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Gender parity in workforce can boost India’s GDP by 27%: IMF chief Christine Lagarde

India’s GDP can expand by a whopping 27 per cent if the number of female workers increases to the same level as that of men, International Monetary Fund’s chief...

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Sustainable Development

Invest 3.5 Percent GDP In Science, Technology, Innovation For Sustainable Development, Experts Say

Investing up to 3.5% of a nation’s GDP in science, technology and innovation – including basic science and education – is a key benchmark for advancing su...

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Environment

Singapore Pledges New 2030 Greenhouse Gas Targets To Limit Climate Change

Singapore has outlined two new environmental targets for the country for the year 2030, in line with global plans to limit climate change and its impact on the world. The G...

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Health

India Performs Poorly In Sanitation And Water Accessibility

A global index finds no significant correlation between GDP and performance as China and India, the two fastest growing Asian economies, are nowhere in the top five categor...

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Environment

Environmental damage in Sundarbans cost a fortune: World Bank

Environmental damage in the climate change-hit islands of Sundarbans is costing India Rs 1,290 crore each year, estimates a latest World Bank report. The cost of environmen...

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Health

Should India make health a fundamental right?

As a symbolic gesture, it is great to make health a justiciable right; but as citizenry, we would be foolish to let the healthcare debate be hijacked by this non-issue, or ...

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Sustainable Development

India Slashes Health Budget, Already Among World's Lowest:

The government has ordered a cut of nearly 20 percent in its 2014/15 healthcare budget due to fiscal strains, putting at risk key disease control initiatives in a country w...

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Sustainable Development

Women?s empowerment key to ending violence

DOREEN NAWA, Lusaka UNDER the banner “Peace begins at home: End violence, empower women” Gender Links is calling for a radical shift in approaches to ending vio...

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Sustainable Development

Food & water crisis ahead

India’s rising affluence and water profligacy could trigger a food crisis very soon At first blush, there is a lot to be cheerful about. India’s index of indust...

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Sustainable Development

The sanitation challenge

The U.N. set the Millennium Development Goals or the MDG between 2000 and 2015. Goals 4 and 7 was to halve the number of people without access to improved water or sanitati...

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