Full coverage: Development

07.06.2006 Con una sola jugada, el presidente boliviano Evo Morales modificó el mapa geopolítico del continente. La nacionalización de los hidrocarburos decidida el 1 de mayo, coloca las segundas reservas de gas sudamericanas bajo control del Estado.

07.06.2006 No longer do the vast majority of migrants settle in just a small number of industrial nations (in the West)," says U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, in the 90-page report titled "International Migration and Development".

07.06.2006 The US State Department said that millions of people still work as bonded labour in industries across Pakistan. The departments 2006 report on human trafficking describes Pakistan as a source, destination, and transit country where men, women, and children are traded for the purposes of sexual exploitation and involuntary servitude.

07.06.2006 Fighting AIDS is getting them big business. Shrinking the massive battle against HIV/AIDS to the tiny space of the mobile phone screen, ZMQ Software Systems, which had launched the "Freedom HIV/AIDS" Mobile Games on the awareness of the disease on December 1, 2005 - World AIDS Day -- has become the first Indian company to be honoured by Global Business Coalition.

07.06.2006 President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam has suggested the creation of a World Knowledge Platform for the realisation of world-class products for commercial applications using the core competence of partner countries to meet the needs of many nations.

07.06.2006 The Free and Compulsory Education Bill, which would have forced the Centre to commit 3 per cent of the GDP or Rs 97,000 crore on elementary education, is likely to get a silent burial.

06.06.2006 Los sindicatos no creen en el diálogo que inició el Ministro de Comercio Exterior (COMEX), Marco Vinicio Ruiz, con obispos, diputados de oposición y que está pendiente de realizarse con los grupos sindicales.

06.06.2006 The direction and pace of development in information and communication technology (ICT) have led practically all world economies to recognize the importance of ICT in catalyzing economic activities, in efficient governance and in empowerment of the society.

06.06.2006 The field reports from at least 30 districts from different States on the implementation of the National Rural Employment Guarantee (NREG) scheme, do not present an encouraging picture.

06.06.2006 A meeting of the House of Representatives (HoR) declared Nepal as an untouchability-and-discrimination-free country. The historic declaration came after a discussion on a proposal of urgent public importance tabled by CPN-UML lawmaker Parashuram Meghi Gurung.

06.06.2006 Their fists raised in the air and clutching red flags, tens of thousands of Nepalis berated King Gyanendra as Maoist rebels held their first mass rally in the capital in over three years.

06.06.2006 By 2015, almost all new entrants in the global work force will come from developing countries, like India, according to a new report on global market trends, brought out by the International Labour Organisation (ILO).

06.06.2006 The government appointed Mukunda Sharma as the Acting Chief Secretary. A meeting of the Council of Ministers took the decision.Sharma was working as the officiating Chief Secretary after the formation of the seven-party government following the reinstatement of the House of Representatives (HoR).

06.06.2006 A recent report of Parliament Standing Committee that - the higher education has grown in quantity but lacked in quality - may be an eye-opener for Human Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh.

05.06.2006 The plight of farmers and labourers in the Kolleru area of Andhra—the lowland between Krishna and Godavari deltas—is a striking example of misplaced policies and institutional mistrust causing disproportionate damage, opines Jayaprakash Narayan, coordinator of the Lok Satta movement and of VoteIndia, a national campaign for political reforms.

05.06.2006 The lingering power crisis is creating severe pressure on the country's economy. However, a proposal of the Power Division -- suggesting measures for energy efficiency and alternative energy generation -- is lying idle with the Planning Commission for the past several years.

05.06.2006 As the next general elections in Bangladesh draw near, key world powers have expressed the optimism that the prevailing political deadlock in the country would not endanger democracy in the South Asian nation.

05.06.2006 The present report contends that view, argues that gender equality is not coherently assimilated neither by the current theoretical trends in education nor by the practices of the formal and informal systems, and provides conceptual clarity.

05.06.2006 Pakistan is ranked amongst the lowest in the world in higher education enrolment, with just 2.9 percent of students enrolled in universities in 2005.
According to the Economic Survey of Pakistan (2005-2006), the current adult literacy rate is 53 percent and net enrolment at primary level is 52 percent. Government spending on education in 2005-06 was just 2.1 percent of GDP, way below the regional average.

05.06.2006 An education policy for the 21st century will require resources of a very different order. We will have to be much more ambitious and invest far more than four percent of the GDP in the sector. And right now, as we continue with our unsustainable levels of defence expenditure, even that looks way beyond our reach.