The year 2023 marks the mid-point of the 15-year period envisaged to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, targets for global development adopted in September 2015 by all United Nations Member ...

The company also has launched a Web portal that offers ISVs an environment for building, testing, configuring and deploying cloud applications. The new Arcade portal includes access to the RightScale ...

LONDON, Sept 14 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Gender inequality is one of the greatest barriers to human development progress, U.N. officials said as they launched an index on Friday showing the ...

The risk that impoverished populations in fragile and conflict-affected states will be left behind by the United Nations' ambitious development agenda is increasing as member states negotiate the post ...

Human development progress is experiencing an unprecedented slowdown according to a new report released Tuesday by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Instead of seeing sustained recovery ...

‘Progress’ and ‘development’ are disputed terms these days. But no villager would turn the clock back to how things were in 1985. Those thatched circular huts do still exist, but more and more are ...

New York, 9 July 2019 – The impacts of climate change and increasing inequality across and within countries are undermining progress on the sustainable development agenda, threatening to reverse many ...

I have disagreed with many of former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s policies during his time in power. Yet, credit must be given where it is due. When he envisioned the Kuala Lumpur City Centre ...