The report presents a mixed picture. Over the past 25 years, there have been notable improvements in child well-being in the group of countries examined in this report: steady decline in child mortality, overall reduction in adolescent suicide and increase in school completion rates. But the last five years have …
The Global Gender Gap Index featured in the 2015 Report ranks over 140 economies according to how well they are leveraging their female talent pool, based on economic, educational, health-based and political indicators. With a decade of data, this edition of the Global Gender Gap Report – first published in …
The U.S. Government’s Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) and the Government of Liberia today celebrated the signing of a new $257 million partnership agreement at a ceremony at the U.S. Department of State. The ceremony included remarks by MCC CEO Dana J. Hyde, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs …
Government has been taking a number of initiatives to achieve gender equity in the social sectors like health, education, etc. and to achieve gender parity on social, economic and political arena. Providing equal space for everyone is the policy of the Government of India since its independence, and this is …
This briefing note presents a general overview of El Niño phenomenon and its main impacts on children's physical and mental health, and education. It also provides a summary of the situation in some of the affected countries in Africa, Asia-Pacific and Latin America. Further, the briefing note explains how UNICEF …
Africa and India have had a rich distinguished history, first ushered by Indian traders led by the seasonal monsoon winds before they upscaled their presence in the 17th century due to the abundance of spices on the East African coast. The colonial period brought with it a new demand for …
Judgement of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of Dr. Sandeep s/o Sadashivrao Kansurkar & Others Versus Union of India and Others dated 27/10/2015. The grievance of the Applicant is that states like Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Tamil Nadu, confine the eligibility for appearing in the superspecialty entrance …
This book lays out a range of policy actions that are needed at the various phases of the demographic transition and uses global and regional experiences to provide evidence on what has worked and what has not. Countries have a menu of options available to speed up the transition, improve …
The Key Indicators for Asia and the Pacific 2015, the 46th edition of this series, includes the latest available economic, financial, social, and environmental indicators for the 48 regional members of the Asian Development Bank. It presents the latest key statistics on development issues concerning the economies of Asia and …
The basic premise of this report is that the conversation on the future of development needs to shift from a focus on poverty to that of inequality. The poverty emphasis is in an intellectual and political cul de sac. It does not address the fundamental question of why people are …
Africa’s strong economic growth has contributed to improving people’s health and education in the past 20 years as well as major reductions in poverty in several countries, but a rapid rise in population has led to increases in the overall number of extreme poor, the World Bank Group said in …
Ghana’s strong economic growth in the past two decades helped cut the country’s poverty rate in half, from 52.6% to 21.4% between 1991 and 2012. This is based on Ghana’s national poverty line. But according to the newly released “Poverty Reduction in Ghana: Progress and Challenges,” report, sustained poverty reduction …
How’s Life? describes the essential ingredients that shape people’s well-being in OECD and partner countries. It includes a wide variety of statistics, capturing both material well-being (such as income, jobs and housing) and the broader quality of people’s lives (such as their health, education, work-life balance, environment, social connections, civic …
The number of people living in extreme poverty around the world is likely to fall to under 10 percent of the global population in 2015, according to World Bank projections released, giving fresh evidence that a quarter-century-long sustained reduction in poverty is moving the world closer to the historic goal …
The Global Competitiveness Report 2015-2016 assesses the competitiveness of 140 world economies. Using a mixture of quantitative and survey data, it ranks countries overall by combining 113 indicators grouped under 12 pillars of competitiveness: institutions; infrastructure; macroeconomic environment; health and primary education; higher education and training; goods market efficiency; labour …
HCM City authorities have altered their poverty-reduction strategy by focusing on long-term, sustainable results, following 23 years of success in reducing the poverty rate. "While celebrating these achievements, we have to admit that it was unsustainable. Households escaping poverty face risks of falling into poverty again," said Le Thanh Hai, …
With around 300,000 children of school-going age not enrolled and a high dropout rate, the state of education in government schools in Thatta and Sujawal districts is beyond dismal. Between 70 to 85 per cent of the around 3,202 schools in the two districts remain devoid of basic facilities like …
The emerging economies Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Russia, South Africa and Turkey – in short, the BRICSAMIT – have come to be considered the economic powerhouses of recent decades. Not only have these countries managed to reduce poverty; most have embarked on a steep economic growth path and play …
Ghana has formally launched the final Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) report in Accra on Tuesday. In line with the six previous biennial reports, the 2015 MDGs report examines progress made since 2000 towards all the goals and targets, and draws some lessons from the implementation and monitoring of the MDGs. …
Tackling gender inequality and boosting women’s opportunities in the labour market could add $12tn (£7.8tn) to annual global GDP over the next decade, according to new research. The McKinsey Global Institute has measured gender inequality across 95 countries, using 15 different indicators, including not just women’s role in the workplace, …
Luanda — The Council of Christian Churches in Angola (CICA), along with the Lubango (Huila province) Justice and Peace Archdiocese and the Catholic Church, Tuesday in Luanda released the third 2014 report on the fight against poverty. Speaking to Angop about the institution's Good Governance and Social Monitoring Project, CICA …
