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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...

State fragility in Burkina Faso: Analysis and Policy Brief Format Executive Summary For decades, the land-locked country of Burkina Faso has avoided the exogenous shocks and internal conflicts that have plagued so many of its neighbors. As a result, authoritarian rule has overseen the informal social systems primarily responsible for steady incremental increases in Burkinabé capacity. In 2014, a groundswell of democracy overtook the country, and the advent of civilian leadership signaled that ...

India Has 8.6 Doctors, 5 Hospital Beds For Every 10,000 Population: Human Development Report India is ranked 155th in the index Representational Image Outlook Web Bureau 2020-12-18T07:10:33+05:30 India Has 8.6 Doctors, 5 Hospital Beds For Every 10,000 Population: Human Development Report outlookindia.com 2020-12-18T07:11:47+05:30 The ongoing pandemic has exposed how ill-equipped is the medical infrastructure in India. In the initial days of the outbreak of Covid-...

Mona Hanna-Attisha, MD, MPH, FAAP is founder and director of the Michigan State University and Hurley Children’s Hospital Pediatric Public Health Initiative, an innovative and model public health program in Flint, Michigan. A pediatrician, scientist, activist and author, Dr. Hanna-Attisha has testified three times before the United States Congress, awarded the Freedom of Expression Courage Award by PEN America, named one of Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World, and most ...

  BEVERLY — Kenann McKenzie will represent Ward 2 on the School Committee after the City Council and the School Committee unanimously voted for her during a rare joint meeting on Thursday night. McKenzie, who lives on Webber Avenue, will take over the seat which is opening up due to the upcoming resignation of current School Committee Member Kelley Feretti on Jan. 1. Ferretti announced in September that she would step down due to a "lack of respect and professionalism" on the School Com...

The Jakarta Post/Jakarta Indian environmental activist Vandana Shiva once told a public forum that the words “ecology” and “economy” were actually rooted in the same ancient Greek word: “oikos”, which could refer to a household, house or family. While we are striving for human development index betterment through our economic activities, it is also essential for us to be mindful that we do not run our planet Earth into overdrive. Being mindful of the need to achieve this balance, th...

Norway Voted Best Country In The World For Quality Of Life by : Niamh Shackleton on : 18 Dec 2020 18:19 Pixabay/PA Images Norway has been voted as the best country in the world for quality of life according to United Nation’s latest Human Development Index (HDI) ranking. Neither the UK or the US came in the top ten while Norway has remained in the top spot for several years. Advert 10 The HDI ranks a country depending on its life expectancy, expected years of schooling, mean years of schoolin...

Among 189 countries, India goes down one rank in Human Development Index to 131 ANI | Updated: Dec 17, 2020 22:56 IST New Delhi [India], December 17 (ANI): Out of 189 countries, India went down one rank to 131 in the United Nations Development Programmes (UNDP) Human Development Index (HDI) in 2020. Indias rank in 2018 was 130. Indias Human Development Index (HDI) value for 2019 stood at 0.645, putting the country in the medium human development category. ...

G Plus News | December 17, 2020 11:22 hrs India has been ranked 131 in the United Nations Development Programmes (UNDP) Human Development Index. India has slipped two places from the previous report. Last year Indias ranking was 129. India is behind its neighbours Sri Lanka and China, who are ranked at 72 and 85 respectively. Meanwhile, it is ahead of Bangladesh and Pakistan, which are ranked at 133 and 154 respectively.  Norway has topped the index, followed by Ir eland and Switzerland, Hong ...

Originally published on December 17, 2020 2:09 pm The fight against COVID-19 entered a new phase this week as American health care workers started getting vaccinated — the first in what will be a massive effort. Science writer Ed Yong of The Atlantic says the coming months will usher in the most complicated immunization program the U.S. has ever attempted. "Its going to be a slow process, and there are a lot of possible roadblocks in the way in terms of producing the vaccine, distributing i...