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The number of services provided via the National Public Service Portal has reached 2,700 after four new ones made debut on December 30, expected to help save 8 trillion VND (346.9 million USD) each year.

Economies must move not only from relief to recovery, but also to reinvention.  . Read more at straitstimes.com.

Posted The UNDP’s Human Development Index (HDI) is a major achievement. It has focused the world’s attention on the human aspects of development, highlighting and featuring not just economic gains but also schooling and education and life expectancy. In this, it was a hugely important corrective for a development community that tended to have a pure economic growth -focused agenda. Over the years the UNDP has also refined the index. Creating alternatives that alongside these co...

One big lesson from the political and economic history of Pakistan is that ad-hoc and inorganic political arrangements are destined to fail sooner or later.The latest example is the hybrid regime of...

Op-ed: Equities likely to grow, but finding yield remains difficult CNBC 12/28/2020 Bond yields likely will remain paltry in 2021, but higher yields are available from alternative fixed-income investments that individual investors typically overlook. Conditions pointing to equity growth include the continuation of the Feds bond-buying program at current levels and anticipated economic recovery related to coronavirus vaccinations. Infrastructure stocks stand to benefit if Congress enacts an in...

news Niger votes in presidential and legislative elections Africanews 27/12/2020 People in Niger began voting in the countrys presidential and parliamentary elections on Sunday. Mohamed Bazoum, the right-hand man of outgoing President Mahamadou Issoufou is the favourite to win. The sixty-year-old former interior minister is aiming for outright victory in the first round — something that no candidate has done before. Hes focussing on security and education. Over 7 million people are eligible...

Touadera favourite as troubled Central Africa heads to vote 346 Central African Republic head to the polls on Sunday, with incumbent President Faustin Archange Touadera on course to win a second term in an impoverished country haunted by violence. In the week before voting day, Touadera accused his predecessor Francois Bozize of plotting a coup, a militia briefly seized the country’s fourth biggest town, and Russia and Rwanda sent military personnel to help shore up his government. On Wednesd...

The troubled Central African Republic (CAR), which elects a president on Sunday just over a week after an alleged coup attempt, has been mired in violence for more than seven years.

Seven troops, 11 terrorists killed in Niger ahead of vote AFP 25th December, 2020 12:24:16 Seven troops and 11 suspected jihadists have died in clashes in a troubled western region of Niger ahead of elections this weekend, the defence ministry said Thursday. An army patrol in the Taroun area in the Tillaberi region was ambushed early Monday morning by "heavily armed terrorists" travelling aboard motorbikes and other vehicles, it said in a statement, using a term that typically denotes jihadists...

Seven troops and 11 suspected jihadists have died in clashes in a troubled western region of Niger ahead of elections this weekend, the defence ministry said Thursday.