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The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) is a gravity dam currently under construction on the Blue Nile River in the Benishangul-Gumuz Region of Ethiopia, about 15 km (9 mi) east of the border with Sudan. The construction began in 2011 and is expected to be completed in 2017. The GERD is presumed to be the largest dam...
Beira, is a city built during the 19th century by the Portuguese and designed for at least at most 30 000. Today the population has grown to over 400 000 with thousands of people living in unplanned settlements putting a strain on the city’s facilities. Residents in Beira,Mozambique’s second largest...
For nearly 20 years she had worked for the World Bank in Washington DC, following development projects. Until she became chief of staff of the Bank’s President, Jim Yong Kim. A remarkable carrier, the one of Laura Frigenti, 56, Roman, appointed by Matteo Renzi to structure and direct the Italian...
Hassen, a father of 4, lives in a small village located in Halydege (Amibara), Afar region of Ethiopia. The area was one of the few grazing lands in the drought-prone region where raising livestock is a principal source of income and livelihood. The land once covered with vegetation and decorated...
The rise of the so-called ‘new donors’ and increasingly successful forms of direct economic investments from former recipient-countries to the worst-off countries in the Global South poses a challenge to those efforts that try to construct a normative conception of development. Julian Culp is one of the few political philosophers...
‘The 2016-17 budget is pro-village, pro-poor and pro-farmer’, said the Indian prime minister on 29 January 2016 after the budget was presented in the parliament. As the current government under Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) completes two years, I seek to examine how concerned it is towards the villages, poor and...
Last year, the World Health Organization and UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme estimated that 61 percent of rural Indians defecate in the open. Even as the world is transitioning from the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to the Sustainable Development Goals, India continues to lag behind on the sanitation related MDG indicators....
The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government, which came to power in May 2014, riding on a wave of hope, optimism and development rhetoric inherited a socio-economy which required the attention of the state. While corruption, black money and price rise dominated the headlines, other macro-indicators of the economy and social...
The Juvenile Justice (JJ) Act 2015 came into effect amid much controversy on January 15, 2016 after receiving the Presidential assent in December 2015. It repealed the previous JJ Act, 2000. It had been passed by both the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha without much opposition despite bringing critical...
Amid hundreds of children in the malnutrition and neonatal ward of Mithi District Headquarter civil hospital, a tiny Mukesh, remained motionless. Midget in stature, he looks nowhere a baby from his appearance. The mark on his crib headboard shows that he is three years old. We are in children ward...
