Full coverage: Development

27.05.2006 Los gobiernos de Bolivia, Cuba y Venezuela celebrarán hoy en la localidad de Sinahota, en la región central del país, una reunión de trascendencia para el avance y la consolidación de la Alternativa Bolivariana para las Américas (ALBA).

26.05.2006 Le società asiatiche continuano ad essere profondamente spirituali nonostante il rifiuto delle èlite nazionali non cristiane d’Asia che temono la penetrazione della Chiesa cattolica come mero strumento di sovversione delle economie e dei mercati asiatici. La spiritualità di satyagraha di Mahatma Gandhi, come il movimento di sarvodaya di Acharya Vinobha Bhave hanno servito un numero maggiore di asiatici che l’attività missionaria “nobelizzata e santificata” di Madre Teresa. Un modello di carità infinito ma che non si coniuga molto con i percorsi locali di “giustizia” che sono tipici di questi territori e che sono vere e proprie rivoluzioni solidali. Basti vedere le statistiche internazionali dell’aiuto post-tsunami. È vero che la solidarietà mondiale è stata imponente in termini di risorse ma quella locale ha dimostrato tutta la sua capacità di risposta.
di Fabio Pipinato

26.05.2006 In the last few decades, some progress has been made in helping poor people overcome poverty across the world. However, hundreds of millions still remain trapped in poverty. Stephen C. Smith, author of “Ending Global Poverty,” argues that effective programs and organizations in those countries are making a positive impact.

26.05.2006 The underdevelopment of rapidly “developing India” is quite evident as various human development indicators reflect that we have not been able to guarantee basic development rights to the citizens of India even after five decades of independence.

26.05.2006 As the European Union is finalizing a formal ban on the LTTE, Sri Lanka has called on the oil-rich Arab countries to follow suit.The plea was made by Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera in Doha.

26.05.2006 The country has achieved significant progress in some development activities and the trend of advancement would continue in future, said M Moniruzzaman Mia, commissioner of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC).

26.05.2006 The dramatic scientific advances enjoyed by India's urban elite have passed the country's rural poor by. What is missing, says one science ministry official, is a people-oriented approach for developing and delivering such technologies.

26.05.2006 Majority of Chandigarh's school teachers are not comfortable talking on HIV/AIDS and sexual and reproductive health to students and 60 per cent of the city's adolescents have problems related to sex, according to a Panjab University study.

26.05.2006 US federal judge has awarded $ 1.2 million to a group of 50 Indian workersafter finding the company that hired them guilty of fraud, false imprisonment and violations of civil rights.

26.05.2006 Any system of education should aim at a balanced growth of the individual and insist on both knowledge and wisdom, Governor Surjit Singh Barnala said.He also mention that the kind of education provided to the youth was determined overwhelmingly by the kind of men and women recruited as teachers.

25.05.2006 India, increasingly recognised as strong contender for a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council, is unlikely to field a candidate for the post of the UN's Secretary General.

25.05.2006 UNICEF's malnutrition is directly linked with backward caste system and needs to resolved accordingly.

25.05.2006 With about 60 million underweight children, India lagged far behind other countries with similar economic growth in reducing malnutrition, a World Bank report has said

25.05.2006 ICT have started to make their presence felt in Rural India. The farmers and farm-families are browsing the net and getting general, technical and marketing information from the Information kiosks in over 26000 villages across the country.

25.05.2006 Broadening the definition of the forest dwellers to include non-tribals, an extension of the cut-off date to claim rights over forestland and vesting of powers to implement the legislation with local communities instead of the forest department are among the review panelÂ’s recommended changes to the controversial tribal rights bill. However, these suggestions have dismayed conservationists

25.05.2006 Vinod Raina, a member of the Central Advisory Board for Education, and activist of the Bharat Gyan Vigyan Samiti, Madhya Pradesh, said that if the government had kept its very first promise in the CMP of allocating 6 per cent of the GDP for education, then no one would have murmured a word of protest over its proposed reservation for OBCs.

25.05.2006 In a massive raid in an industrial unit in the congested Sarai Kale Khan of South Delhi, Bachpan Bachao Andolan (BBA) with the help of police rescued 39 children working in exploitative conditions.

25.05.2006 Speakers at a roundtable said growing inequalities between the haves and have-nots, poor governance and human capacity as well as lack of overall quality in institutions are some of the challenges facing Bangladesh.

25.05.2006 Sri Lankan judge Christopher Gregory Weeramantry, former Vice-president of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the Hague, was awarded on Wednesday the UNESCO annual prize for peace education, the UN's culture and science organisation said.

24.05.2006 Pakistan's new budget for the coming financial year which is due to be presented on June 5 has prompted a sharp divide between supporters and critics of the country's economic direction.