Between 1990 and 2013, global life expectancy increased by nearly 5.8 years in men and 6.6 years in women, reports Medical News Today based on a new analysis of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013 published in The Lancet.
“The progress we are seeing against a variety of illnesses and injuries is good, even remarkable, but we can and must do even better,” says lead author Dr Christopher Murray, professor of Global Health at the University of Washington.
“The huge increase in collective action and funding given to the major infectious diseases such as diarrhea, measles, tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS and malaria has had a real impact,” he says.
The past decade has not been good for Greenland. It has been during this period when the melting of glaciers had been noticed leaving many stumped.
Many researches too were done to get to the depth of the story. But a new study is at the centre of attraction as it has been touted as the first ever comprehensive picture of melting of glaciers in Greenland.
A group of researchers at the University at Buffalo who were involved in the study have now confirmed to the fact that lose of ice in Greenland has been going on at a more rapi...
One of the most promising economies in the world today, Bangladesh has a host of positive statistics and numbers including: In 2014, gross income per capita reached $1,190, Bangladesh ranks number 140 out of 177 countries for development and it is moving higher, The rate of population growth is currently at 1.39% a year.
Today, approximately 75% of the people in Bangladesh live in rural parts of the country, and most of them depend on agriculture for their livelihood. The agricultural sector is the largest by far, contributing approximately 19.09% of the country’s GDP, and providing jobs to around 48.1% of the labor force.
The World Bank (WB) has approved approximately 1.1 billion U.S. dollars for three projects in Bangladesh, according to a statement of the Washington-based lender received here Wednesday.
The projects would benefit almost 36 million people by improving the quality of primary education, building coastal communities’ resilience to natural disaster, and increasing the nutrition and cognitive development of children from the poorest households, the statement showed, reports Xinhua.
The projects approved by the bank’s Board of Executive Directors are 400 mi...
Home to 157 million people living in a land crisscrossed by the waters of the enormous Ganga-Brahmaputra delta, Bangladesh is the world’s most densely populated country. While 47 million people still live in poverty and are extremely vulnerable during frequent floods and cyclones, the country has registered remarkable successes between 1990 and 2010—reducing poverty by a third, achieving gender parity in primary and secondary education, and cutting its maternal mortality rate by 40 percent.
The World Bank Group has supported development in Bangladesh since 1972, including by financing its groundbreaking conditional cash transfer program that helped get millions of girls into school in the early 1990s, and contributing to the country’s stellar results in increasing female literacy. It...
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Giving his brief statement, Mozena said having disagreement is an important part of any matured relationship an...
