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Natural disasters and countermeasures in Bangladesh
Written by marie
In disaster-prone Bangladesh, a UNICEF-supported programme helps children stay in school. Read more
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Bangladesh – Arsenic Poisoning of a Population in Need of Pure Drinking Water
Written by Badrud Doza
Bangladesh is grappling with a massive crisis of arsenicosis or chronic arsenic poisoning. A World Bank report shows that arsenic was first detected in the groundwater of Bangladesh and West Bengal in India in the 1990s while a recent study in the British Medical Journal ‘The Lancet’ found that 35-77 million […]
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Democracy, GDP and natural disasters
Written by marie
The World Bank’s Democracy Index and a nation’s GDP are strong predictors of a natural disaster’s humanitarian impact. Read more
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Qualified Yet Unemployed: The Plight of Educated Young People in Sri Lanka
Written by R Mukkath
Sanjana Wickramasinghe, a 23 year-old hotel receptionist in Kandy, spends a good part of her morning browsing through job portals online and newspapers looking for a better opportunity. “I feel like I’m not doing justice to my education: with a degree in hotel management, I’m stuck here answering calls every […]
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Earth Matters: Can India Find a Middle Path?
Written by Rahulkumar
This year will be a significant year for the earth and also for India. February 2nd has the Delhi Sustainable Development Summit 2012 (DSDS) hosted in the Indian capital while the Rio+20 (the Earth Summit) in Brazil in June and IUCN’s World Conservation Congress in South Korea in September are two other major […]
