Full Coverage: Development

29.05.2007 In June 2007, the Ministry of Local Self-Government will start a series of presentations of the Law on Equal Regional Development in the eight statistical regions in Macedonia.

26.05.2007 ASUNCION, May 25 (IPS) - Esperanza Santos Aranda, who lives in a poor neighbourhood in the Paraguayan capital, used to sell vegetables at a precarious market stall. But thanks to a 60-dollar loan, she was able to open up her own small clothes-selling business.

25.05.2007 Hundreds of NGOs and civil society organisations from nearly 135 countries have gathered at Glasgow, Scotland to call for more accountable governance from governments, the media and civil society.

21.05.2007 Shumaila is sitting for her school certificate exam this month. But that does not relieve her from daily chores that include tending to dozen or so head of cattle.

18.05.2007 Despite Paul Wolfowitz's resignation, the World Bank's reputation remains in tatters, international anti-poverty group ActionAid said today.
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17.05.2007 Contract farming is increasingly being presented as a solution for the problems of Indian agriculture, by major international donor agencies, multinational companies and even the government.

16.05.2007 As an impact of the reconstruction needs, processed wood will also be required in a large amount. According to WWF’s latest estimation, in order to rebuild Aceh 1, 5 -1, 6 million m³ logs are needed, and the wood requirement amounts 800.000-900.000 m³.

09.05.2007 The IUSS Pavia, Institute for Advance Study (Istituto Universitario di Studi Superiori) announces the start of the enrolment procedure for two Master Studies: Master in Cooperation and Development and Master in Cooperation and International Economic Integration.

07.05.2007 With a humane and empathetic farmer-sensitive approach, eighty Kisan Call Centres (KCC) across the country are addressing issues raised by farmers from fungus on brinjals to kisan credit cards and prices of insecticides. Neeta Lal from the Women's Feature Service, reports on the working of these centres, their problems and potential.

07.05.2007 Reaffirming its commitment to child rights, CRY America has changed its name to Child Rights and You America Inc. The change was announced at a media conference at the Altman building in New York.Addressing the media, Shefali Sunderlal, President, CRY America said, "While the relief approach addresses the symptoms, the rights approach looks at why the problem exists and addresses its root causes".

04.05.2007 The EFA Global Monitoring Report 2006 aims to shine a stronger policy spotlight on the more neglected goal of literacy - a foundation not only for achieving EFA but, more broadly, for reaching the overarching goal of reducing human poverty.

03.05.2007 Uruguayan Vice President Rodolfo Nin Novoa inaugurated a meeting of Global Call to Action against Poverty (GCAP), a worldwide coalition of civil society organisations lobbying governments to eradicate poverty, with a call to the campaign to help bring down poverty and a promise to halve Uruguayan poverty levels by 2015.

03.05.2007 Economic development is closely associated with poverty reduction in many countries. It is also believed that increased income levels lead to improved health, education and living standards. However, development experiences show that there is no automatic link between increased per capita income and reduction in poverty levels.

03.05.2007 The government has received more than 75 percent of foreign aid out of the Rs.100 billion anticipated for the year 2007 with the signing of agreements to receive Rs.72 billion within the first four months of the year. State Revenue and Finance Minister Dr Ranjith Siyambalapitiya told the Daily News that it was a great victory on the part of the Government to receive such amounts of foreign aid

03.05.2007 India's emergence as the 12th country in the world with a trillion-dollar economy could prove to be a mixed blessing, and there are fears that it could slow down the growth of this country's computer software and information technology (IT)-enabled services as well as the export of textiles and garments.

02.05.2007 The enormous increase in the proportion and number of self-employed workers in India in recent years is still not adequately analysed.Prof.C.P Chandrasekhar and Prof.Jayati Ghosh argue that rising trend of self-employment reflects the precarious conditions of labour markets in India, where paid employment is simply not increasing fast enough to meet the needs of the growing labour force.