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Vietnam’s new PM to expand Comprehensive Strategic Partnership with India SECTIONS Share Synopsis Indias assistance to Vietnam cover initiatives such as Quick Impact Projects (QIPs), ITEC and e-ITEC initiatives, PhD fellowships, as well as projects in water resource management in Vietnams Mekong Delta region, SDGs, digital connectivity, and heritage conservation. India’s is currently implementing a $100-mn defence line of credit for Vietnam. Guest Contributor Chinh, born in 1961, is a membe...

SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Apr 13 2021 (IPS) - US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has urged all governments to support a global minimum corporate tax rate of at least 21%. The US is working with other G20 nations to get other countries to end the “thirty-year race to the bottom on corporate tax rates”. Anis Chowdhury Corporate tax vital For Yellen, “governments [should] have stable tax systems that raise sufficient revenue to invest in essential public goods and respond to crises, and that...

Yves here. Lynn Fries and her guest Richard Kozul-Wright, chief economist at UNCTAD, look at the prospects for the global economy after Covid and aren’t keen about what they see. The off and on recovery has benefitted the rich and left the poor behind, for the same reasons that the aftermath of global financial increased inequality: policymakers don’t want to change a hyper-financialized system. Even though a growing number of economists and commentators share this high-level view, Konzul-W...

A Wine Country city has a segregation problem FacebookTwitterEmail St. Helena is a city of 6,100 people in an area with more than 400 vineyards. It’s also where housing policies have concentrated Latino residents on the east side while a more affluent, white majority lives on the west side.Josie Norris / The Chronicle 2019 Marcus Kirkwood was riding his bike through St. Helena last month when he noticed a man take a photo of him from the sidewalk. Kirkwood at first wrote it off as poor timing...

Who is Dr Indermit Gill, new VP of EFI at World Bank Dr Gill has replaced M. Ahyan Kose and his appointment will be effective from June 1, 2021 BusinessToday.In | April 10, 2021 | Updated 09:22 IST Dr Indermit Gill (Image: Twitter) The World Bank appointed an Indian national Dr Indermit Gill as the Vice President for the Equitable Growth, Finance and Institutions (EFI) Global Practice Group. Dr Gill has replaced M. Ahyan Kose and his appointment will be effective from June 1, 2021. Dr Gill is...

Pakistan to Seek Fresh COVID Relief Package from IMF: Imran Khan Courtesy PID In address at launch of UNDP Human Development Report, prime minister reiterates lifting people out of poverty is among government’s topmost concerns Prime Minister Imran Khan on Tuesday announced plans to approach the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for a fresh COVID-19 relief package, noting that the ongoing third wave of the pandemic had proven disastrous for Pakistan’s services sector. “We are going to spe...

Date Time UNESCO launches 2021 survey on public access to information Using Sustainable development indicator 16.10.2, the new survey will track progress on how states are adopting and implementing legally binding guarantees for public access to information. The 2021 survey on Access to Information will be launched during the World Bank online consultation for the next “World Development Report 2021: Data for Better Lives”. Previous surveys by UNESCO have raised awareness that states as the...

Gender Equality in STEM for a better tomorrow UAE Minister of State for Advanced Sciences Sarah bint Yousif Al Amir speaks during an event to mark Hope Probes entering the orbit of Mars, in Dubai. Photo-Arabian Business, July 2020 BEIJING, Apr 6 2021 (IPS) - Women hold up half the sky. Some years ago, Sarah al-Amiri, a young Emirati engineer, had a fixed gaze beyond the sky and towards our galaxy. “Space was a sector that we never dared to dream growing up,” she noted. Fast forward and al...

'Jumpstarting a green recovery with more decent jobs, and healthy and resilient societies, is crucial to building back better and greener'

  New York: With over 2.6 million dead and 117 million infections, no country in the world has remained untouched by COVID-19. Yet one year on from the declaration of the pandemic by the World Health Organization, evidence shows that crisis-affected countries have been especially hard-hit by the secondary impacts of the crisis, including rising poverty rates, a rise in domestic and other forms of violence and an erosion of trust between citizens and state. In response, United Nations Developme...