economic_development Archives - NEPS News https://nepsnews.in/tag/economic_development/ Independent Online News Thu, 14 Sep 2023 07:13:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://nepsnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/cropped-WhatsApp-Image-2023-06-09-at-13.03.36-1-32x32.jpeg economic_development Archives - NEPS News https://nepsnews.in/tag/economic_development/ 32 32 Over 330 million children worldwide living in extreme poverty https://nepsnews.in/2023/09/14/over-330-million-children-worldwide-living-in-extreme-poverty/ https://nepsnews.in/2023/09/14/over-330-million-children-worldwide-living-in-extreme-poverty/#respond Thu, 14 Sep 2023 07:09:04 +0000 https://nepsnews.in/?p=3224 One in every six children is forced to survive on less than $2.15 a day, according to a new report from the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the World Bank released on Wednesday.

The findings show that 333 million children worldwide are living in extreme poverty – a decrease of almost 50 million over the course of the past decade.… Read the rest

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The Secretary-General on Tuesday said he was disappointed by the “slowing pace of inspections” under the UN-brokered Black Sea Initiative – the grain and fertilizer deal which has allowed millions of tonnes of food exports to leave Ukraine.

Russia confirmed that for 60 days it would continue to be a part of the Initiative and the complementary Memorandum of Understanding on food and fertilizer exports from Moscow, in late May – but the deal in effect expires on 17 July.

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