The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
The Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) has been implementing a Tk 109 crore uplift project to attain economic prosperity side by side with alleviating poverty in the metropolis. Officials told BSS here yesterday that the four-year project titled "Secondary Towns Integrated Flood Protection (phase-2)" is being implemented to raise economic growth …
- How to turn the river of sorrow into a river of hope N.K. Singh The author is a Rajya Sabha member of Parliament Every new report about the devastation caused by the river Kosi only heightens our anxiety
Two efforts to redraw the poverty line in Asia find that millions more are barely getting by. It's hard to imagine a balance sheet where the accounting matters more. In Asia, despite an ongoing boom, hundreds of millions of people still subsist on such meager incomes that any shift in …
Forming multi donor trust fund in the name of aiding Bangladesh in facing risk of climate change is an evil strategy, speakers said at a press conference yesterday. Rejecting "Climate Change Strategy and Action for Bangladesh" of the government, they said the strategy paper was prepared according to the advice …
The Government has decided to channel all ADB funds for the development of roads that come under the purview of Provincial councils, said Media Minister Lakshman Yapa Abeywardene. He said the Government has utilised Rs. 24,803 million out of Rs. 50,450 million allocated for road development activities for 2008. There …
Asian Development Bank will provide US $0.8 million for Market Infrastructure Project Punjab (formerly Rural Business Development Project and Rural Economy Business Development Project), which will support development of an improved agro-marketing network, with infrastructure investment for efficient commodity supply chains, and associated regulatory and product quality improvement. According to …
The expected long-term impact of the Sundarbans Biodiversity Conservation Project was to secure the integrity of the environment and biodiversity of the Sundarbans Reserved Forest (SRF). Comprising 6,000 square kilometers, the SRF is a globally significant ecosystem with a rich area of biodiversity and natural resources. It is the world
Asian Development Bank (ADB) has offered new ways to measure poverty in Asia and Pacific and fixed US$1.35 a day as a new poverty line for the region. In a report released on Wednesday, the ADB provided a comparable rates of poverty using price data specific to the Asia and …
Bs Reporter / New Delhi August 27, 2008, 19:05 IST Asian Development Bank (ADB) today released a new poverty line, called the Asian Poverty Line to measure the poverty in the Asia and Pacific region. The poverty line is roughly $ 1.35 per day. This new measure is contained in …
NEW DELHI: The Asian Development Bank has offered a new way to measure poverty in the Asia and Pacific region, a day after the World Bank issued an update based on revised norms. The new poverty line, called the
Pakistan can overcome impending water scarcity challenges by adopting proper and timely strategies besides enhancing its reservoirs and reducing water losses in the country, water experts said at a two-day conference which began here on Tuesday. The national conference on Water Shortage and Future Agriculture Challenges and Opportunities has been …
Soaring food and energy prices are likely to push five per cent of the population of the small island economies in the Pacific into poverty, the Asian Development Bank said Tuesday. Oil producers East Timor and Papua New Guinea, which is also boosted by high mineral prices, are
The Hyderabad Electric Supply Company (Hesco) is planning to establish 16 new grids stations in different parts of Sindh so as to ensure uninterrupted power supply to consumers, said the Chief Executive Officer of Hyderabad Electric Supply Company, Guftar Anjum. Giving details of the development projects being executed in different …
The employees of Sindh Rural Development Project, local government department, have appealed to the Sindh government, the People's Party and the Muttahida Qaumi Movement to save the employees of the project and their families from starvation by regularising their services as they are likely to be rendered jobless with the …
