The Challenges of Poverty

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Agenda 2010: The turning point on poverty

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Joining up Africa: regional integration

Regional integration and economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa

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Sri Lanka - humanitarian response

Latest update on DFID's work in Sri Lanka - updated 24 February 2010

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In Chennai recently to attend a conference organised by the Madras School of Economics and the South Asian Network for Development and Environmental Economics, I was honoured to be asked to participate in a panel discussion (Challenges in Mainstreaming Climate Change Adaptation: Research, Training and Policy Possibilities) chaired by Professor MS Swaminathan, the agriculturalist largely credited with ...

Shantanu Mitra

by Shantanu Mitraopens in a new window
Team Leader, Climate Change and Development, DFID India