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India needs to look at all angles to spur a blue economy ​ Wed, Jun 9 2021 14:21 IST | ​ 0 Views   India needs to look at all angles to spur a blue economy.. Image Source: IANS News New Delhi, June 9: Indias blue economy-essentially the ocean economy-is making a healthy 4 per cent contribution to Indias gross domestic product. Yet, this a proverbial drop in the ocean. Unfortunately, Indias marine policy has remained fragmented, notwithstanding the ambitious Sagarmala project. But as Ind...

Strengthening its support for women, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is joining the 2X Challenge, an initiative calling on the G7 group of nations and development finance institutions to step up their investments in the empower

COVID-19 caused a 30% fall in electronic and electrical equipment sales in low- and middle-income countries but only a 5% fall in high-income countries, intensifying the north-south digital divide, the UN says. Sales of heavy appliances like refrigerators fell hardest (6-8%) while laptops, cell phones and gaming equipment defied the general trend, rising in high-income countries and on a global basis, but dropping in low- and middle-income countries.

Understanding CPC key to understanding China, experts say By Yao Yuxin | chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2021-06-09 19:49 Journalists take photo of the Memorial for the Site of the First National Congress of the Communist Party of China in Shanghai, which reopens on June 3, 2021. [Photo by Gao Erqiang/chinadaily.com.cn] Chinas rapid development can provide experiences and lessons for developing countries seeking roads that suit their own conditions, and better un...

The 2021 P4G Seoul Summit wrapped up its two-day meeting on May 31 with world leaders affirming their commitment to an inclusive green recovery and carbon neutrality. During the first multilateral climate summit hosted by the Republic of Korea, leaders from developed and developing countries discussed measures to respond to climate change and reaffirmed the expansion of support for green growth in developing countries and their commitment to the goal of the Paris Agreement (to achieve carbon neu

After the acrimony of the Trump years, we can expect a very different feel to the latest G7 summit.

Der Gesundheitsminister sprach einem Bericht zufolge von einer der größeren Enttäuschungen beim Impfstoff des Tübinger Hersteller Curevac. Das Mittel galt lange als vielversprechend. Alle Infos im Newsblog.

WTO faces rival plans over vaccine IP rights before supply talks start 09 June 2021 - 20:13 Philip Blenkinsop Picture: 123RF/SASIRIN PAMAI Brussels — World Trade Organization (WTO) members agreed on Wednesday to start formal negotiations on a plan to boost Covid-19 vaccine supply to developing countries, but face rival proposals — one with and one without a waiver of intellectual property (IP) rights. SA and India, backed by many emerging nations, have been pushing for ei...

Posted By Betsy Ladyzhets, Science News on Sat, Jun 5, 2021 at 12:02 PM click to enlarge Wikimedia Commons / Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (India) As the United States and other nations celebrate what looks like the beginning of the end of the COVID-19 pandemic — with a quarter to half their populat...

A new paper makes the case that the increase in extreme poverty triggered by COVID-19 rivals the pandemic's direct health effects.Why it matters: The pandemic of extreme poverty could be lasting, and it deserves far more of the world's attention and help than it has gotten so far.Get market news worthy of your time with Axios Markets. Subscribe for free.By the numbers: Researchers from the London School of Economics (LSE) set out to calculate the impact of the pandemic on human wellbei...