Beijing says it has met its goal of wiping out extreme poverty in China by the end of 2020. The top-down effort has disrupted untold individual lives.
China, along with Thailand and some other developing Asian countries that are aging fast, faces what economists call the challenge of whether it can grow rich before it grows old. Some forecasters warn that China faces a “demographic time bomb.”
Reflecting the issue’s sensitivity, the statistics agency took the unusual step last month of announcing that the population grew in 2020 but gave no total. That looked like an effort to calm companies and investors after the Financial Times reported that the census might have found a surprise decline.
Islamabad
May 8, 2021
Islamabad : Lessons learnt from Ehsaas are relevant beyond Pakistan s national borders, said SAPM on Poverty Alleviation and Social Safety Division Dr Sania Nishtar while addressing UN-ECOSOC Development Cooperation Forum 2021 as keynote speaker.
Pakistan’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Munir Akram in his capacity as the President of United Nations’ Department for Economic and Social Affairs (UN-ECOSOC) convened the 7th biennial high-level Development Cooperation Forum (DCF).
The DCF is the principal global platform for policy dialogue on development cooperation. The DCF aimed to advance international development cooperation that reduces risk, enables recovery and builds resilience in the COVID-19 period and beyond. The insightful session engaged thought leaders in a discussion of how to reinvigorate development cooperation, rethinking old approaches and debates and moving decisively into the new Decade of Action.
National
May 8, 2021
Islamabad: Lessons learnt from Ehsaas are relevant beyond Pakistan s national borders, said SAPM on Poverty Alleviation and Social Safety Division Dr Sania Nishtar while addressing UN-ECOSOC Development Cooperation Forum 2021 as keynote speaker.
Pakistan’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Munir Akram in his capacity as the President of United Nations’ Department for Economic and Social Affairs (UN-ECOSOC) convened the 7th biennial high-level Development Cooperation Forum (DCF).
The DCF is the principal global platform for policy dialogue on development cooperation. The DCF aimed to advance international development cooperation that reduces risk, enables recovery and builds resilience in the COVID-19 period and beyond. The insightful session engaged thought leaders in a discussion of how to reinvigorate development cooperation, rethinking old approaches and debates and moving decisively into the new Decade of Action.
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OPINION
Workers prepare foodstuff for beneficiaries at a food distribution center supported by the World Food Program in Sanaa, Yemen June 3, 2020. [Reuters, Khaled Abdullah]
As the country engages all gears towards the containment of the Covid-19 pandemic, one critical pillar of human survival needs to remain clear in our sight – food security.
This, for any nation, is a situation that brings immense pride to a people and which can be achieved through hard work.
Kenya, as is the rest of the world, is working towards attainment of the Sustainable Development Goal 2: End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture.