Making The World A Better Place: Restitution And Restoration
The longer an unprecedented global assault on the causes of GHG emissions is delayed, the less likely the planet will be habitable in ways we recognise.
Barbara Harriss-White drove from Cambridge to India in 1969 to climb in the Kishtwar Himal, and has been teaching and writing about India and researching its informal economy and rural development through fieldwork ever since. She is Emeritus Professor of Development Studies at Oxford University and a Visiting Professor at JNU. Her latest books include Dalits and Adivasis in India’s Business Economy (Three Essays); Middle India and Urban-Rural Development (Springer); Indian Capitalism in Development (Routledge) ; and Mapping India’s Capitalism: Old and New Regions (Palgrave).
The longer an unprecedented global assault on the causes of GHG emissions is delayed, the less likely the planet will be habitable in ways we recognise.
The IPCC’s 2023 summary report reveals collective non-responsibility for depoliticised policy which has revolutionary real-world implications.
The Modi government’s policies – demonetisation, GST & now the lockdown –have broken the backbone of the Indian economy.
“The more I pursued the question of why Assange has so little public support, the more disturbing the story became.”
Urban waste is one of the most pressing problems in India. It needs urgent and immediate attention from policymakers.
Emiritus Professor at Oxford University presents an in-depth analysis of demonetisation and explains why it is flawed.
