This is a brief commentary on the Report by ICRIER on the impact of retailing on the unorganised sector.
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'The current issue of Development Outreach magazine showcases how forward-looking companies are reaching out to the four billion or so people who make do with incomes of less than $5 a day.
The magazine captures the experiences of companies engaging with the poor, presenting a dozen case studies, including Unilever's Project Shakti network of women entrepreneurs, CEMEX's Patrimonio Hoy initiative, which provides housing to low-income communities in Mexico, and Nestlé’s Milk District model. more...
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This is a mind boggling article by Mencher, which throws light on the problems related to industrial agriculture, and argues for adoption of natural, organic and decentralized agriculture.
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Bill Gates On Creative Capitalism
Is your company doing well and doing good? TIME magazine editor Richard Stengel discusses creative capitalism with Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill Gates
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UNDP has been present in Afghanistan for over 50 years and continued to operate from Islamabad during the Taliban régime. During that decade, UNDP delivered USD 200 million of assistance to communities throughout the country. UNDP re-established its offices in Kabul in early 2002. UNDP supports the people of Afghanistan as they face new challenges and move their country from recovery to development towards the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals by 2020.
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The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Kabul University (KU) entered into partnership in late 2005 to establish the Center for Policy and Human Development (CPHD). The first Afghan policy research institution of its kind, CPHD has become the focal point of human development and policy research, teaching, and advocacy in the country.
The CPHD based at Kabul University campus, provided a welcoming institutional home. A modern facility with a Human Development Resource Center accessi more...
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This second Afghanistan HDR explores the importance of the rule of law to human development. Establishing effective rule of law is essential to rebuilding the nation, restoring justice, shaping development and making it effective, and preventing a chaotic relapse into conflict. Because Afghanistan is emerging as a modern state in a society still anchored in traditional values, the simplistic approach of replicating existing systems of rule of law that evolved elsewhere cannot work here. The cou more...
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