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PETALING JAYA: Malaysia moved up a rank on the United Nations Human Development Index (HDI) 2020 to be 62 out of 189 countries in the index measuring human progress and well-being. Additionally, Malaysia's HDI value is 0.810 this year, which is above the average 0.747 value recorded in the East Asia and the Pacific region. The improvement in the ranking has been attributed to Malaysia’s increase in average life expectancy to 76.2 years (76 previously) and its increase in Gross National Income per capita to USD 27,534 or RM111,554 (which was USD 27,227 or RM110,310 previously). However, Mala...

11th December 2020 Botswana has, through the Department of Meteorological Services (DMS), promised to maintain the target of 15 per cent reduction of emission of Green House Gases (GHG) into the atmosphere. In 2015 countries outlined what climate actions they intended to take under the new international agreement, known as their Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs). These determine whether the world achieves the long-term goals of the Paris Agreement: to hold the increase in global average temperature to well below two degrees Celsius, to pursue efforts to limit the increase t...

The 2020 African Economic Conference ended on an upbeat note on Thursday as the continent’s leading researchers, economists and other experts called for a united approach to beating the COVID-19 pandemic. The meeting called on the private sector to take up the opportunity to fill the gap to direct investments to meet the critical needs of the continent. “Though it has been challenging, COVID-19 has given Africa the opportunity to rethink development paradigms, reimagine the future, reposition the private sector, and reassess the way we utilize technology,” said Raymond Gilpin, Chief Eco...