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Shockingly, the report notes that while Canada ranked 12th on the HDI ­internationally in 2016, the Registered Indian population as a whole would have ranked 52nd out of 189 countries (the same as Bulgaria, Montenegro and Romania that year), while the on-reserve population ranked 78th, the same as Grenada and about the same as Thailand, Brazil or Colombia. So it is more than a bit ironic that in his Dec. 2 speech on the state of the planet, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres discussed the...

ISSUE DATE: January 25, 2021 UPDATED: January 17, 2021 09:57 IST Q. What are the three key measures you would like to see in the Union budget that will drive growth, given that the economy is in recession? A. ADITI NAYAR: Prioritisation of capital expenditure, especially projects already identified in the National Infrastructure Pipeline (NIP), and where the plans are at an advanced stage, will help to create a multiplier effect and boost the tentative economic revival. Secondly, an adequate b...

We are at an unprecedented moment in the history of humankind and in the history of our planet. Warning lights - for our societies and the planet - are flashing red.

One recent UN report helps us chart this new course, in part by addressing one of the challenges Mr. Guterres noted: “More and more people are recognizing the limits of conventional yardsticks such as Gross Domestic Product, in which environmentally damaging activities count as economic positives.” The UN Development Programme’s Human Development Report began in 1990 “precisely as a counterpoint to myopic definitions of development,” as the 2020 report puts it. Specifically, it off...

On January 1, Portugal took over the rotating six-month presidency of the European Union, and announced : to promote Europe’s recovery from the pandemic, its programmes for social solidarity, and its “strategic autonomy.” Important for success is a focus on research careers, and on strengthening the European Research Area – a set of policies promoting cooperation and mobility of ideas and researchers across the EU. So argues Manuel Heitor, Portuguese minister for science, technology a...

UNDP Resident Coordinator Robert Jukham presented a copy of the UNDP Human Development Report 2020 to Foreign Minister Dinesh Gunawardena on 5 January 2021 at the Foreign Ministry. Foreign Minister Gunawardena appreciated the UNDP’s cooperation with Sri Lanka and expressed his appreciation of UNDP’s response to Covid-19 early interventions. He mentioned that free education and health policies of Sri Lanka, among other things, have significantly contributed to the country’s achievements in...

The gap between India’s potential and reality is reflected by the fact that the India Story continues to be defined, quote-unquote ‘emerging’ for three decades since 1991. India’s $ 2.8 trillion economy is at an inflection point. Hindsight, they say is 2020 and the year has many lessons. Here are five takeaways for Budget 2021. Invest in Human Capital: India’s strength is the scale of 1.3 billion aspirations. Yet, successive regimes have flailed at investing in developing human capita...

ESG ratings dont mean what you think 3 Loose framework for granting high ESG ratings creates false impression published : 26 Dec 2020 at 04:04 PTTEPs Bongkot offshore gas block in the Gulf of Thailand. Environmental, social and governance (ESG) ratings and sustainability stock indices based on ESG scoring have become the hot new trend among retail and institutional investors, allowing them to evaluate companies based on sustainability and so...