03/01/2020
WASHINGTON (World Bank)* — Debt in emerging and developing economies (EMDEs) climbed to a record US$55 trillion in 2018, marking an eight-year surge that has been the largest, fastest, and most broad-based in nearly five decades, according to a new World Bank Group study that urges policymakers to act promptly to strengthen their economic policies and make them less vulnerable to financial shocks.
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03/01/2020
2 January 2020 (UN News)* — At the start of the new year and new decade, the head of the United Nations health agency thanked “the brave health workers” around the globe and asked that the world do better in supporting them.
World Bank/Salahaldeen Nadir | Nurse training in Hamashkoreeb, Sudan. (file)
“They are doing life-saving work every day, including during holidays when the rest of us are with our loved ones at home”, said Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), in his video message for the new year.
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02/01/2020
Dr. Naresh Jotwani
Dear NATO Member,
Much is achieved in “civilized life” by deceiving others in a calculated manner. When “others” are simple-minded people, this strategy works very well. Indeed, this is a time-tested strategy of gaining “competitive edge” in the stress-filled and never-ending chase for “the good life”.
In fact this tactic forms the very basis of “civilized life”. In a society, if everybody said what they meant, and meant what they said, the society would have to be dubbed “primitive”, would it not?
But the tactic has its limits.
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02/01/2020
2 January 2020 (UN Environment)* — Once upon a time, there was a tropical forest that stretched all the way from Somalia to Mozambique. Today, there isn’t much left. In Kenya all that’s left of the forest is 42,000 hectares on the coast called the Arabuko Sokoke Forest.
Photo by UN-REDD Programme
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02/01/2020
1 January 2020 (UN News)* — At the dawn of the next decade, a new World Food Programme (WFP) forecast of global hunger hotspots has revealed that escalating hunger will challenge sub-Saharan Africa in the first half of 2020.
WFP/Simon Pierre Diouf | In Mali, recurrent floods and droughts have made life difficult for farmers.
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01/01/2020
31 December 2019 (UN News)* — The world will welcome more than 392,000 babies on New Year’s Day, according to estimates from the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF).
UNICEF/Zehbrauskas | A man cries with laughter as he holds his newborn baby, born a few moments before at Lerdsin Hospital, Bangkok, Thailand.
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01/01/2020
1 January 2020 (UN News)* — The world will need an additional nine million nurses and midwives to achieve the commitment of providing all people with access to health care by 2030, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned.
UNICEF/Vishwanathan | An Auxiliary Nurse Midwife performs critical ante-natal services in Shrawasti, India.
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