John Vidal

Clean Development Mechanism to use European carbon offset credits to subsidise 20

Juliette Jowit

Modern businesses are fast becoming

RASHME SEHGAL
NEW DELHI
Rising food prices and growing unemployment across South Asia has created a crisis situation where India is unlikely to meet the 2015 Millennium Development Goals (MDG) for poverty alleviation.

New Delhi: The number of poor people in India is expected to halve by 2015, according to the 2010 Millennium Development Goals report released on Wednesday. The poverty rate in the country is slated to decline from 51% of the population in 1990 to 24% over the next five years.

Aarti Dhar

NEW DELHI: India is expected to reduce its poverty rate from 51 per cent in 1990 to 24 per cent in 2015, slashing the number of extremely poor by 188 million. But progress in the rest of South Asia is not sufficient to halve the level of poverty by that target date, according to a United Nations report on the Millennium Development Goals for 2010.

Almost six projects in Pakistan have been registered with the United Nation (UN) for controlling carbon emission. Around 16 more projects are under validation for registration with the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), a branch of United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

BEIJING

The "Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific-2010

Aarti Dhar

NEW DELHI: A United Nations report has called upon governments in the Asia-Pacific region to increase social spending to consolidate the region's stronger than anticipated economic rebound and to spur over the long term a fairer, more balanced, and sustained economic recovery.