Recently, the United Nations, the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, and other world organization said that will increase global growth expectations, this means the optimistic prospects of the global economic recovery. ...
Tags: Economic, Economic Recovery
A University of Otago, New Zealand, research breakthrough from the Sir John Walsh Research Institute is helping pave the way for novel antifungal drugs designed to overcome the world-wide problem of growing resistance to current treatments. ...
Tags: Aids, Drug Resistance, expand the array of antifungal treatments
The garment manufacturing industries in Bangladesh have not yet reached the peak level where they would need to shift to another level of industrialization to avoid decline, Dr. Ludovico Alcorta, Director, Development Policy, Statistics and ...
DyStar is to announce the release of its third annual Sustainability Report. The report provides a valuable insight into DyStar’s progress and initiatives towards sustainability during 2012, following the guidelines of Global ...
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Raising the alarm against deepening income disparities in countries around the world, the head of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) called today for a shift to more inclusive growth patterns – supported by redistributive ...
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Global foreign direct investment (FDI) rose to levels not seen since the start of the global economic crisis in 2008, increasing by 11 per cent in 2013 to an estimated $1.46 trillion, with the lion's share going to developing countries, ...
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There are many ways to drive forward the energy saving and environmental protection industries in an ecologically fragile area like Northwest China's Gansu province, but not if the market is shut and centered on local government's ...
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The International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (Icsid) announced today that the following projects (in alphabetical order) have been identified as the three finalist projects for the World Design Impact Prize 2013-2014: A ...
Tags: industrial design, Design
If you didn’t know, now you know: there probably shouldn’t be any expectation that credit card information—or any personal details stored in digital form—is completely safe from hackers. Just as shoppers in the ...
Tags: Cybercrook, Cho Yeon-haeng, regulator, FSS
Gross Domestic Product is a misleading measure of national success, say ANU experts. In a commentary piece for the latest edition of Nature, Crawford School of Public Policy's Professor Robert Costanza and Dr Ida Kubiszewski have urged ...
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The transport and logistics community is invited to join RedR Australia on Friday 7 February 2014 and wear red to help it make a difference to communities hit by natural disasters or displaced by conflict. 'Wear Red for RedR Day' is a ...
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Antarctica's Pine Island Glacier, one of the biggest single contributors to world sea-level rise, is melting irreversibly and could add as much as a centimetre (0.4 inches) to ocean levels in 20 years, a study said Sunday. The glacier ...
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Mylan, Inc. (Nasdaq: MYL) today announced that Zyomyx's MyT4™ point-of-care CD4 diagnostic test has received the CE Certificate of Conformity in the European Union, an important step toward launching this innovative test and expanding ...
Tags: Mylan, Zyomyx's MyT4™point-of-care CD4, diagnostic test, HIV
Pulses have captured the attention of the United Nations. The UN General Assembly voted to declare 2016 as the "International Year of Pulses." "This is an extraordinary opportunity for the global pulse industry" declared Gordon Bacon, CEO ...
The Canola Council of Canada (CCC) today announced a new 10-year plan to capitalize on the world's growing appetite for healthier oils and protein. Terry Youzwa, Chairman of the CCC Board of Directors, said the plan is aimed at increasing ...
Tags: Canola Industry, New Targets