African Statistical Yearbook 2020
The Yearbook series is a result of joint efforts by major African regional organizations to set up a joint data collection mechanism of socioeconomic data on African countries as well as the development
Population
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UNITED NATIONS
The United Nations Environment Programme (unep) in its Global Environment Outlook 2000 report has painted a devastating picture of the Earth's health on the eve of the new millennium.
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Blinded by figures
By 2010, the world's population will have gone up to 6 billion. But at the recent New York meeting on population and development, counting heads took precedence over critical issues such as women's nutrition and education
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The idea of a clean city
could well become a myth by 2007. More than half of the world' s population by then would be urban dwelling. The urban ecological footprint would fall over larger proportions of common resources says the 'Global Environment Outlook Three' report of the Un
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A tangram for Clinton
In order to reinforce its pro abortion stand, the new US administration has announced its intention of resuming funding to the UNFPA. The hitch: UNFPA supports China's rigorous population control programme, which has been decried internationally as infrin
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Irrigation aid for India stopped
American aid for Indian irrigation projects has been withdrawn as focus shifts to other sectors.
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The best myth
India's Best and Worst States
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Vanishing 'green'
THE Dangs, one of the few forests in Gujarat that boasts of green cover, is facing imminent danger of annihilation. Massive deforestation due to population pressures and rapid industrialisation are
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A look at world urban population
Homo sapien as an urban, undeveloped species >> From 1950 to 2000, the urban population of the world quadrupled
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Health needs political commitment
From population control to reproductive health; Malthusian arithmetic
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UN body pledges $2.4m for population programme
The United Nations Population Fund will provide $2.4 million for the population welfare activities in the country. In this regard, a signing ceremony for the implementation of the annual work plan 2008 between the ministry of population and UNFPA was held here on Thursday. Country representative UNFPA Dr France Donnay and Mohammad Sharif, secretary ministry of population, signed the work plan. The fund would be utilised for implementation of reproductive health and family planing activities in the focused districts of Mansehra, Kohat, Chakwal, Muzaffargarh, Qilla Saifullah, Chaghi, Jacobabad, Thatta, Kotli and Muzaffarbad. The major activities of the annual plan included training, integrated quality primary health care, reproductive health/family planning through mobile units in remote areas, advocacy and community awareness, procurement of contraceptives, improved management system for programme delivery, support to demographic and population studies and sensitisation of political as well as religious leaders besides support for public-private sector organisation on population and development issues.