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it is time we looked seriously at the issue of providing additional, concessional and debt-free finance to meet the mitigation and adaptation needs of the countries of the Global South. But it is equally important that climate financing must not take away the support required for
development in these countries, from education, healthcare, energy, and other infrastructure to poverty reduction programmes. There are huge opportunities for co-benefits, where development support will also help build a greener and more sustainable present for millions. But this requires that countries develop national action plans, which are then supported.
Beyond Climate Finance: Climate ambition in the Global South requires financial system reforms
Avantika Goswami; Ananya Anoop Rao
One thing nobody wants is a static relationship, something that is unalterable, something that is fixed for all times. Stability is wanted, but not at the cost of change when change is imperative. The second thing nobody wants is mere adjustment. Adjustment is wanted, but not at the sacrifice of social justice.
Annihilation of Caste
B.R. Ambedkar
Proponents of local or participatory forms of development—impelled by their rejection of modernity, and development itself—are, however, unable to account for the Indian masses’ desire for modernity. The subaltern desire for particular infrastructures, codes, and technologies of modernity provides them with an emancipatory route out of their oppression. This desire for modernity and its assemblages can be witnessed variously in: learning the English language; connecting to the digital; accessing ‘modern’ education and healthcare; belief in rationality, logic and reason as against caste- based belief and superstition, etc. Leading Dalit scholars, for example, have noted that modernity promised a breakaway from the ‘language of obligation’ under the Hindu feudal order, but also the pursuit of inclusion based on ‘modernist credentials (skills, abilities and excellence)’.
Philanthropy and the Development of Modern India
Arun Kumar
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