2017 Global Trends in Giving Report
Based upon the survey results of 4,084 donors worldwide, the 2017 Global Trends in Giving Report is unique in that it is the only annual research project dedicated to studying how donors worldwide prefer
Aid Agencies
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Crisis mismanagement
Africa is reeling under a double whammy. As if the erratic weather pattern that has led to a widespread famine was not enough, corruption and mismanagement has compounded the people's misery. Two
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Soft target
The Orissa government makes a move to wrest control of some 2,000 odd non governmental organisations operating in the state
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Should we ask a rapist whether he should be punished or not?
Ram Krushna Patnaik, finance minister of Orissa
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Withdrawal symptoms
Drug firms abandon their case against South Africa over the pricing of AIDS medicines
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Ground zero within
What was the social yield of the nuclear tests conducted by India? As the sensitive electronic devices measured the output of the blasts, Down To Earth records the reactions of the civil society
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BANGLADESH GET AID
The World Bank (WB) is to provide financial assistance to Bangladesh for tackling the growing menace of arsenic poisoning in this tiny southeast Asian nation. A programme is expected to be
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UNITED NATIONS
The United Nations (UN) Children's Fund (UNICEF) is calling for support for efforts to raise the minimum recruitment age for children in the armed forces. A working group in Geneva is dealing with
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UNITED NATIONS
According to a report of the UN, the HIV epidemic is far worse than previously thought. The report released by the joint UN programme on HIV/AIDS paints a grim picture of the spread of the HIV
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World Bank lendings
The World Bank (WB) in its 50-year history has supported more than 6,600 development projects worth US $337 in about 140 countries. These projects have supported sectoral growth in various
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Growth of R&D
Funding and technology cooperation in the past 17 years indicate that research and development (R&D) is becoming increasingly globalised. Foreign funding of industrial R&D in the US increased almost