13.03.2008
SAARC countries have recently launched the South Asia Food Security Programme with an estimated cost of US$ 25 million. Together Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka will strive to improve crop production and nutrition in the region by pooling together scientific and natural resources.
more...Related topics/regions: [South Asia] [Agriculture] [International cooperation] [Poverty]
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Step to achieve MDG- 8
Millennium Development Goal 8 aims to build a global partnership for development. This eighth goal is very important as it complements the other seven. Although it is essential that developing countries direct their own development and implement policies to achieve the other seven goals, the eighth goal shows what the world could do as a ‘community’ to aid this development. The important issues which need immediate attention to achieve MDG targets are as follow.
Develop further an open, rule-based, predictable, non-discriminatory trading and financial system.
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Address the special needs of landlocked countries and Small Island developing States.
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Deal comprehensively with the debt problems of developing countries through national and international measures in order to make debt sustainable in the long term.
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Develop donor support for and commitment towards good governance, development, and poverty reduction - both nationally and internationally.
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In co-operation with developing countries, develop and implement strategies for decent and productive work for youth.
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Provide access to affordable essential drugs on a sustainable basis to all.
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Here the good governance includes support of international organisation, government policy, active bilateral and multi lateral cooperation, effective participation and support for common cause.
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In co-operation with the private sector, make available the benefits of new technologies, especially information and communications
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Multi-Stakeholder Participation includes active participation of central government, state government, local government, private sector, CBOs, NGO and International organisation.
20.02.2007
For the third time in less than a year, terrorists have attempted to derail the peace process between India and Pakistan. Handing them a victory is the last thing we should do.Mr Siddharth Varadarajan. express this view in Hindu.
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13.12.2006
Voicing concern over Pakistan’s non-implementation of South Asian Free Trade Area (Safta), the government said Islamabad’s Safta notification on July 1, this year, was limited to tariff concessions for India on items in the positive list.
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