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Mark Duddridge, chair of Cornwall and Isles of Scilly LEP Businesses in Cornwall are facing a financial cliff edge and job losses because of the global pandemic and will require more support as they cope with the national lockdown. This was the gloomy picture painted by Mark Duddridge, chair of the Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP), who warned that businesses were facing “a financial cliff edge and job losses” as a result of the new restrictions. Speaking...

African countries show mixed progress towards poverty reduction and half of them have an extreme poverty rate above 35% Figure 1 Poverty rates at the US$1.90 line, lined up estimates for 2017 : Nigeria (79 million), the Democratic Republic of Congo (60 million), Tanzania (28 million), Ethiopia (26 million), and Madagascar (20 million). Figure 1 shows the distribution of the extreme poor across African economies. Nigeria has the largest poor population in Sub-Saharan Africa (79 million extreme p...

Published on: Saturday, December 19, 2020 By: David Thien Professor Kassim Kota Kinabalu: The Internet outage suffered by UMS Professor Datuk Kassim Mansur when presenting his input online recently for the 12th Malaysia Plan at the “Stakeholder Engagement Forum 2020” was an example of how unstable Sabah’s broadband could be and still is affecting thousands of students in their online studies in the state due to Covid-19 lockdown. ADVERTISEMENT The virtual event was organised by Institute ...

Published on: Saturday, December 19, 2020 By: David Thien Professor Kassim Kota Kinabalu: The Internet outage suffered by UMS Professor Datuk Kassim Mansur when presenting his input online recently for the 12th Malaysia Plan at the “Stakeholder Engagement Forum 2020” was an example of how unstable Sabah’s broadband could be and still is affecting thousands of students in their online studies in the state due to Covid-19 lockdown. ADVERTISEMENT The virtual event was organised by Institute ...

The number of poor people continues to rise in Sub-Saharan Africa, despite a slow decline in the poverty rate The Poverty and Shared Prosperity report 2020 shows that the number of poor has also increased at the US$3.20 and US$5.50 lines. While the poverty rate has decreased at the three lines between 1990 and 2018, the number of poor has increased (Figure 1). Poverty reduction has been much slower at the higher lines: between 1990 and 2018 the poverty rate fell 15 percentage points at the US$...

KUALA LUMPUR (Dec 17): The Covid-19 pandemic has forced the government to go back to the drawing board when it comes to the 12th Malaysia Plan (12MP). Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department (Economy) Datuk Seri Mustapa Mohamed said at the World Bank Group’s launch of the latest Malaysia Economic Monitor that the pandemic led to the government delaying the tabling of the economic development blueprint to early next year from the initially scheduled Aug 6 this year. “In respect to the ...

U.S. Mission to Moldova: Support for Independent Media and Citizen’s Engagement 165SHARES Deadline: 30-Jun-21 The Public Affairs Section at the U.S. Embassy Chisinau (PAS) invites proposals for projects that countering foreign malign influence, supporting independent voices, enhancing media sustainability, and strengthening civil society. PAS invites proposals for projects that strengthen ties between the United States and Moldova, through academic, cultural, and exchange programs that highli...

4. 12. 2020 Minister of Foreign Affairs Anže Logar is today attending the international video-conference Rome MED 2020 – Mediterranean Dialogues, held this year under the title Heal and Rebuild: A Positive Agenda for the EU in the Enlarged Mediterranean. The Minister took part in a panel session with the foreign ministers of Italy, Portugal, Croatia, and Greece. In his address, he stressed the importance of partnership between the European Union and neighbouring countries in the field of mig...

Image The New Poor Over the past 12 months, the pandemic has harmed the poor and vulnerable the most, and it is threatening to push millions more into poverty. This year, after decades of steady progress in reducing the number of people living on less than $1.90/day, COVID-19 will usher in the first reversal in the fight against extreme poverty in a generation. In a worst-case scenario, the figure could be as high as 115 million. The World Bank Group forecasts that the largest share of the ...

Sub-Saharan Africa shows largest overlaps between monetary and non-monetary poverty Poverty is a complex and multifaceted phenomenon. When poor people are asked in participatory studies what makes them feel poor, they indicate a wide range of deprivations: not having enough to eat, having inadequate housing material, being sick, having limited or no formal education, having no work, and living in unsafe neighborhoods. Multidimensional poverty measures, such as the Global MPI produced by UNDP a...