3 days ago

Education the basic requirement of todays world.In this era of competition education is the basic tool to fight up with it.Many high-income countries, having attained high levels of literacy, no longer collect basic literacy statistics and thus are not included in the UIS data. According to human de ...

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5 days ago by Hannatu

I have been looking at the Human Development Index published by the UN. This is an index that ranks the countries of the world by compiling how they are doing in a variety of categories such as literacy, infant mortality, access to clean drinking water, sanitation facilities, life expectancy, access ...

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6 days ago by southwerk

We live in a world of stories, facts and numbers. Numbers often drive politics even though many do not understand what those numbers mean. Numbers appear to be definite. One and one make two. Really? If you have two apples, that is one and one making two. What if one of the apples is rotten? Is it s ...

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11 days ago by moraloutrage

Malalai Joya writes: I am in the United States to ask President Barack Obama to immediately end the occupation of my country. Eight years ago, women’s rights were used as one of the excuses to start this war. But today, Afghanistan is still facing a women’s rights catastrophe. Life for most Afghan w ...

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18 days ago by newsbird

USA has fallen behind 12 countries in human development based on 2007 data in the 2009 report. I don’t like that the GDP per capita is used as a measure of comparing one country to another. Countries which have rich natural resources such as oil will rate higher while average and median incomes may ...

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22 days ago by Virginia Patriot

In an effort to convince Pakistan to raise taxes on its impoverished masses, Secretary of State Clinton Read more ...

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25 days ago by stockresearch52

The 2009 Legatum Prosperity Index published and compiled by the Legatum Institute, an independent policy, advocacy and advisory organization, ranked 104 countries which are home to 90 percent of the world’s population. “The Legatum Prosperity Index is the world’s only global assessment of wealth and ...

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26 days ago by johnmeld

Armenia remained ahead of three of its four neighbors in the United Nations’ latest index of people’s well-being around the world. The Human Development Index (HDI), based on 2007 data, rated 182 countries in terms of their Gross Domestic Product per capita, life expectancy, access to healthcare and ...

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26 days ago by stbideas

The UNDP released its 2009 edition of the Human Development Report recently with Nigeria ranked 158th out of 182 countries below Uganda and Lesotho and ahead of Togo, Malawi and Niger. Norway was ranked no. 1 on the list for the 7th time. The Statistics for Nigeria are below: Ranked 147th in Life Ex ...

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31 days ago by Abhijit

Singapore has the highest immigration ratio after Hong Kong and the Gulf countries among the 38 countries with “very high human development”. America, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and Britain trail far behind — not on development but in the immigration ratio. This is according to the United Nation ...

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