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March 26, 2021 last updated 15:12 ET The Dave Johnson coal-fired power plant is silhouetted against the morning sun in Glenrock, Wyo., July 27, 2018 (AP photo by J. David Ake) It’s Time for a New Concept of Development Adapted to the Anthropocene Humanity is at war with the living planet, endangering our prosperity and indeed our very survival on Earth. That is the stark message of the 30th Human Development Report, “The Next Frontier: Human Development and th...

One in five South Africans now lives on less than R28 a day, the UN finds  Dec 20, 2020, 10:12 AM facebook Approximately 18.9% of the population survives off less than R27.66 a day. The country is still regarded as the most unequal in the world, the wealthiest 10% of the population holding more than half the nation’s income. For more articles, go to www.BusinessInsider.co.za. South Africa remains one of the most unequal countries in the world, according to the gl...

: Monday, December 21, 2020, 2:30 AM IST V-shaped recovery anticipated, but its the human capital base of economy that needs care, Ajit Ranade points out poshan.outlook.india.com Macroeconomic winds are blowing favourably as we enter the New Year. Stock markets are at an all-time high. Share price indices are up nearly 60 per cent from their lows of March. The stock market is supposed to be a harbinger of economic times to come, so clearly it is indicating a strong revival. Liquidity in the ba...

Bold steps required to ease planetary pressure – UNDP Report The COVID-19 pandemic is the latest crisis facing the world. Unless humans release their grip on nature, it won’t be the last, according to a new report by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), which includes a new experimental index on human progress that takes into account countries’ carbon dioxide emissions and material footprint. The 30th anniversary edition of the Human Development Report, ‘The Next Frontier: H...

ON THE GO Kashimawo Laloko, ex-NFF director, dies at 76 Kashimawo Laloko, former technical director of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), is dead.Advertisement The 76-year-old was said to have died at Sacred Hearts catholic hospital in Abeokuta on Sunday, after... Resident doctors threaten fresh strike over unpaid salaries The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has threatened to embark on an indefinite strike on April 1, if members owed salaries and allowances...

The Edition Maldives’ choice for next frontier of human development Joint opinion editorial by UNDP Maldives Resident Representative Akiko Fujii, Minister of Economic Development Fayyaz Ismail, and Minister of Fisheries, Marine Resources, and Agriculture Zaha Waheed 18 December 2020, MVT 09:40 According to this year’s UNDP Human Development Report (HDR), Maldives has the highest material footprint per person in the South Asia region, which at 14.5 tonnes even surpasses the world average of ...

Graphic Online BY: Edward Acquah & Felicia Kwarteng Category: General News Ms Angela Lusigi (middle) with Prof. Samuel Kobina Annim (right) and Prof. Chris Gordon (left), an environmental scientist, after the launch. Picture: NII MARTEY M. BOTCHWAY 30.5k Shares 705 Ghana has moved up four places on the latest United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Human Development Index (HDI). From the previous 142nd position in 2018 to the new 138th in 2019, out of 189 countries, Ghana’s HDI value al...

HDR 2020: Kill the Earth, it’ll get you December 18, 2020, 11:21 PM IST Quick takes, analyses and macro-level views on all contemporary economic, financial and political events. India has dropped a place in the 2020 edition of the United Nations’ Human Development Index (HDI). It is not that conditions in India have deteriorated but that it has not improved while other countries have progressed. The Human Development Report (HDR) 2020’s focus on h...

  Ghana has moved up four places on the latest United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Human Development Index (HDI). From the previous 142nd position in 2018 to the new 138th in 2019, out of 189 countries, Ghana’s HDI value also increased from 0.465 points to 0.611 points between 1990 and 2019, representing a 31.4 per cent increment. The HDI is an average measure of basic human development achievements in a country which assesses long-term progress in three basic dimensions of human dev...

VP Igga urges fight against corruption, says it affects human development VP Dr. Ja,es Wani Igga addressing the launch of the Human Development Annual Report 2020 in Juba on 16 Dec. 2020. [Photo: UNDP] The Vice President for Economic cluster Dr. James Wani Igga has called for the strengthening of anti-corruption institutions in the fight against what he calls, the financial pandemic, corruption in South Sudan. Speaking during the launch of the Human Development Annual Report 2020 in Juba on Wed...