Full coverage: Development

30.06.2006 Profesor Enver Hasani është zgjedhur dje me shumicë votash rektor i Universitetit të Prishtinës. Ai mori 6 vota, përderisa kundërkandidati e tij, Muhamet Mustafa mori 2 vota, 1 votë u shpallë e pavlefshme, Sali Gashi nuk mori asnjë votë dhe Ramadan Zejnullahu u tërhoq nga gara për rektor para se të fillonte votimi.

28.06.2006 Oil wars, water wars, land wars, atmospheric wars: this is the real face of economic globalisation, whose appetite for resources is exceeding the limits of sustainability and justice, writes Vandana Shiva, an author and international campaigner for women and the environment.

28.06.2006 The India-Pakistan border is increasingly being used for smuggling narcotics into India, a senior United Nations official said.Addressing a press conference to mark the release of the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) 2006 World Drug Report here, Gary Lewis, UNODC Representative for South Asia, said increased trans-border civilian movement could be one of the reasons.

27.06.2006 Upgrading skills did not result in solving the educated unemployment problem in India and Sri Lanka. South Asian economies or particularly those sectors of economies that employ educated people, did not expand much. There was also a mismatch between the qualities of labour force demanded by the market and those that were supplied by the systems of education and training.

27.06.2006 Arambh has taken up the challenge of getting Bhopal’s slum children to return to school. Scores of children attend its centres to study and re-enter the education system, at timings that best suit them, especially if they are working

27.06.2006 Appointment of good teachers is the key to success of any institution, and only the best should be appointed, the Governor, Surjit Singh Barnala, has said. He also said that good teachers are the key to well-educated students. To achieve better education, we have to begin with teachers.

27.06.2006 "Un buco nero inaccettabile": così il sottosegretario agli Esteri Famiano Crucianelli riferendosi a un futuro che continuasse a escludere i Balcani dall'Unione Europea. "Nel loro insieme - ha aggiunto - i Balcani devono poter entrare in Europa se davvero vogliamo puntare alla pace, allo sviluppo, alla legalità di quella che è una zona cruciale per il futuro dell'intero continente". Il sottosegretario agli Affari Esteri del governo Prodi è intervenuto ieri mattina a Firenze in apertura del seminario finale di "Seenet", programma di cooperazione decentrata tra i più innovativi che ha collegato la Toscana con il sud est europeo. Promosso dalla Regione Toscana, dalle Ong Ucodep e Cospe con il sostegno della direzione generale del Ministero Affari Esteri italiano. In tre anni, Seenet, ha fatto nascere una rete fra 30 soggetti toscani (enti locali, aziende pubbliche, organismi privati) e 21 enti locali di cinque paesi del sud est europeo (Albania, Bosnia Erzegovina, Croazia, Macedonia, Serbia) con quattro milioni di euro di finanziamento e 27 progetti realizzati.

26.06.2006 Building on recent strong growth, countries in South Asia can dramatically reduce poverty by embracing policies aimed at increasing investment and productivity, and improving the quality of labor, while addressing pervasive income inequalities and poor service delivery, according to Economic Growth in South Asia, a World Bank report.

26.06.2006 UNESCO has offered to support the IT dissemination project of the State, Akshaya, in view of its potential to facilitate women's empowerment. The contents proposed to be developed relate to legal guidance, career guidance, Government schemes, health and welfare of mothers and children. Select Akshaya centres will receive aid, which includes research and training.

26.06.2006 Earlier, there were no 'outside' fertilisers or seeds. There were no (plant) diseases and we were happy", recalls 83-year-old Chandrappa, farming for the last 60 years on his family's five acres in the black cotton-soil heartland of this southern Indian State.

23.06.2006 The achievement of the MDGs, in the case of Nicaragua - as in the case of many developing countries - is severely constrained by the relationship of the country with the IMF. It is estimated that under current IMF conditionalities only half of the MDG targets will be met in Nicaragua.

23.06.2006 International organisations expect India to play a lead role in the global control of small arms because the country has been a major victim of the illegal trade in foreign-made sophisticated arms. They want that India should be able to push for a consensus at a UN conference on small arms that begins on June 26.

23.06.2006 une 23, 2006 Thousands of villagers, panchayat representatives and women from marginalised communities. flagged off rozgar adhikar yatra from Palia in Lakhimpur Kheri district in terai region of Uttar Pradesh. presence of Hamida Bano president of Rashtriya Mahilla Evam Yuva Uthan Samiti flagged off the yatra.

23.06.2006 A much-touted "development package" offered recently to the world's least developed countries is "rife with tricks" and could be far more limited than originally publicised because the United States maintains the right to deny the promised duty-free access to some of those countries' most important exports, a new study says.

23.06.2006 Worldwide more than 211 million children aged 5 to 14 are passing through different forms of child labor. Three million Nepali children are working under extreme hardship. Laws were made, but have been left unenforced.

23.06.2006 A balance between the demands brought on by Lahore's development imperatives and the right of its residents to live in environment-friendly surroundings needs to be struck. At the very least, Environmental Impact Assessments should be conducted by the government and made public.

22.06.2006 The Indian government has increased its allocation of funds to states and union territories for the school midday meals scheme. The increased outlay of 50 paise per child per school day is meant to cover the cost of cooking the meals.

22.06.2006 Keeping a promise made at the United Nations six years ago to dramatically improve the lives of at least 100 million poor city dwellers by the year 2020 will be a major focus of the World Urban Forum.

22.06.2006 The Directorate of Literacy and Continuing Education of Rajasthan has been awarded the UNESCO's Confucius Prize for excellence in initiatives for marginalised adolescents in rural areas.

21.06.2006 The five 2006 UNESCO Literacy prizes go to literacy projects in Cuba, India, Morocco, Pakistan and Turkey. A project in China has also received an Honourable Mention.The winners have made particularly effective contributions to the fight against illiteracy, one of UNESCO’s priorities.