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Climate change much deadlier than cancer in parts of world, including Pakistan: UNDP
Rescue workers help evacuate flood-affected Pakistanis from their flood-hit homes following heavy monsoon rains in Rajanpur district of Punjab province on August 27, 2022.— AFPUNITED NATIONS: The impact of climate change on health if…
Climate change much deadlier than cancer in some places, UNDP data shows
The study gives the example of Dhaka, Bangladesh, where under a scenario of very high emissions by 2100, additional deaths due to climate change could rise to nearly twice the country’s current annual death rate from all cancers, and 10…
Serious Debt Crisis Unfolding Across Developing Nations: Report
The United Nations’ Development Programme (UNDP) joined on Tuesday the chorus of institutions and charities warning that a serious debt crisis is now taking hold in the poorest parts of the world.
In a new report, the UNDP estimated that 54…
India will do its best to promote South-South cooperation: UN envoy Kamboj
India will continue to do its best in furthering South-South cooperation which has become even more crucial at a time when developing nations were mostly left to fend for themselves during the COVID-19 pandemic, the country's envoy to the…
Global Human Development Index declines for second straight year, India drops a spot to 132: UNDP…
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has published its Human Development Index (HDI) report for 2021-22, noting that for the first time in 32 years that the UN agency has been calculating HDI, the index declined globally for two…
Inflation impact on India’s poor negligible, says FM citing UNDP report
Well-tailored programmes to ensure people don’t run the risk of slipping into poverty seem to have made an impact, she says
Well-tailored programmes to ensure people don’t run the risk of slipping into poverty seem to have made an impact,…
Prajakta Koli becomes UNDP India’s first youth climate champion
By IANS
MUMBAI: Content creator and actress Prajakta Koli has become India's first UN Development Programme (UNDP) Youth Climate Champion under her partnership with the organisation.The title has been conferred to…
Afghan banking system on brink of collapse, UN warns | DW | 22.11.2021
The Afghan financial system is staring at a collapse within months as it reels from a worsening cash liquidity crunch and a spike in bad loans, a new report by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) said on Monday. The UN body…
undp: Taliban deputy PM Baradar meets UNDP director in Doha, seeks help | India News – Times…
KABUL: Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Taliban-announced interim government's acting Deputy Prime Minister, met United Nations Development Program's (UNDP) Director Achim Steiner in Doha and discussed various issues including the…