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  Population 0.06 mln
  
  Life expectancy 79 years
  
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  GDP $5.86 bln
  
  - per capita $91,490
  
  - growth rate 5%
  
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Mid Day Meal Scheme Lacks Enthusiasm in Toto

Mid Day Meal Scheme Lacks Enthusiasm in Toto Mid day meal scheme in rural areas of Punjab has failed to achieve the goal of Universalization of Elementary Education as prescribed by the UN Millennium Development Goals (2000) and followed by Government of India. Total Enrollment of selected schools belonging to three districts, namely, Amritsar, Tarn Taran, and Gurdaspur Districts of Rural Punjab was 33085 during the base year (average of 2007 to 2009). This enrollment declined to 31667 during more...

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Gursharan Singh Kainth on February 09, 2012

Moving from food crisis to food security in ACP countries

cta.int –

African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries must not only cope with the current food crisis, but devise policies to ensure food security for future generations. Global food production will have to rise by at least 70% by 2050 to keep pace with population growth. This policy brief describes some of the measures which could be taken to increase food security in ACP countries. These include: increasing investments in agriculture and rural development; encouraging intensive forms of green more...

Added by Zunia on February 09, 2012

Top 10 Largest Recipients of U.S. Aid in 2011

ibtimes.com –

In an effort to build Afghanistan’s economy and to establish security, the U.S. doles out more than $4 billion a year. About half of that is devoted only to training and equipping Afghan troops; another $1.5 billion comes from USAID programs.Israel collected $190 million from USAID in 2011. Israel is also the number one recipient of military aid, receiving a total of $2.75 billion in 2010. The country has received $17 billion from the U.S. over the past 10 years. The United States has given more...

Added by Zunia on February 08, 2012

The Effectiveness of interventions to change six health behaviours: A review of reviews

biomedcentral.com –

This paper reports the findings of a review of reviews of behavioural change interventions to reduce unhealthy behaviours or promote healthy behaviours. We included six different health-related behaviours in the review: healthy eating, physical exercise, smoking, alcohol misuse, sexual risk taking (in young people) and illicit drug use. The focus of interventions varied, but those targeting specific individuals were generally designed to change an existing behaviour (e.g. cigarette smoking, more...

Added by Zunia on February 09, 2012

Responding to the Global Financial Crisis

adbi.org –

This paper examines the evolving dynamics between economic globalization and Asian regional interdependence, and asks whether and how the global financial crisis impacted Asian regionalism. The analysis suggests that the global crisis did trigger advances in regional policy cooperation from 2007 onwards, especially in the area of financial and monetary cooperation. Although the first order response of Asian countries was to join the broader global effort to contain financial freefall at the more...

Added by Zunia on February 09, 2012

Arab spring and reorganization of the state

mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de –

This paper is based upon the assumption that within the next five years or so, bulk of the Islamic world will get rid of their dictators and be governed by democratic regimes. If so, what kind of a state and what kind of an economic system will these countries have? But now that democracy is advancing, the future political and economic systems of Islamic countries will be decided by the peoples themselves. What then will be this system like? The author will argue that it should fulfill four more...

Added by Zunia on February 09, 2012

Global Data Privacy Laws: 89 Countries, and Accelerating

papers.ssrn.com –

It is almost forty years since Sweden’s Data Act 1973 was the first comprehensive national data privacy law, and was the first to implement what we can now recognize as a basic set of data protection principles. How many countries now have data protection laws? This article surveys the forty years since then of global development of data privacy laws to the start of 2012. It expands and updates ‘Global data privacy laws: Accelerating after 40 years’ ((2011) Privacy Laws & Business more...

Added by Zunia on February 08, 2012

Case studies of intermediary influence

ikmediarynetwork.org –

Based on interviews with intermediary service users, each case study highlights ways in which the information accessed from using intermediary services is applied and the outcomes of that information use. The case studies are unusual in that they focus on outcomes of the services, not the services themselves.The extracts featured on the following pages form part of a larger collection of evaluation data which is being collected by the I-K-Mediary Network to analyse the impact of intermediaries more...

Added by Zunia on February 08, 2012

Climate-smart agriculture for food security in Africa

cdkn.org –

Greenhouse agriculture and drip irrigation are examples of climate-smart agricultural innovations that will be increasingly necessary as the effects of climate change take hold in Kenya and elsewhere in Africa. Climate change and variability are likely to severely compromise agricultural production and food security in many African countries. Yields could fall by up to 50% by 2020, while net revenues from crops could drop by as much as 90% by 2100. Small-scale farmers will be most more...

Added by Zunia on February 08, 2012

Family Planning: Pathway to Poverty Reduction

prb.org –

This guide provides the facilitator with an overview of how to effectively use and present Family Planning:Pathway to Poverty Reduction, an ENGAGE Presentation. It includes information about opportunities to give the presentation, a list of technology requirements, presentation instructions, presentation tips, instructions for creating and using presentation handouts, discussion guide questions, FAQs, resources and references, and definitions of key terms used throughout the presentation. The more...

Added by Zunia on February 09, 2012

The impact of human capital outsourcing in Karachi pharmaceutical industry

mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de –

The aim of this research is to examine relationship between Human Capital Management (HRM) and Human Resource (HR) Outsourcing in the Pharmaceutical sector. The specific objective is to find out that how important is HRM for an Organization to perform its operations more efficiently, and at what level Human Resource Outsourcing is affecting it. The universe of study was the employees of Pharmaceutical industry in Karachi Pakistan. It is concluded that all Independent Variables have the more...

Added by Zunia on February 09, 2012

Mobile Phone Health Risks

mobilewise.org –

The substantial body of evidence highlighted in this report suggests that mobile phone use may be linked with a range of important health problems. These include, but are not limited to, brain tumors and the evidence has serious implications for public health. This report describes the major areas of concern for human health and the evidence that supports each of these. The authors examine current government policy and corporate behavior and make a series of recommendations to ensure that both more...

Added by Zunia on February 09, 2012

Mobile Money Services and Poverty Reduction

imtfi.uci.edu –

With support from the New Partnership for African Development (NEPAD), Vinya wa Aka Group (VwAG), a women’s group from the Eastern part of Kenya, has trained 21 women’s groups, in seven rural districts of the Province, on issues related to investment, savings, money services and management. To build on the initial VwAG training, the primary goal of this research study was to investigate the use and impact of mobile money services (e.g. M-PESA, YU and Zap), among the 21 women’s groups, as a tool more...

Added by Zunia on February 09, 2012

A sector-by-sector analysis of aid's impact on transnational terrorism

aiddata.org –

In this study, we examine whether foreign aid decreases terrorism. We analyze whether aid targeted at specific sectors, such as education, is more effective than others. We use the most comprehensive databases on foreign aid and transnational terrorism, AidData and ITERATE, rather than the relatively small samples used in most previous studies, and provide a series of statistical tests. Our results suggest that foreign aid decreases terrorism especially when targeted towards sectors such as more...

Added by Zunia on February 09, 2012

How to measure inflation in India?

nipfp.org.in –

What is the best inflation measure in India? What in inflation measure is most relevant for monetary policy making in India? Questions of timeliness, weights in the price index, accuracy of food price measurement, and inclusion of services prices are relevant to the choice of measure. It is shown that under present conditions of measurement, the Consumer Price Index for Industrial Workers (CPI-IW) is preferable to either the Wholesale Price Index or the GDP deflator.

Added by Zunia on February 08, 2012

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european union	415
greenhouse gas emissions	414
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