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- Global economic crisis far from over: UNCTAD
- United Nations Conference on Trade and Development’s new report has predicted a bleak future for the world economy. The study released yesterday has blamed ...
- Despair driving women to commit suicides in Pakistan
- Present trend of rising food prices in Pakistan is driving women to commit suicide who face increased tensions within their homes. Between January and May this ...
- Rising oil prices a threat to MDGs
- A new report from UNDP uses the Oil Price Vulnerability Index (OPVI) to measure the brunt of rising oil prices on Asia’s poor. While India may fare better than ...
- Poor face the heat of global economic crisis
- No jobs, no fresh loans being sanctioned by banks, trains running empty, clearly the global economic meltdown is beginning to be felt in India. It’s the poor ...
- FAO says hunger has grown in the world
- High food prices have added 40 million more this year to the world's undernourished people. The UN’s Food and Agricultural Organisation fears that the ongoing ...
- Challenging new poverty lines
- The World Bank recently released its ‘updated’ global poverty estimates. Sanjay G. Reddy in his paper titled: The New Global Poverty Estimates – Digging ...
- Recovering from conflict
- UNDP’s latest report Post-Conflict Economic Recovery: Enabling Local Ingenuity emphasises that recovery programming in war-torn countries must be ...
- India suffering due to World Bank policies
- A citizens' tribunal has accused the World Bank of worsening India’s agricultural crisis, pushing people further into poverty and harming the environment. Such ...
- Rights in times of crisis
- Unregulated economic policies have curtailed international commitments to end poverty and achieve gender equality says Social Watch's new report Rights ...
- A billion people go hungry on world food day
- On World Food Day, international NGO Oxfam has asked the developed countries to devise mechanisms to ensure food security, and design social security systems ...
- Rising income inequalities
- ILO’s latest study World of Work Report 2008 finds the income gap between rich and poor households has widened significantly over the years. To ...
- Pakistan's economic crisis worst in decade
- After a near decade of growth, lack of security and compounding debt has Pakistan on the wrong foot. Huge trade deficits may lead to a halt in food production ...
- Economic crisis looms over MDGs
- Five eminent economists along with UN chief discussed the impact of the current global economic crisis, especially on developing economies. The team of experts ...
- Top economists skeptical of fiscal stimulus package
- Indian economists say that the remedies being sought to come out of the ongoing economic recession are going to further deepen the crisis. They suggest fiscal ...
- India's migrant workers feel the pinch of meltdown
- In the prosperous state of Punjab, the flow of cash from abroad is declining sharply owing to global economic crisis. Migrant workers working overseas are able ...
- ILO predicts global unemployment growth by 20 million
- The ongoing global economic crisis is going to increase unemployment worldwide. Director-General of ILO says it is about time that all governments of the world ...
- Clean technologies need revolutionary push
- In an interview, Yvo de Boer, executive secretary of the UNFCCC, says transfer of clean technologies to developing countries is the central plank of any ...
- No breakthrough in WTO talks
- After nine days of hectic negotiations at Geneva, the Doha Round of multi-lateral trade talks collapsed once again as India and China remain unrelenting on the ...
- Fresh loan to stabilise Pakistan economy
- In times of global financial crisis, Pakistan’s dwindling economy has been savoured for the time being with a fresh loan of $7.6 billion from the International ...
- 'World is too big to be saved by China'
- When China announced its US$ 586 billion stimulus package earlier this month, it was dubbed as the biggest ever recovery plan of peacetime to rescue the world ...
- UN calls for global stimulus to counter meltdown
- A new UN report stresses on the need to work in a coordinated manner with emphasis on sustainable development to resurrect the sinking world economy. It calls ...
- High food price likely despite record crop
- An expected record cereal crop production this year should not produce a false security on food prices, UN warns. The current global financial crisis can ...
- Global meltdown to affect Bangladeshi workers abroad
- For Bangladesh, remittances from overseas are a major source of foreign income. With the global financial crunch showing signs of sliding demand for its ...
- Economic crisis no cause to cut AIDS funding to Asia
- An Asian civil society body has called upon governments, donors and UN agencies to not cut back on funds towards AIDS programmes under the current economic ...
- Financial crisis to hit food security, warns FAO
- On the eve of the World Food Day, FAO warned that less aid for agriculture in face of the global financial crash could risk another food crisis in coming year. ...
- Sri Lanka's war budget draws flak
- Mounting offensive operations against the LTTE, the strife-torn island nation has increased its defence spending to an all time high. While reflecting concerns ...
- Approach to gender-just development
- Human Development and Gender, a research paper by Dr Vibhuti Patel advocates that gender sensitive human development ensures an inclusive growth. ...
- India Economic Summit 2008
- Geneva based World Economic Forum is organising the India Economic Summit from November 16-18, 2008 in New Delhi. With its principal theme of “Securing ...
- New concerns over rising poverty
- The latest international benchmarks suggest that between 456 and 622 million people in India are living below the poverty line. The solution lies in shifting ...
- Demise of microfinance will prove devastating
- The on-going global credit crisis has already started impacting the poor in South Asia. For close to four decades microfinance programmes in the region had ...
