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Nepal Renewable Energy Project to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Posted in ICT for Development, Knowledge for Development, Press Release on July 13, 2007 | No Comments »

More than 142,000 households in Nepal will get long-awaited access to electricity thanks to the implementation of the Nepal Micro Hydro Project for which an emission reductions purchase agreement (ERPA) was signed on Friday, June 29. This is the second greenhouse gas emission reduction project in Nepal, executed by the Alternative Energy Promotion Centre (AEPC), [...]

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Rural Communication divides in Nepal

Posted in ICT for Development, Knowledge for Development, Voices of Youth on July 11, 2007 | 2 Comments »

SLC is the most excepted examination for Nepalese to get release from School life. SLC means School Leaving Certificate examination. As a student, learning about results are the most anxious moments in life. When the result is of SLC examinations, the issue becomes more serious.
How would anyone feel, if s/he have to wait for weeks [...]

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Poor technology and designs kill Bangladesh’s jute carpets

Posted in Knowledge for Development, South Asia on July 11, 2007 | No Comments »

Once famous for its jute carpets, Bangladesh has not only lost the world market to countries like Spain and Turkey but domestic consumers too, thanks to obsolete technology, outdated designs and bad marketing.
Bangladesh continues to grow the finest quality of raw jute, but carpet exports during the first half of 2006-07 were a mere $1.6 [...]

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Small Loan empowered Anowara Begum

Posted in Knowledge for Development, Rural Women on July 10, 2007 | No Comments »

‘’I thought many times, whether God created me only for sufferings! When my husband cried out from chest pain, it became unbearable for me like a beloved wife. I used to go from door to door to borrow some money to buy medicines for my husband. But my relatives and neighbors were reluctant to lend [...]

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Cellphones may take banking to the rural poor in the third world

Posted in ICT for Development, Knowledge for Development on July 9, 2007 | No Comments »

In many third world countries, where bank branches are few and far between, the development that finally may make financial services practical for the rural poor fits in the palm of a hand.
Mobile devices like cellphones have the potential to effectively bring financial markets to the countryside, allowing banks and other lenders in urban areas [...]

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Pakistan’s urban population to equal rural by 2030: UNFPA

Posted in Knowledge for Development on June 29, 2007 | 1 Comment »

* 35-50pc of urban population living in katchi abadis
* Over half of world’s population to live in cities by 2008
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s urban population is likely to equal its rural population by 2030, according to a report titled ‘Life in the City: Pakistan in Focus’, released by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) here on [...]

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Village Phone Lady passing happy life

Posted in ICT for Development, Knowledge for Development, Rural Women on June 27, 2007 | 2 Comments »

Mukhara, Bangladesh: I have an intention to visit villages to find out the rural development. As part of this, few weeks ago I have visited a rural hinterland village named Mukhara to see the present state of Helena.
Helena? You may ask me question that, who is she? Well, Helena is a Village Phone Lady who [...]

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‘Farmers don’t commit SUICIDES where they have COOPERATIVES’: Verghese Kurien

Posted in Knowledge for Development on June 22, 2007 | No Comments »

India, June 23: HAILED AS the father of the India’s White Revolution, Verghese Kurien was responsible for setting up the Anand model of cooperative dairy development. The movement transformed over 2.5 million farmers into stakeholders in the Amul brand, the country’s largest food product manufacturers. The former chairman of the now billion-dollar brand has also [...]

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Pakistan: Agriculture is the most ignored sector of the economy

Posted in Knowledge for Development on June 19, 2007 | 2 Comments »

LAHORE: A complete transformation of the economy has hit hard the agriculture sector, which has suffered badly due to lack of interest by the government in developing the sector in accordance with the modern techniques.The latest Economic Survey reveals that the share of agriculture has reduced to 20.9 percent from the earlier 24 percent and [...]

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Micro Finance helped Amena Begum escape abject poverty

Posted in Knowledge for Development, Rural Women on June 11, 2007 | No Comments »

Borguna, June, 07: For over forty years, Amena Begum lived a life of abject poverty, disappointment and torture. She was born into a poor vegetable trading family in Barobigai village of Amtali upazilla under Borguna district in Bangladesh.
At the tender age of ten, she was traded away by her father to a man thirty years [...]

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