Full Coverage: Development

28.06.2006 Oil wars, water wars, land wars, atmospheric wars: this is the real face of economic globalisation, whose appetite for resources is exceeding the limits of sustainability and justice, writes Vandana Shiva, an author and international campaigner for women and the environment.

28.06.2006 The India-Pakistan border is increasingly being used for smuggling narcotics into India, a senior United Nations official said.Addressing a press conference to mark the release of the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) 2006 World Drug Report here, Gary Lewis, UNODC Representative for South Asia, said increased trans-border civilian movement could be one of the reasons.

27.06.2006 Upgrading skills did not result in solving the educated unemployment problem in India and Sri Lanka. South Asian economies or particularly those sectors of economies that employ educated people, did not expand much. There was also a mismatch between the qualities of labour force demanded by the market and those that were supplied by the systems of education and training.

27.06.2006 Arambh has taken up the challenge of getting Bhopal’s slum children to return to school. Scores of children attend its centres to study and re-enter the education system, at timings that best suit them, especially if they are working

27.06.2006 Appointment of good teachers is the key to success of any institution, and only the best should be appointed, the Governor, Surjit Singh Barnala, has said. He also said that good teachers are the key to well-educated students. To achieve better education, we have to begin with teachers.

26.06.2006 Building on recent strong growth, countries in South Asia can dramatically reduce poverty by embracing policies aimed at increasing investment and productivity, and improving the quality of labor, while addressing pervasive income inequalities and poor service delivery, according to Economic Growth in South Asia, a World Bank report.

26.06.2006 UNESCO has offered to support the IT dissemination project of the State, Akshaya, in view of its potential to facilitate women's empowerment. The contents proposed to be developed relate to legal guidance, career guidance, Government schemes, health and welfare of mothers and children. Select Akshaya centres will receive aid, which includes research and training.

26.06.2006 Earlier, there were no 'outside' fertilisers or seeds. There were no (plant) diseases and we were happy", recalls 83-year-old Chandrappa, farming for the last 60 years on his family's five acres in the black cotton-soil heartland of this southern Indian State.

23.06.2006 International organisations expect India to play a lead role in the global control of small arms because the country has been a major victim of the illegal trade in foreign-made sophisticated arms. They want that India should be able to push for a consensus at a UN conference on small arms that begins on June 26.

23.06.2006 une 23, 2006 Thousands of villagers, panchayat representatives and women from marginalised communities. flagged off rozgar adhikar yatra from Palia in Lakhimpur Kheri district in terai region of Uttar Pradesh. presence of Hamida Bano president of Rashtriya Mahilla Evam Yuva Uthan Samiti flagged off the yatra.

23.06.2006 A much-touted "development package" offered recently to the world's least developed countries is "rife with tricks" and could be far more limited than originally publicised because the United States maintains the right to deny the promised duty-free access to some of those countries' most important exports, a new study says.

23.06.2006 Worldwide more than 211 million children aged 5 to 14 are passing through different forms of child labor. Three million Nepali children are working under extreme hardship. Laws were made, but have been left unenforced.

23.06.2006 A balance between the demands brought on by Lahore's development imperatives and the right of its residents to live in environment-friendly surroundings needs to be struck. At the very least, Environmental Impact Assessments should be conducted by the government and made public.

22.06.2006 The Indian government has increased its allocation of funds to states and union territories for the school midday meals scheme. The increased outlay of 50 paise per child per school day is meant to cover the cost of cooking the meals.

22.06.2006 Keeping a promise made at the United Nations six years ago to dramatically improve the lives of at least 100 million poor city dwellers by the year 2020 will be a major focus of the World Urban Forum.

22.06.2006 The Directorate of Literacy and Continuing Education of Rajasthan has been awarded the UNESCO's Confucius Prize for excellence in initiatives for marginalised adolescents in rural areas.

21.06.2006 The five 2006 UNESCO Literacy prizes go to literacy projects in Cuba, India, Morocco, Pakistan and Turkey. A project in China has also received an Honourable Mention.The winners have made particularly effective contributions to the fight against illiteracy, one of UNESCO’s priorities.

21.06.2006 Proclaiming a message of “zero tolerance” for child sex tourism in Sri Lanka, the United Nations is supporting a two-year action plan launched by the country’s tourist board to stop such exploitation, targeting visitors, children and adolescents, hoteliers, journalists, families and community leaders

21.06.2006 MOVING away from the traditional role of funding primary and elementary education, the UK Government’s Department for International Development (DFID) is making silent inroads into special educational projects run by the West Bengal Government by promising ‘‘technical assistance’’.

21.06.2006 An increase in development aid since 2002 has raised health and education standards and hastened gender equality among the world's poorest nations, but overall poverty conditions are not improving, a new United Nations report said.