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UN turns to emerging nations
International development agencies faced a ‘diminishing market’ unless they partnered large emerging economies to bring development to the world’s poorest countries, Helen Clark, the head of the United Nations Development Programme, warned on …
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Reality check: UN shows shocking gender disparity
India also has the lowest percentage of female population after Bhutan in the Asia-Pacific region despite a better sex-ratio at birth, the report said. According to the report ‘Power, Voice and Rights’, India also has a large number of cases of …
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Women still playing catch-up
With about 60 percent of rural Bhutanese women holding land registration titles, the report praises Bhutan’s equal inheritance rights for men and women. However, male labour force participation remains significantly higher than that of women …
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Government’s Role in Happiness is Focus of New Book
The country of Bhutan started it. Deciding that happiness was a better measure of government success than economic indicators, the leaders of the South Asian country created a ‘happiness index’ that included the four pillars of ‘gross national …
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Reality check: UNDP shows shocking gender disparity
India also has the lowest percentage of female population after Bhutan in the Asia-Pacific region despite a better sex-ratio at birth, the report said. According to the report ‘Power, Voice and Rights’, India also has a large number of cases of …
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Dehradun, March 8
On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day, Governor Margaret Alva presented Tilu Rauteli awards to 13 extraordinary women, best anganwadi workers to 22 women health workers who toiled day and night implementing health …
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Tibetan government tables budget for 2010/2011 in parliament
… including overseas offices in 11 different countries, and specific welfare programmes and services that are to be undertaken in various Tibetan settlements in India, Nepal and Bhutan. The speaker of the Parliament Mr Penpa Tsering earlier told …
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Bhutan to produce hydro power for India
India will provide Rs35000 crore for the venture. “On India’s request we will provide power annually from this project which will be on a 70% loan and 30% grant,” he told newsmen here. The loan will be repayable in 12 years, while the entire …
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Bhutan still wary of law and order in Assam
“We have not yet given the nod to students and patients who earlier came to Guwahati in large numbers,” Bhutan consul general Tsering Wangda said. Wangda, who is based in Kolkata and is in-charge of the northeast, however, expressed keenness to …
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