Full coverage: Development

26.12.2006 Universalisation of Elementary Education is a national goal for which Distance Education Programme is a national resource and major support for distance learning programme.

26.12.2006 a growing number of women, who have formed self help groups and started making candles, papads and pickles, are now making forays into ambitious new projects in an effort to cement a new future.

26.12.2006 A dozen village information centres functioning in the tsunami-hit coastal villages of Tamil Nadu get Internet connectivity. This facility would provides the fishermen have access to video conferencing, weather reports, local market network on fishing trade in these villages.

26.12.2006 For activist Nirmala Purandare, training barefoot teachers in Maharashtra does not stop at education. It’s an attempt to usher in a social revolution

26.12.2006 Global poverty estimates report the number of people living on less than $1 or $2 a day. But purchasing power (dis)parities suggest that it could be more accurate to say that the poor in countries like India are living on less than $0.20 or $0.40 a day, says Aseem Shrivastava

26.12.2006 People in South Asia overwhelmingly support democracy, except in Pakistan, where about half the respondents in a survey said that democratic or non-democratic forms of government made no difference to them.

22.12.2006 Vajaa vuosi sitten viisi pääasiassa maya-intiaanien asuttamaa kylää sai aurinkosähkön Guatemalan itäosassa. Hanke on yksi Suomen ja Keski-Amerikan energia- ja ympäristökumppanuusohjelman kohteista. Kumppanuusohjelma käynnistyi vuonna 2002 YK:n kestävän kehityksen huippukokouksessa. Ohjelmassa ovat mukana seitsemän Keski-Amerikan maata ja Suomi.

22.12.2006 Maailman köyhien ruokaturva on heikkenemässä, koska viljasta on alettu tehdä polttoainetta autoihin. Jos energiantuotanto nousee politiikan johtotähdeksi, köyhien nälkä voi yltyä esimerkiksi Afrikassa. Miten lisääntyvä kiinnostus biopolttoaineiden tuotantoon vaikuttaa ruokaturvaan? Tarjolla on ainakin kaksi vaihtoehtoista väittämää.

22.12.2006 A professor of philosophy and law at the University of Chicago, Martha Nussbaum has made a significant contribution in promoting the capabilities approach to development, which regards central human capabilities (such as the ability to live a full life, engage in recreational activities and participate in politics) as the framework for development.

21.12.2006 "Kun investoidaan vammaiseen ihmiseen ja hänen koulutukseensa, luodaan pääomaa, jota ei hevin varasteta," suomalaisen vammaistyön konkari Ari Suutarla sanoo. Maailman väestöstä kymmenisen prosenttia on vammaisia. Näistä 600 miljoonasta ihmisestä kaksi kolmasosaa asuu kehitysmaissa, ja heistä yli puolet (260 miljoonaa) selviytyy alle dollarilla päivässä.

21.12.2006 Aasian talouskasvu lisää moottoriliikennettä, mikä puolestaan nostaa kasvihuonepäästöjen määrää ja heikentää ilmanlaatua, todetaan Aasian kehityspankin tutkimuksissa. Tähän päivään asti polkupyörä on ollut Aasiassa huomattavasti yleisempi näky kuin auto. Talouskasvun myötä tilanne on nopeasti muuttumassa.

21.12.2006 Dalit and Minorities International Conference on "Power to the Powerless" in the Indian Socio- economic and political scenario to be held on December 27th and 28th, 2006 at G.M.C. Bal Yogi Auditorium, Parliament Library Building, New Delhi.

21.12.2006 Nobel laureate Amartya Sen on Wednesday said market economy was here to stay but could not be relied upon for developmental tasks. "Land reforms will help reduce distress migration"

21.12.2006 Government Defence Spokesman Keheliya Rambukwella yesterday challenged the remark by UN Special Rapporteur on Child Soldiers Alan Rock that he would come up with evidence in two months to prove the Security Forces were conniving in child abductions, saying that the LTTE's self admission in the abduction of 24 OL students clearly showed who the perpetrators were.

21.12.2006 A resolution was adopted today by the Committee on Development of the European Parliament urging the Government of India to stop the violence against Dalits (formerly called ‘Untouchables’) and the widespread practices of untouchability.

20.12.2006 Anti dumping is not just a protectionist instrument but also an important tool to safeguard domestic industries from cheap imports especially in the wake of reduced tariffs and quota elimination, said Prof. B. S. Chimni, eminent legal expert and former Vice Chancellor of National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata.

20.12.2006 The richest 2% of adults in the world own more than half of global household wealth according to a path-breaking study by the World Institute for Development Economics Research of the United Nations University (UNU-WIDER).

20.12.2006 Nobel Laureate Professor Amartya Sen on Tuesday expressed regret that children have not gained from India’s economic growth and termed the high incidence of female feticide as a “national calamity”.

20.12.2006 Endorsing Prof Stiglitz’s view that neither the developed economies nor the developing world can afford to ignore or reject globalisation, Dr. Manmohan Singh said: "We have to learn to deal with (globalisation), cope with and manage it.

20.12.2006 Employment of children is a criminal offence under Section 14 of the Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act 1986. The employer can be jailed for not less than 3 months but which may extend to one year or with fine which shall not be less than Rupees ten thousand but which may extend to Rupees Twenty thousand or both