Nepal and Bangladesh are reducing poverty faster compared to India, according to a new study based on the multidimensional poverty index developed at the University of Oxford and used by the UN Development Programme (UNDP) in its Human Development Reports. ...
03:36 AM, Mar 19, 2013
New Delhi: The significance of the World Population Day, observed on July 11 every year, lies in the fact that the world holds 7,025,071,966 people as on July 9, 2012, a leap of over 2.5 times over the last fifty years, while earth's resources remain finite. A huge number of people, running into billions, suffer from abject poverty, starvation, malnutrition, diseases, illiteracy, lack of access to healthcare, wars and all...
09:53 AM, Jul 11, 2012
The World Population Day is observed on July 11 every year to raise the awareness of people about global population issues. In 1989, in its decision 89/46, the Governing Council of the United Nations Development Programme recommended that, in order to focus attention on the urgency and importance of population issues in the context of overall development plans and programmes and the need to find solutions for these issues, 11...
08:46 AM, Jul 10, 2012
New Delhi Compared to India, a higher percentage of women in Pakistan feel they are treated with respect, says a United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) report. According to the report, 81 per cent women in Pakistan are treated with respect as compared to 79 percent in India. Even Bangladesh - with 86 per cent - fares better on this index than India. The report, titled "The Real Wealth of Nations:...
05:56 PM, Nov 05, 2010
New Delhi: India ranks 119 among 169 countries on the human development index (HDI) but is among the top 10 nations in the world in terms of growth of income, the 2010 United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) report released on Thursday shows. HDI is a measure of development based on information such as life expectancy, schooling and income in a composite manner. Norway ranks first on the UNDP's HDI while...
10:11 PM, Nov 04, 2010
Report says immigrants and Canada have mutually benefitted each other. ...
10:15 AM, Oct 06, 2009
The report is based on UN data released on Monday. ...
01:18 PM, Oct 05, 2009
Sanitation and water supply in rural India are in a sorry state of affairs, says the UNDP report. ...
08:38 AM, Nov 11, 2006
