme poverty requires participation of people. Identifying poor population and making them employable is essential to eradicate poverty. Economic growth is important to eradicate poverty; equitable wealth distribution is sine-qua-non to sustainable development. This chapter...

The current age changes in business and industry are at a pace which is unimaginable and unprecedented. The changes are fast. The changes in business environment happening in a year now were not even seen a century ago. Technological invasion, globalization, economic upliftment and social...

Good Corporate Governance ensures better corporate performance, relationship with stakeholders, where the proper practice of Accounting Standards assumes immense importance at micro level, as effective disclosure leads to shareholders' wealth maximisation and at macro level, they are essential...