The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will promote low-carbon technology in Indonesia and other developing countries of Bangladesh, Cambodia, Lao Peoples Democratic Republic, Maldives, Mongolia, Palau, and Viet Nam.
An ADB press release to ANTARA News on Thursday quoted that the bank has announced the establishment of a new trust fund to support the adoption of advanced low-carbon technologies in its developing member countries, with a grant of around US$17.65 million from the Government of Japan.
Japans Environment Minister Nobuteru Ishihara and ADB...
Reach Out To Asia (ROTA) will renovate Bangladesh MHM School in Abu Hamour as part of its Eighth Annual Ramadan Project called ‘Sharing Blessings’, officials announced here Wednesday.
Speaking at media conference held at Qatar Foundation today, ROTA Acting Executive Director Mohamed Al Naama said, “We are engaging ROTA volunteers during the holy month of Ramadan to share their blessings with people in need in our community.”
ROTA’s Ramadan 2014 Project aims to provide opportunities for volunteering and raise awareness on its values and the conc...
Visiting Asian Development Bank (ADB) President Nakao praised Bangladesh for its strong economic growth in recent years, and achievements in poverty reduction and other areas of social development.
The appreciation came when the visiting ADB President Nakao called on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Finance Minister Abul Maal A.Muhith, and discussed the continuation of the four-decade partnership between Bangladesh and the Manila-based lender on Sunday, reports Xinhua.
ADB chief arrived in Dhaka on Saturday on a three-day visit to discuss more a...
In its assessment of the proposed national budget for fiscal 2014-15, Unnayan Onneshan , an independent multidisciplinary think-tank, has said that the government’s fiscal measures may fall short to accelerate the economy to achieve the targeted 7.3 percent GDP growth.
Finance Minister AMA Muhith on Thursday placed in Parliament the Tk 250,506 crore national budget eying 7.3 percent GDP growth with a high hope that this budget will provide necessary guidelines for accomplishing the planned activities of the government.
Stating that the budget is ‘long on targets, short on realities’ in achieving goals, the Unnayan Onneshan said that the share of investment to GDP needs to rise at 34.24 percent in FY 2014-15 in order to achieve the proposed rate of growth of 7.3 percent if the incr...
Wearing sandals and draped in a dark-blue sari, Aparajita Chakraborty glides into the cluster of hilltop homes with the self-assurance of someone who has long been making house calls.
She has. For more than 30 years, Chakraborty has been visiting this extended family, doing checkups and dispensing advice. But she is no doctor, she’s a community health worker who has been dispatched by the local hospital. Yet she has won the trust and gratitude of the surrounding villages by saving lives – mainly from cholera and other deadly diarrhoeal diseases.
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The international community has struggled to deliver when it comes to nutrition, but the issue is gaining unprecedented traction, and aid donors are looking for ways to take advantage of that new momentum.
The U.S. Agency for International Development’s new “multi-sectoral nutrition strategy” will allow the agency to combine resources from a variety of initiatives and program areas to tackle malnutrition and childhood “stunting” like never before, said Richard Greene, senior deputy assistant to the USAID administrator.
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Japans Environment Minister Nobuteru Ishihara and ADB...
