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Researchers assessed the recruitment and results reporting of randomized clinical trials (RCTs) to treat or prevent COVID-19 registered within 100 days of the first case reported to the World Health Organization.

Becoming A Developing Nation: Bangladesh reaches A Milestone UN gives final nod to country’s graduation from LDC status; transition period extended to 2026 Bangladesh has stepped into a new journey as it qualified to graduate into a developing nation from a Least Developed Country (LDC) after 45 years. The United Nations Committee for Development Policy (UN CDP) recommended  the graduation in its final evaluation on Friday. Bangladesh is scheduled to officially become a developing country in...

China said it looked forward to seeing more countries in facilitating their efforts towards the cause.

US It seems Wall Street is much more confident about the economic recovery than the Fed and if we see a better-than-expected employment report that could deepen the bond market selloff.  The US nonfarm payroll report for February is expected to show a 133,000 gain in jobs, which would be an improvement over the 49,000 increase in January.  Risk appetite will continue to react closely to what happens in the bond market and more importantly with Fed speak.  The surge in Treasury yields has yet...

 E-Mail Herndon, Va. (February 25, 2021) - Climate services are vital tools for decision makers addressing climate change in developing countries. Science-based seasonal forecasts and accompanying materials can support climate risk management in agriculture, health, water management, energy, and disaster risk reduction. But in East Africa, natural resource managers have been slow to use climate information services, partly because they are difficult to understand and may not feel relevant for ...

As Ghana becomes the first country to receive vaccines from the UN-led COVAX scheme, the West has been warned that a post-COVID economic recovery is dependent on vaccinating the developing world.

 E-Mail BROOKLYN, New York, Wednesday, February 24, 2021 -The Governance Lab (The GovLab) at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering released a report, "The Power of Virtual Communities," which examines the role online groups play in creating opportunities for people to build new kinds of meaningful communities they often could not form in real space. This first-of-its-kind research was built on interviews with 50 Facebook community leaders in 17 countries, 26 global experts from academia and in...

Patience please: India’s ASEAN journey has much further to go Premium (ANI Photo ) Prabir De Let’s not dismiss our free trade agreement with this bloc as a failure without assessing its actual gains and future potential Share Via Read Full Story Very often, especially after India’s recent refusal to join the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (RCEP), we hear that “the ASEAN-India FTA is not good for India". While India’s free trade agreement (FTA) with the 10-member...

GOVERNMENT has allocated $65 million for its Green Climate Readiness Support project, whi...

Introduction If there was any doubt that Nigeria is a failing State, the politics and pathology of the cow business now make it manifestly so. Nigeria is strutting towards a possible implosion, on account of growing lawlessness. In spite of many years of denial, leading members of the ruling APC now concede the obvious: Nigeria is largely an ungoverned territory. The Governor of Kaduna State, recently at a national dialogue, pointedly described Nigeria as a lawless State. He pointed to the abse...