The year 2023 marks the mid-point of the 15-year period envisaged to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, targets for global development adopted in September 2015 by all United Nations Member ...
LONDON, Sept 14 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Gender inequality is one of the greatest barriers to human development progress, U.N. officials said as they launched an index on Friday showing the ...
This year’s International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction, which was observed on 13 October 2022, focused on the objective to “Substantially increase the availability of and access to multi-hazard ...
‘Progress’ and ‘development’ are disputed terms these days. But no villager would turn the clock back to how things were in 1985. Those thatched circular huts do still exist, but more and more are ...
New York, 9 July 2019 – The impacts of climate change and increasing inequality across and within countries are undermining progress on the sustainable development agenda, threatening to reverse many ...
This article is part of ourEconomy's 'Decolonising the economy' series. "They talk to me about progress, about 'achievements,' diseases cured, improved standards of living. I am talking about ...
The district in-charge Minister S.T. Somashekar said here on Wednesday that development works were being given emphasis alongside with measures to combat the pandemic. He was speaking during the 73rd ...
I have disagreed with many of former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s policies during his time in power. Yet, credit must be given where it is due. When he envisioned the Kuala Lumpur City Centre ...