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The report underscores the importance of addressing poverty through pro-poor urbanisation, effective management of rural-urban transitions, and investment in sustainable infrastructure.

State-owned Gujarat Narmada Valley Fertilisers and Chemicals Ltd (GNFC) has won the prestigious Golden Globe Tigers Award for Excellence and Leadership in CSR in...

Asia-Pacific countries have adopted a road map for regional cooperation on implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development at the Asia-Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development (APFSD 2017) that concluded in Bangkok recently. The road map lays out priority...

About 400 million or one in ten people in Asia and the Pacific are living under poverty due to widening income inequality, according to a...

The first bilateral forum to address sustainability issues at the trade and investment between India and Netherlands was launched in New Delhi on Wednesday....

Earlier in this month, the world celebrated the strength of women and promising to bridge the gap by aiding to create an equal place...

A white paper on current use and the potential for Information Communication Technology (ICT) in education across China and ASEAN has been launched by...

Investments in gender equality, and specifically those addressing violence against women, remain vastly insufficient in the in Asia-Pacific region. Globally, 1 in 3 women has...

In the past, Mumbai has witnessed some of the most brutal attacks on mankind that drew widespread criticism and brought the world together to...

Increase in global trade with the implementation of trade-led development strategies were considered to be one of the key contributors for reducing poverty prior...

UNEP says raising ambition before 2020 “is likely the last chance to keep the option of limiting global warming to 1.5C”. As the Paris Agreement...

About 224 million people in India lived below poverty line in 2013. This is according to ‘Poverty and Shared Prosperity’, a report released by...