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Sursa foto: AstraZeneca A number of 103,200 doses of AstraZeneca vaccine will arrive on Thursday at the "Cantacuzino" National Institute for Medical-Military Development Research, informs a press release of the National Coordinating Committee for Vaccination Activities against COVID-19. According to the quoted source, the transport is provided by the manufacturing company, and the vaccine doses will be brought to Bucharest by land. Doses will be stored at the National Storage Center of the Cant...

March 1, 2021 "[T]he pandemic has revealed the need to develop resilient and sustainable systems and economies that leverage digital technologies as a tool for youth empowerment" On the African continent, where almost 60% of people are under the age of 25, the COVID-19 crisis has exacerbated preexisting inequalities, deepening young peoples intersecting vulnerabilities. Despite the fact that many of them live in hard-to-reach areas with no access to electricity, you...

The Indian central bank’s conventional as well as unconventional policy responses to support the economy through the pandemic failed to reduce the government’s borrowing costs by a lot, says a new study. Policy actions by the Reserve Bank of India have had only a modest impact on the ‘term premium’ –- an indicator of the market’s expectations of future interest rates, according to the research authored by Rajeswari Sengupta of the RBI-funded Indira Gandhi Institute of Development ...

Menu Written by diliaurPosted on March 3, 2021 The Pacific Islands Development Program (PIDP) and the East-West Center (EWC) are pleased to launch the Development Research for Oceania Pipeline (DROP) program, funded by the Asian Development Bank (ADB). The purpose of DROP is to increase awareness and understanding of the development challenges of the Pacific. This program was established to provide support for graduate (Master and Doctoral) thesis and dissertation research related to p...

How can we improve the quality of big data for development economics research? Experiences from traditional data collection can help! Motivation While the companies collecting these data often do internal quality assessments, repurposing big data for economics research typically requires additional quality checks to account for the fact that the data were not purpose-built to answer the specific research questions in mind. Therefore, quality assurance done by data scientists (e.g., the data qua...

Amir Ullah Khan and Anjana Divakar India’s economy has been among the fastest growing economies in the world, at least till 2016 and, one of its major

Transforming agri-food systems is powerful lever for achieving global goals In address to Rome’s storied Lincei science institute, FAO Director-General QU outlines Four Betters approach, calls for holistic and systemic thinking 25 February 2021, Rome - A holistic redesign of the worlds agri-food systems can make outsized contributions to achieving global pledges such as ending hunger by 2030, FAO Director-General QU Dongyu said in a keynote lecture at Italys historic Accademia Nazionale dei L...

Transforming agri-food systems is powerful lever for achieving global goals Format In address to Rome’s storied Lincei science institute, FAO Director-General QU outlines Four Betters approach, calls for holistic and systemic thinking 25 February 2021, Rome - A holistic redesign of the worlds agri-food systems can make outsized contributions to achieving global pledges such as ending hunger by 2030, FAO Director-General QU Dongyu said in a keynote lecture at Italys historic Accademia Nazional...

Growth momentum needs to be strengthened: RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das RBI Governor’s Shaktikanta Das: Depositors’ money topmost priority, even as one-time rollover for businesses is considered PTI The growth momentum needs to be strengthened for a sustained revival of the economy and quick return to the pre-COVID trajectory, opined RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das while pitching for a status quo on rates at the last meeting of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC). All the six members of...

The market research report provides detailed analysis of market drivers, challenges, opportunity analysis, and trend BriefingWire.com, 2/23/2021 - Facto Market Insights recently published market research study on the Global LOCK WASHER Market (2021-2029) to its own collection of research reports. The study report covers detailed analysis of market sizing and forecasting of the market covering the market drivers, challenges, opportunity analysis, and tendencies, ...