Dhaka, July 18 (IANS) The roots of Bangladesh’s youth employment crisis lie well before young people enter the labour market, with an education system failing to equip students with quality learning and job-ready skills, a report has stated.Public spending on education has remained below 2 per cent of GDP — far below UNESCO’s recommended 4–6 per cent and the lowest in the Asia-Pacific region. The impact is reflected in poor learning outcomes, with only 49 per cent of children aged 7–14 pos…
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United Nations, June 25 (IANS) There are still 655 million people, or 8 per cent of the global population, living without electricity, with the majority in Sub-Saharan Africa, a latest UN report has shown.In addition, 1.8 billion people currently use polluting fuels and technologies for cooking, which has put their health and well-being at risk, according to the latest edition of Tracking Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 7: The Energy Progress Report, released on Wednesday (local time).Sub-Sah…
New Delhi, Feb 3 (IANS) Slashing global aid, particularly by the US and European countries, will reverse decades of progress in fighting diseases, and lead to 22.6 million additional deaths in people of all age groups, including children under five years of age, by 2030, warned a new study published in The Lancet Global Health on Tuesday.The peer-reviewed study led by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), in Spain, showed that the additional deaths will be across 93 low- and midd…