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Finance and Economy
Flagship Economic Report Highlights why Global Cooperation is Key
The UN’s World Economic Situation and Prospects report for 2024 projects a slowdown in global growth from an estimated 2.7 per cent in 2023...
Civil society
New Medicines May Help End AIDS – But High Prices and Monopolies Could Keep the Poor Locked Out
On the current trajectory, most people who need them will not be able to get them any time soon, because high prices and monopolies...
CSR
The irony of subsisting in the middle of an ocean of resources
Islanders in a distant Maldivian atoll now benefit from a fish filleting platform installed to add value to the catch the fishermen bring.
200 kilometres...
Child marriage
Nepal’s population experts caution on COVID-19
New data shows that the COVID-19 pandemic has taken a toll on sexual and reproductive health programmes in Nepal. Experts worry that they won’t...
COVID-19
Revellers cross international borders to welcome 2022; throw caution to the wind
Tens of thousands of people intermingled among complete strangers to usher in the New Year on Nepal's Kosi river barrage. The revellers arrived from...
COVID-19
An optimistic WHO chief hopes 2022 marks the end of COVID’s acute stage
Hours before 2021 ends, the World Health Organisation director general expressed optimism that the coming year may mark the end of the acute stage...
Civil society
Public health emergencies are our past, our present, and we will face them again
Never before has the need for a localised approach to crises been so evident.
Jagan Chapagain
As we end this year, I would like to pay...
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Two Challenges Before Microfinance
The rate of interest charged by microfinance institutions is high enough not to allow microfinance to bring about any...
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Quakes Do Not Kill People, Bad Buildings Do
The infrastructure surge in the geologically fragile Himalayas is putting people at risk. So are populations in the alluvial...
Human Society is Making the Mistake of Forgetting the Importance of Forests: President Droupadi Murmu
President Droupadi Murmu said that she was confident that the officers of the Indian Forest Service had become completely...
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Two Challenges Before Microfinance
The rate of interest charged by microfinance institutions is...
Quakes Do Not Kill People, Bad Buildings Do
The infrastructure surge in the geologically fragile Himalayas is...
