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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...

Amidst the Covid pandemic, two recently published reports did not receive the attention they normally do. The first is UNDP’s Human Development Report (HDR), published annually at this time of the year. In something like the HDR, reportage invariably focuses on India’s rank as determined by HDI (index based on life expectancy at birth, school indicators and purchasing power parity-based per capita income). Data is available with a lag for variables included in HDI computations as well as ot...

1 in 5 South Africans Are Living in Extreme Poverty: UN Report Meanwhile, the country’s wealthiest 10% own more than half the national income. Why Global Citizens Should Care South Africa is grappling with great inequalities, which contribute to extreme poverty. The United Nations’ 17 Global Goals together work towards ending extreme poverty and its systemic causes.. Yet these goals can only be achieved if unequal countries like South Africa come to terms with serious inequalities and work...

Comments The United Nations has ranked Ireland second in the world in quality of life in its annual Human Development Report ranking of 189 countries.  The new rankings have placed Ireland above Germany (6), Sweden (7), Australia (8), Denmark (10), the United Kingdom (13), and the United States (17).  Read more The rankings are based on life expectancy at birth, expected years of schooling, and gross national income (GNI) per capita, which are used to calculate a countrys Human Develo...

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has been a pioneer in terms of developing the Human Development Index (HDI), which is a more balanced way of measuring human development that goes beyond traditional, simple economic indicators of Gross Domestic Product (GDP). They have also been publishing an annual Human Development Report (HDR) which tracks every countrys HDI each year. Each years report also has a theme to it, and the 2015 HDR was on the theme of Climate Change and Human Devel...

NEW DELHI: Even as 76.7% women in India had their own bank accounts or used mobile money services in the 12 months preceding 2017, gender based violence continues to impact a significant number with 28.8% women of 15 years and above facing physical or sexual violence at the hands of an intimate partner, according to the Human Development Report 2020. A comparison with other countries over the reference period from 2005-2019 shows that as far as intimate partner violence goes among India’s im...

Human Development Index: Bangladesh goes two notches up, 5th in South Asia Photo: Mohiuddin Alamgir Bangladesh moved up two notches in the Human Development Index -- to 133 -- compared to last year. It remains fifth among the eight South Asian countries covered in the report but bounced up nine notches in the new planetary pressures-adjusted human development index (PHDI), said The Human Development Report (HDR) 2020 of United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). The report, titled The Next F...

HDR 2020 indicates uneven road to women empowerment in India © Provided by The Times of India NEW DELHI: Even as 76.7% women in India had their own bank accounts or used mobile money services in the 12 months preceding 2017, gender based violence continues to impact a significant number with 28.8% women of 15 years and above facing physical or sexual violence at the hands of an intimate partner, according to the Human Development Report 2020. A comparison with other countries over the referen...

WHO Director-Generals opening remarks at the media briefing on COVID-19 - 21 December 2020 Format In the past few days, there have been reports of new variants of the COVID-19 virus in South Africa and the UK. Viruses mutate over time; that’s natural and expected. WHO is working with scientists to understand how these genetic changes affect how the virus behaves. In early 2021, 4.6 billion U.S. dollars in additional funding will be needed to purchase COVID-19 vaccines for at least 20% of the ...