The report presents a mixed picture. Over the past 25 years, there have been notable improvements in child well-being in the group of countries examined in this report: steady decline in child mortality, overall reduction in adolescent suicide and increase in school completion rates. But the last five years have …
Education continues to be an important area of cooperation for India and the United States. On Monday, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and US President Barack Obama announced the decision to host a higher education summit next year.
This report celebrates the contributions of the human development approach, which is as relevant as ever to making sense of our changing world and finding ways to improve people
New Delhi: Even as the Centre is yet to firm up its view about screening of children for admission in residential schools, Andhra Pradesh has successfully given admission to 50,000 children in 600 state government-run residential schools without any entrance test and following the Right to Education Act in letter …
Education and health are commonly devolved functions to sub-national governments, even in nations which have a unitary rather than a federal structure. This paper investigates, for the specific case of a federal country like India, whether differences between states in shares of public spending on health and education show convergence …
BHAWANIPATNA: The delay in the implementation of Sakhar Bharat Adult Literacy Programme in Kalahandi has raised a question mark on the success of the programme in the given time frame. It replaced the Continuing Education Programme of National Literacy Mission. The recently held district-level executive committee meeting of the Zilla …
Livelihood security has been interpreted in different ways by various scholars. While livelihood has been defined as an adequate flow of resources (both cash and kind) to meet the basic needs of the people, access to social institutions relating to kinship, family and neigbourhood, village and gender bias free property …
Financial development enhances domestic resource mobilisation and also allows these resources to the most productive uses. While there is little doubt that financial development leads to higher economic growth which may then lead to poverty reduction, financial development in itself will allow developing countries to achieve the Millennium Development Goals …
Under the Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor Project, Knowledge City will be established in Ujjain. Higher Education and Culture Minister Shri Laxmikant Sharma today chaired a high-level meeting and held discussions on the proposals received about the Knowledge City project. Principal Secretaries of Higher Education, Technical Education, Commerce and Industry, and Finance …
- An initiative of two NGOs, screen campaign across villages changes the face of agriculture Ranchi, Sept. 14: They are no ordinary educational tools. Made by farmers for farmers, a number of short-duration video films are revolutionising the way agricultural activity is carried out in the hamlets of Jharkhand. Farmers …
Ranchi, Sept. 12: A centrally sponsored adult education scheme of the department of school education and literacy, Saakshar Bharat Programme, will start soon in the districts of Ranchi, Hazaribagh, Dumka and Dhanbad, focussing on women
ANGUL: Mahitala under Chhendipada block was declared 'total literate village' by Angul Zilla Swakhyarata Samiti today. Of the total population of 364 people, 179 are women in this village. The initiative was taken by Jindal Steel and Power Limited (JSPL) under its corporate social responsibility. Informing this at the International …
Bangalore, 2 Sept: If the preparations which the BS Yeddyurappa government is making to send several hundred farmers to China, ostensibly for a study tour, are any indication, the relations between the two countries could not have been better. This, notwithstanding the recent standoff over that country
The Pakistan Millennium Development Goals Report 2010, produced by the Planning Commission, Government of Pakistan analyses the present status and challenges towards achieving the MDGs in Pakistan. It is a comprehensive document which will generate discussions in both public and private sector organization focused on economic and social development.
With 5 years remaining until 2015, we are at the critical junction for achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Marking the 10th anniversary of the Millennium Declaration, heads of states will once again gather at the High Level Plenary Meeting on the MDGs to be held in New York …
