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Coordinated efforts needed for compliance of UNCRC Islamabad April 20, 2021 Islamabad : Society for the Protection of the Rights of the Child (SPARC) held a consultation on ‘30 Years of Advocacy on United Nations Conventions on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC)’ here on Monday, says a press release. National Commission on the Rights of Child (NCRC) Chairperson Afshan Tehseen Bajwa shared that NCRC has been set up to make recommendations for effective implementation of policies related to ch...

Salon Chairs Market -Top Companies, COVID-19 Impact, Regional Demand and Future Development Research The report includes porters Five Forces Analysis (potential entrants, industry competitors, suppliers, substitutes, and buyers), SWOT analysis and BPS analysis for every segment that provides crucial information BriefingWire.com, 4/20/2021 - Facto Market Insights as of late distributed statistical surveying report on the worldwide Salon Chairs mar...

Coordinated Efforts required for compliance of UNCRC: Chairperson NCRC - ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: The Society for the Protection of the Rights of the Child (SPARC) held a consultation on “30 Years of Advocacy on United Nations Conventions on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC)” in Islamabad on Monday. The Chairperson National Commission on the Rights of Child (NCRC) Afshan Tehseen Bajwa shared that the NCRC has been set up to make recommendations for effective implementation of policies related to ...

5 min read Poor funding is the major reason Nigeria failed to meet the pledge it made in 2012 to achieve a modern contraceptive prevalence rate (MCPR) of 27 per cent among women by 202O, health experts have said. The family planning (FP) 2020 goal was to enable 120 million additional women and girls of reproductive age, globally, to have access to contraceptives by the year 2020. At the dawn of the deadline, the FP 2020 target indicators show that Nigeria has only 12 per cent MC...

The UWI Seismic Research Centre provides ongoing support to Saint Vincent as La Soufriere volcano moves to Explosive Phase Format Media Release Courtesy The UWI Seismic Research Centre Friday, April 9, 2021 — The UWI St. Augustine, Trinidad & Tobago — On April 9, at 8:41 am, an eruption column (cloud of ash) began rising above the La Soufrière volcano located in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. This signalled that the volcano moved to an explosive phase following three months of effusive ...

Summary One of the key drivers of economic recovery in India will be the efficient movement of capital from inefficient firms to efficient ones. The economic downturn caused by the coronavirus pandemic has been severe, and India’s economy was one of the worst affected in 2020–2021. Though the economy is recovering faster than initial estimates, sustained economic recovery will not take place if stressed businesses cannot restructure their debts properly or if failing firms cannot be resolve...

In the post-pandemic world, addressing inequality is key to sustaining growth and well-being COVID-19 in the last one year has once again reminded us of the growing inequalities in India. A recent Pew Research Report shows that India’s middle class may have shrunk by a third due to the novel coronavirus pandemic while the number of poor people earning less than ₹150 per day more than doubled. The Pew report also warned that the situation may actually be worse than estimated because of worse...

Introducing our newly hired researchers: part 2 of 3 We continue our series of highlighting our recently recruited researchers. Today we cover researchers who work on the environment, infrastructure and sustainability, and on poverty and public economics – noting again that these labels do not cover the full range of topics being studied. Environment, Infrastructure and Sustainability Gabriel Englander studies how policy and illegal behavior affect wildlife conservation. He hopes to provide ...

Weekly links March 12: Even more DiD, deforestation lowers productivity, how to procrastinate productively, and more… ·       A couple of follow-ups to Scott Cunningham’s Mixtape book. First, Thomas Caputo has created python code for the book (to complement the Stata and R code already available). Second, Scott has started a substack he is calling the Remix, which will have deep dives into more methods papers – starting with a discussion of the Callaway and Sant’anna difference-i...

Access to reproductive health services is a matter of 'life and death' for millions of women and girls, UN chief warns