Full coverage: Development

23.08.2006

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The reference to ‘flatness’ alludes to the more level playing field due to globalization that has enabled China, India, and others to start catching up with the living standards of rich countries. But as Birdsall points out, the world is far from flat. In particular, unequal opportunities exist and persist both at the level of households within countries and at the level of nations in a global context; indeed the same forces of globalization are likely to exacerbate these inequalities

22.08.2006 El anuncio del gobierno norteamericano de revisar si “limita, suspende o retira” las preferencias comerciales que otorga en el marco del Sistema Generalizado de Preferencias (SGP) a tres países latinoamericanos representa un gesto de presión política.

22.08.2006 Afrikkalaisten tulee rakentaa oma ja itsenäinen koululaitos, jotta mantereen nuorisolle taataan ihmisarvoinen tulevaisuus. "Miksi joissakin länsimaissa kehitysmaiden kansalaisten maahantulo on niin suuri kysymys? Näiden samojen maiden kansalaisia tulvii Afrikkaan ongelmitta", pohtii Glory Mushinge.

22.08.2006 In order to advance towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), gender equality cannot merely be limited to a number of specific objectives, but must be the lens through which all the targets are viewed, say experts and representatives of women's movements in Argentina.

21.08.2006 El presidente de Venezuela, Hugo Chávez, reiteró ue sólo en el socialismo se puede garantizar el pleno desarrollo agropecuario de la nación. Al intervenir en la inauguración de una planta procesadora de leche en el estado Barinas, el mandatario señaló que la revolución agraria continúa fortaleciéndose.

21.08.2006 Cada vez es menos la gente que cree en los beneficios del tratado de libre comercio (TLC) con Estados Unidos y cientos de miles podrían salir a las calles a rechazar el acuerdo, según una encuesta de Cid-Gallup publicada la semana pasada en el diario La República.

21.08.2006

21.08.2006 On the edge of the expanding wave of Internet connectivity, Punavali Kalan is located deep in the impoverished region of Bundelkhand in India. This tiny community of 3,800 inhabitants is an oasis where local information is exchanged, discussed,...

21.08.2006 This report is based on six case studies of eGovernment activities in India analysis the impacts and costs Information and Communications Technologies for development.

21.08.2006 A tall lanky youth rounds a bend in a mountain path and sees a group, stripped of their packs, resting in the shade of a tree near a small waterfall. He approaches, says hello and shakes hands with those nearest and then stretches and even clambers up a small incline to clasp hands with everyone, rare behaviour in this remote hill region.

21.08.2006 U.S. Chargé d’Affaires in Pakistan Peter Bodde has announced the awarding of U.S. Agency for International Development Earthquake Reconstruction grants worth $70 million to international and Pakistani non-governmental organizations that will improve health and education services in the earthquake-affected areas and create economic opportunities for the local population.

21.08.2006 Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) the governments flagship programme to enrol all children in the age group of 6-14 in schools suffers from inadequacies, ranging from misuse of funds to ineffective monitoring both at the national and state levels, the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has said.

18.08.2006 From the Simputer to the $ 100 laptop for children, there have been many innovations that have attempted to bridge the digital divide. But these have created a divide of their own, with one group of technologists calling it the “ultimate solution” and another dismissing it as “the scam of the century”

18.08.2006 The enabling legislation to ensure the fundamental right to education to Indian children has been watered down yet again, with Indian government deleting a crucial clause on quotas for underprivileged children in private schools, in the model Bill that it has sent to states for their feedback

18.08.2006

AIDS

The promise of new vaccines and more effective prevention programmes will fail to halt the spread of HIV/AIDS unless fear and social stigma can also be eliminated -- including among those living with the disease, experts say at XVI International AIDS Conference, Toronto Canada held on 13-18 Aug. 2006.

18.08.2006 Even as the families displaced by the Sardar Sarovar Project were facing colossal tragedy of large-scale submergence and displacement in the Narmada valley from the overflowing Narmada dam, another crisis was in the making with release of water from the upstream Tawa and Narmada Sagar dams, according to the Narmada Bachao Andolan (NDA) leader Medha Patkar

18.08.2006 The reliability and safety of oral polio vaccine (OPV) has been put under scrutiny in Pakistan after wild rumours that it causes impotency snowballed into a writ petition in a high court.

18.08.2006 Millions of tonnes of iron ore from scores of small mines that have sprung up in the onion fields around this small town in southern Karnataka state are going into building China's gleaming, steel and glass office towers and stadiums for the 2008 Olympic Games.

18.08.2006 Maanantaina alkaneen tulitauon seurauksena tuhannet Libanonilaiset ovat aloittaneet paluun kotiseuduilleen. Noin puolet konfliktin aikana kodeistaan paenneista 800 000 siviilistä on lapsia.

17.08.2006 A new beginning at Deepalaya - a beginning with which education will reach working children who may otherwise not have access to school. With the support of the Edukans Foundation, Netherlands, a Mobile School was dedicated to the children residing in the slums around Shalimar Bagh and working in the industrial establishments around.