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New Effort to Fight 10 'Neglected' Tropical Diseases

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A new campaign aims to fight ten diseases that affect many of the world's poorest people but do not get much attention. The diseases include conditions like sleeping sickness, guinea worm and leprosy. They affect more than a billion people worldwide. The campaign promises almost eight hundred million dollars for drug donation programs.

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Sonia Hossain on April 09, 2012

The Island of Happiness Revisited

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The United Arab Emirates is converting Saadiyat Island into an international tourist destination, and will house a campus of New York University and museums, including branches of the Guggenheim and the Louvre. In 2009, Human Rights Watch documented the exploitation of South Asian migrant workers on the island and the lack of legal and institutional protections for workers, urging the developers and institutions to pledge to address the abuses. Three years later, this progress report notes that more...

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Sonia Hossain on March 25, 2012

Family Planning: Pathway to Poverty Reduction

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This guide provides the facilitator with an overview of how to effectively use and present Family Planning:Pathway to Poverty Reduction, an ENGAGE Presentation. It includes information about opportunities to give the presentation, a list of technology requirements, presentation instructions, presentation tips, instructions for creating and using presentation handouts, discussion guide questions, FAQs, resources and references, and definitions of key terms used throughout the presentation. The more...

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Sonia Hossain on February 09, 2012

World Population to Hit Seven Billion by October

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According to current projections, and with some of the world's poorest nations doubling their populations in the next decade, the second milestone will be in 2025: an eight billion population over the next 14 years. The rise in population is expected to have a devastating impact on some 215 million women who want - but do not have - access to quality reproductive health and family planning services. The world's five most populous countries are China (1.3 billion), India (1.2 billion), the more...

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D C on July 13, 2011

User-generated content and social networking in the Arab spring and beyond

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User-generated content played an important role in the recent protests and uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), collectively referred to as the “Arab spring” or “Arab awakening”. In addition to being effective tools for communication and coordination by protesters, user-generated content andsocial networking platforms have also been used by governments, often to crack down on protesters. These are found to be areas of contestation between protesters and governments, not more...

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D C on June 12, 2011

A socio-economic impact analysis of cultural diversity

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This paper aims to map out the consequences of migration flows for modern cities, and in particular it analyzes various aspects of urban cultural diversity. It argues that the sustainable and innovative development of cities under conditions of creative cultures is possible, and it presents a ‘pentagon model’ as an analytical tool for investigating the necessary conditions for achieving a balanced and thriving urban development. The paper also pays attention to the socio-economic aspects of more...

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Sonia Hossain on May 26, 2011

Freedom In The World 2012

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The political uprisings that swept across the Arab world over the past year represent the most significant challenge to authoritarian rule since the collapse of Soviet communism. The continued pattern of global backsliding— especially in such critical areas as press freedom, the rule of law, and the rights of civil society—is a sobering reminder that the institutions that anchor democratic governance cannot be achieved by protests alone. The findings of Freedom in the World 2012, the latest more...

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Sonia Hossain on February 20, 2012

Arab Development Challenges Report 2011

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This report analyses key interlocking development challenges in the Arab region that are the underpinnings of the growing impetus for positive transformative change. It also seeks to provide a menu of options to address the challenges in a manner that paves the way for smooth transitions and transformations that are in direct response to the aspirations of the People of the Arab region toward human dignity. This report argues that the development model followed in the Arab region can be placed more...

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Sonia Hossain on March 25, 2012

World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT-12)

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The World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT-12) shall be convened, with the concurrence of a majority of the Member States, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, for a duration of ten working days from 3 to 14 December 2012.AgendaResolution 171 (Guadalajara, 2010) resolves that the agenda as fixed in Council Resolution 1317 be adopted for the work of WCIT-12. Invitation and AdmissionThe conditions for admission to the World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT more...

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John Daly on January 30, 2012

Women and labour markets in Asia: Rebalancing for Gender Equality

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While undoubtedly some progress has been made in past decades in addressing gender inequality, discrimination against women remains pervasive throughout the labour markets of the region. Gender inequalities are not only rooted in the socio-cultural norms of countries but also entrenched in the policy and institutional frameworks that shape the employment opportunities of Asia’s female labour force of 734 million.Gender inequality in labour markets remains a persistent phenomenon, albeit to more...

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D C on May 19, 2011

The Money Trail: Ranking Donor Transparency in Foreign Aid

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Official Development Assistance (ODA) is one of the most important instruments of collaboration between rich nations and poor nations. In 2009 alone, net disbursements of ODA were $140.2 billion, and over $3.76 trillion between 1960 and 20094. For 31 recipient countries ODA was greater than 10% of their GDP in 2008.There is growing consensus that aid transparency must be improved to get better aid effectiveness. Aid transparency can be defined as “the comprehensive availability and more...

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D C on May 12, 2011

Should Easier Access to International Credit Replace Foreign Aid?

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In this paper, the authors examine the interaction between foreign aid and binding borrowing constraint for a recipient country. They also analyze how these two instruments affect economic growth via non-linear relationships. First of all, a two-country, two-period trade-theoretic model is established to develop testable hypotheses and then dynamic panel analysis is used to test those hypotheses empirically. The main findings are that: (i) better access to international credit for a recipient more...

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Sonia Hossain on March 05, 2012

The Southern Silk Road

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We are witnessing the creation of a Southern Silk Road, a network of new “South-South” trading routes connecting Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Latin America. Knowing that China, India and other emerging nations are growing quickly is not enough to understand fully the revolution taking place in world economic affairs. We are witnessing the creation of new economic and financial connections that will fundamentally change patterns of economic endeavour around the world. As South-South trade more...

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Sonia Hossain on November 27, 2011

Global Peace Index 2011

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The results of the Global Peace Index (GPI) for 2011 suggest that the world has become slightly less peaceful in the past year. The deterioration is smaller than that which occurred between the 2009 and 2010 editions of the GPI, when some nations experienced an intensification of conflicts and growing instability linked to rapid rises in food, fuel and commodity prices and the global economic downturn. The 2011 GPI, which gauges ongoing domestic and international conflict, safety and security more...

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D C on May 26, 2011

8 Fast facts about girls’ education

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1. 19 million more children enrolled in school between 2002 and 2008 in over 40 developing countries supported by EFA FTI. 54% of those children were girls, proving that girls are at last catching up with boys.2. In African FTI countries, 62% of children entering school for the first time were girls.3. More than two thirds of girls completed the last grade of primary school in all FTI countries in 2008, compared to only 52 percent in 2000.4. Ethiopia: By applying an education sector more...

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D C on May 19, 2011

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