Full coverage: Development

13.06.2006 In September 2000, world leaders gathered at the United Nations for the Millennium Assembly promised to halve extreme hunger and poverty, halt the spread of HIV/AIDS and provide universal primary education, all by 2015.

13.06.2006 Los cancilleres de las naciones miembros de la Comunidad Andina (CAN) inician hoy un encuentro en busca de consensos con miras a superar la crisis de esta organización, profundizada con la salida de Venezuela de ese bloque.

13.06.2006 A nivel mundial, los migrantes internacionales alcanzaron los 191 millones en 2005. Un tercio de ellos vive en países en desarrollo y procede de otro país en desarrollo, mientras que otro tercio vive en un país desarrollado siendo originario de un país en desarrollo.

12.06.2006 Rich countries led by the United States have cheated the developing countries under the garb of the Doha Development Round of WTO.This was stated by head of the trade justice campaign, Actionaid Pakistan, Mustafa Talpur at a press conference.

12.06.2006 Facing a cutback in financial aid from the United States for cited failure to usher in sufficient democratic reforms, Pakistan has denied the $250 million reduction was aimed at it specifically.

12.06.2006 Nepal's Parliament has unanimously voted to strip King Gyanendra of his right to veto laws, ensuring a purely ceremonial role for the once powerful monarch.
The new regulation was passed by the lawmakers, according to a Parliament notice.

12.06.2006 India has said it will give Nepal 10 billion rupees ($218m, £118m) in aid, most of it to be spent on development. The funds will be used to help build or upgrade roads, railways, an oil pipeline and an airport, a joint Indo-Nepalese statement said.

10.06.2006 In occasione dell'apertura ieri del meeting dei ministri delle Finanze dei paesi del G8 a San Pietroburgo, in vista del Summit del 15 - 17 luglio prossimi, per la definizione della sostenibilità finanziaria delle scelte politiche internazionali, la Focsiv chiede ai governi del G8 la continuità con le decisioni assunte allo scorso G8 di Gleneagles, che ha stabilito la cancellazione del debito per 18 paesi più indebitati. "Chiediamo al Governo italiano di rispettare gli impegni assunti e di fare pressione sulla presidenza russa del prossimo G8 di San Pietroburgo perchè i temi dello sviluppo, praticamente assenti dall'agenda russa, trovino un posto degno, proseguendo la strada iniziata con lo scorso G8" - afferma Sergio Marelli, direttore di Volontari nel mondo-Focsiv. "Torniamo a chiedere in questa importante scadenza che lo sviluppo sia sempre presente nelle agende internazionali e che gli Stati ricordino gli impegni presi con la firma della Dichiarazione del Millennio, con la quale si sono impegnati ad adottare politiche che sostengano lo sviluppo dei paesi più poveri e a dimezzare la fame entro il 2015".

09.06.2006 The World Health Assembly concluded its annual session over the weekend with the adoption of a resolution that could change the concept of drug research and development, and open the door to a system that gives the world's poor greater access to medicines.

09.06.2006 The growing North-South battle between the politically powerful nations in the industrial world and the economically weak countries in the developing world is threatening to escalate in a new war of words.

09.06.2006 The rebels, who teamed up with opposition parties to chase King Gyanendra from power in April, and now swear they have given up their decade-long guerrilla war, pulled (and pushed) tens of thousands of people into Kathmandu for their first rally here in three years.

09.06.2006 As Agriculture ministers from seven states of the country are meeting in Hyderabad to discuss the issue of BT seeds, a non-government organisation campaigning against genetically modified seeds has demanded a ban on BT seeds in India.

08.06.2006 Maintaining good governance ahead of the national elections in the next few months is the key challenge for the development programme of Bangladesh, said World Bank Bangladesh's Country Director Christine Wallich.

08.06.2006 The much awaited draft of the House of Representatives’ Regulation, which was tabled and discussed at the meeting of the House of Representatives today, has further strengthened the parliament by scrapping the concept of the King in parliament.

08.06.2006 An unprecedented war of words between the United States and the United Nations over a controversial speech by world body?s deputy secretary-general threatens to undermine the world body reforms and possibly land it in dire straits financially.

08.06.2006 AT LAST, there seems to be a realisation in the Information Technology (IT) and IT Enabled Services (ITES) sector that the industry must give back to education what it is taking away — the cream of graduates passing out every year.

08.06.2006 The Centre is in the process of drafting legislation for resettlement of the displaced people, particularly those affected by developmental projects, Union Rural Development Minister Raghuvansh Prasad Singh said.

08.06.2006 Asha works with many schools that attempt to provide quality holistic education to children from poor economic backgrounds. These schools come under a special category called Alternative Education schools (Alt-ed schools) because they seek to explore different alternatives in education.

08.06.2006 The right to education is at the very heart of UNESCO's mission and is an integral part of its constitutional mandate.

08.06.2006 How can we address the issue of the information and knowledge society without first dealing with the fact that almost a sixth of the world's population remains illiterate, and thus excluded from the possibility of effectively participating in a knowledge-driven society.