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UN development chief sounds alarm over debt distress

Achim Steiner, head of the United Nations Development Programme, says that 25 of the 52 were spending more than a fifth of government revenues servicing external debt

UN development chief Steiner sounds alarm over debt distress

Steiner did not name the countries involved, but the UNDP last week released a report which called for a 30 percent write-off of external debt for 52 countries at 2021 values

Pakistan: 1 rape every 2 hours, conviction rate among world's lowest, says report

The survey, which was conducted by Pakistani channel SAMAA TV's Investigation Unit (SIU) based on the data collected from the home department and Ministry of Human Rights of Pakistan's Punjab province, also found that while the rape cases of women spiked, the conviction rate remained an abysmal 0.2

Inflation will have only a negligible impact on poverty in India: Nirmala Sitharaman quotes UNDP report

She wrote in a tweet that the report shows that inflation will have only a negligible impact on poverty in India, adding that targeted transfers (such as what India has been doing) help poorer households cope with price spikes

UNDP says inflation pushed 71 million people into poverty since Ukraine war

The UNDP report estimates that 51.6 million more people fell into poverty in the first three months after the war, living off $1.90 a day or less

In Gaza, local businesses find ways to cash in on rubble left by years of conflict

The United Nations Development Program says it worked with the local private sector to remove some 2.5 million metric tons of rubble left behind from wars in 2009, 2012 and 2014

Afghanistan teeters on brink of universal poverty; 97% population could be affected by mid-2022: UN

Foreign reserves now cover just one week of imports, which the country is heavily reliant on for oil, food and machinery

Indian turns down UN's assistance of integrated supply chain, says it has 'robust system'

Farhan Haq, Deputy Spokesman for the UN chief, also said India had so far not sought any shipments of essential materials from UN agencies

Amid scepticism, how Yemeni women used solar power grids to bring electricity to their villages

In a conservative country wracked by hunger and poverty amid a devastating war that has destroyed most infrastructure, 36-year-old Iman Hadi and her burqa-clad colleagues are achieving what many would have thought unthinkable.

India slips one spot down to 131st rank on UN’s 2020 human development index; Norway tops list

While lauding India's commitment to reducing carbon emissions, UNDP’s Shoko Noda said the drop in ranking doesn't mean ‘India didn't do well but other countries did better’