Sustainable finance key to health equity
The world faces an alarming shortfall of funding needed to transform global health. If the world is to end preventable child, adolescent and maternal deaths, we need new forms of development finance to close a $33.3 billion annual funding gap.
A new financing platform announced this week at the Conference on Financing for Development in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia aims to do just that. The Global Financing Facility (GFF) is a country-driven financing partnership to accelerate efforts to end preventable maternal, newborn, child and adolescent deaths by 2030.
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Japan scraps 2020 Olympic stadium design
The Japanese government has decided to scrap its controversial design for the stadium for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said his government would “start over from zero”.
The original design, by British architect Zaha Hadid, had come under criticism as estimated building costs almost doubled, reaching $2bn (£1.3bn)
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Mr Abe says the new stadium will...
An artist's impression of the original stadium design[/caption]
Mr Abe says the new stadium will...
Bangladesh : Joint statement for Int’l Justice Day
International Justice Day, or International Criminal Justice Day, has been observed every year on July 17 since 1998, marking the day on which the international community adopted the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC). Odhikar and FIDH have been commemorating International Justice Day for several years, both on their own and as members of the International Coalition for the International Criminal Court (CICC). On this day, the Rome Statute of the ICC was adopted by the international community, with an aim to end impunity for international crimes, namely genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and the crime of aggression.
Country powers ahead on off-grid solar
More than the technology it is the advocacy that allowed the Bright Green Energy Foundation (BGEF) to install more than 145,000 solar home systems (SHS) that benefit eight million rural people in Bangladesh.
SHS units including solar panels, battery and regulator are not displayed in showrooms. Instead BGEF has been directly promoting the benefits of its environment-friendly technology in the field since 2010, when it was registered.
Dipal Chandra Barua, the founder of BGEF, puts his faith in rural-based Green Technology Centres...
Dipal Chandra Barua, the founder of BGEF, puts his faith in rural-based Green Technology Centres...
Japan’s security bills to break regional order: Experts
Bangladeshi experts has said that Japan’s security bills will bring new complications into global and regional politics as the country seeks to play an aggressive role to counter the existing regional order.
Their comments came after Japan’s ruling coalition led by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe rammed through the controversial security bills that will expand the role of the country’s Self-Defense Forces (SDF) in the all-powerful lower house of the nation’s Diet amid strong public opposition.
The bills also show that Japan eyes China’s existing ...
The bills also show that Japan eyes China’s existing ...
RMG export growth to new markets declines
According to sources, the FE says, Bangladeshi apparel is losing out in emerging markets to competitors like Vietnam, Cambodia, India and Pakistan, as many buyers cut back orders due to political unrest, safety and other compliance issues in the country.According to a report in Bangladesh’s Financial Express (FE) this morning, the country’s ready-made garments (RMG) exports to non-traditional markets have recorded just marginal growth in the fiscal year just ended (2014-15). Insiders are said to consider this alarming news for the country’s apparel sector.
