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Pig farmers script success story in State Updated: Updated: Pig population has shot up by 86.19% over a seven-year period Share Article Pig population has shot up by 86.19% over a seven-year period They may not be as popular as cattle or poultry yet, but pigs — numbers indicate — are increasingly hogging the attention of livestock farmers in Kerala who have come to appreciate their worth as money-spinners. The pig population in the State has shot up by 86.19% over a seven-year period, rev...

Director, Development Data Group, The World Bank Group Haishan Fu is the Director of the World Bank’s Development Data Group and Co-Chair of the Bank’s Development Data Council. In this capacity Haishan leads and coordinates the development and implementation of the Bank’s development data agenda. She has been an active leader in the global statistical community, having served or currently serving as a member of the UN Secretary General’s Independent Expert Advisory Group on Data Revolu...

Director, United Nations Statistics Division Stefan Schweinfest was appointed Director of the Statistics Division (UNSD/DESA) in July 2014. Under his leadership, the Division compiles and disseminates global statistical information, develops standards and norms for statistical activities including the integration of geospatial, statistical and other information, and supports countries efforts to strengthen their national statistical and geospatial systems. As the Director of the Statistics Div...

January 11, 2021 High table of the workshop Statistics Sierra Leone’s 2019 Demographic Health Survey (DHS) indicates that infant and under-5 mortality levels have consistently decreased from 92 to 75 and from 156 to 122 deaths per 1,000 live births respectively. The above was disclosed in a workshop held with journalists at the Statistic Sierra Leone Headquarters,A.J Momoh Street, in a bid to popularizing the 2019 Demographic Health Survey. Director of Demographic Health and Social Statistics...

National January 8, 2021 ISLAMABAD: Minister for Information and Broadcasting Senator Shibli Faraz Thursday said providing relief to the people was the top priority of the PTI government. He said this during his visit to the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS), where he was given briefing on the fluctuations in the prices of essential commodities by the officials of the Statistics Division. The minister was told that in the light of Prime Minister Imran Khan’s vision, work on ‘Centralized ...

National January 8, 2021 ISLAMABAD: Minister for Information and Broadcasting Senator Shibli Faraz Thursday said providing relief to the people was the top priority of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government. He said this during his visit to the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS), where he was given briefing on the fluctuations in the prices of essential commodities by the officials of the Statistics Division. The minister was told that in the light of Prime Minister Imran Khans vision,...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Colorado employers received important guidance from the state on December 23, 2020 that clarifies how paid leave rules will apply in 2021. The Colorado Department of Labor and Employment’s Division of Labor Standards and Statistics (Division) adopted temporary or emergency rules that clarify a few points related to the Healthy Families and Workplaces Act (HFWA). On the same day, the Division also issued an Interpretive Notice & Form...

As various global restrictions related to the COVID-19 pandemic continue, so do disruptions to the operations of National Statistical Offices. This comes at a time when data remain key to inform evidence-based policymaking that addresses the manifold public health, economic, and social challenges countries face. To understand these new challenges and NSOs’ needs, the Statistics Division of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs and the World Banks Development Data Grou...

How do you use technology/policy to improve citizens’ lives? Tell us about your role or organisation. I am heading the Statistics Division of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP). ESCAP is part of the United Nations (UN) secretariat. We work with 58 Asia-Pacific countries and territories on their aspirations to improve peoples’ lives through the delivery of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development – the universal plan adopted by 193 countries in 2015 to a...

University of Nairobi don wins prestigious World Trade Organization award