02/18/2021 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 02/18/2021 08:00
With regional and international support: ESCWA & the Saudi Program Push for a Unified Development Vision for Arab LDCs in the 2021-2030 Decade
The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), with support from Saudi Arabia, held today a regional meeting, the first of its kind, gathering government representatives from Mauritania, Somalia, the Sudan and Yemen with regional and international donors, to launch the first regional dialogue on the new programme of action for Arab least developed countries (LDCs) up to 2030, which will be discussed in January 2022 at the Fifth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries (LDC5).
1 month ago
Let us stop our poor way of thinking. For starters, our country has rare earth deposits. How much do our public coffers benefit from our country having it. Know that developed countries are starting to realise that this is a very strategically important material. What have we done about this and which Malawian entity is mining these rare earth deposits?
They should be strategically important to us also. These are jobs being exported.
Alex mgeni
1 month ago
@donda WA donda. Osamakhala ndi nsanje. The problem we are in requires proper and thoughtful solutions and not just firing pipo or hiring new personnel. In my view, let’s examine the whole system.. Do a functional review first. Do we need some of these positions? What staffing levels, job loading etc…. We may end up scrapping up some entirely and may be adding zina…… Then we look at prevailing technological advances. HOW DO WE BRING INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INTO DEVELOPMENT PLANNING???? councils have huge gap
The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), with support from Saudi Arabia, held today a regional meeting, the first of.
Customs duty standardisation on edible oils, pulses: Much to learn from developed nations
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The Union Budget, tabled in Parliament by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on February 1, has standardised at a lower level different rates of customs duty on various vegetable oils and pulses.
The basic customs duty is now 15 per cent ad valorem for all varieties of cooking oil (palm, soya, sun, etc), while pulses the duty is 10 per cent ad valorem (desi chickpea, kabuli chickpea, lentil, etc).
For pulses, the WTO bound rate of duty is 100 per cent for all types of pulses except peas for which it is 50 per cent. However, the applied rate on chickpea (
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