Investing in Kids Isn't Rocket Science :: The Millennium Development Goals challenged the world to cut extreme poverty in half, dramatically reduce child mortality, and make primary education universal, but Jody Heymann and Kristen McNeill say the world can do more.
In their report, “Changing Children’s Chances”, released by the World Policy Analysis Centre on Wednesday, Heymann and McNeill map the world’s commitment to essential development needs of children in terms of the official laws, policies, and programmes that exist at the national level.
Based on an extensive understanding of international agreements and norms, Heymann and McNeill identify eight critical areas of need – poverty reduction, quality education, protection from early labour, protection from early marriage, quality health care, po...<div id="medworm"><p><b><i>MedWorm Message:</i></b> Get the very latest Swine Flu news via the MedWorm <b><a href="http://www.medworm.com/rss/search.php?qu=%2Bswine+%2B%28influenza+flu%29&t=Swine+Flu&f=infectiousdiseases&r=Any&o=d" target ="_self">Swine Flu RSS news feed</a></b> - updated hourly from thousands of authoritative health and news sources.</p></div>
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LRA Chief Joseph Kony's Head Now Worth $5 Million, But The Hunt For Him Just Went On Hiatus :: <div class="field field-name-field-images field-type-entityreference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Wednesday brought good news and bad news for Joseph Kony, notorious leader of the Lord's Resistance Army. A major military operation to find and capture the wanted war criminal has been halted by turmoil in central Africa, even as officials in the United States placed a huge new bounty on Kony's head.</p>
<p>About 5,000 African troops -- the vast majority of whom are Ugandan -- have suspended efforts to find Kony in the Central African Republic, or CAR.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/lra-chief-joseph-konys-head-now-worth-5-million-hunt-him-just-went-hiatus-1169917
SSE fined record £10.5m by Ofgem :: Energy supplier SSE is fined £10.5m by Ofgem for "prolonged and extensive" mis-selling, the regulator's biggest ever fine for a supplier.
url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-22011717#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa
VIDEO Malaga 0-0 Borussia Dortmund: Highlights; Gotze And Dortmund Profligacy Keep Scores Level In Champions League Quarterfinal :: <div class="field field-name-field-images field-type-entityreference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Malaga will surely be the happier side to have emerged from the first leg of their quarterfinal tie against Borussia Dortmund with the scores still level and crucially without having conceded an away goal.</p>
<p>There were plenty of chances at La Rosaleda with the favorites for the tie Dortmund and, in particular, Mario Gotze, spurning the best of them. </p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/video-malaga-0-0-borussia-dortmund-highlights-gotze-dortmund-profligacy-keep-scores-level-champions
US to send missile-defence unit to Guam :: North Korea has threatened to target Guam, a US territory and one of the key US military bases in the Asia-Pacific region, amid escalating rhetoric
url: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/cb1ac558-9c26-11e2-9a4b-00144feabdc0.html?ftcamp=published_links%2Frss%2Fhome_europe%2Ffeed%2F%2Fproduct
Jim Carrey Gets Serious On Huffington Post, Responding In Earnest To Fox News And His Gun-Loving Haters :: <div class="field field-name-field-images field-type-entityreference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Embroiled in a running war of words with Fox News and gun zealots, the normally manic Jim Carrey took off his zany mask this week and posted a surprisingly earnest response to his conservative critics.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/jim-carrey-gets-serious-huffington-post-responding-earnest-fox-news-his-gun-loving-haters-1170069
Cathy Zoi lands at Tom Siebel's C3, after Silver Lake's energy fund :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/WwuoC1XhyrQ/story01.htm
Sponsored post: Unconstrained data center networks for the cloud era :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/3kHLEtrluHk/story01.htm
A Tableau IPO could validate the big data visualization push — or not :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/Q34kGFpGrQU/story01.htm
Ex-Goldman trader pleads guilty :: Former Goldman Sachs trader Matthew Marshall Taylor pleads guilty to defrauding the bank with an $8.3bn (£5.5bn) unauthorised futures trade in 2007.
url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-22019424#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa
Bundesbank launches Deutsche probe :: Central bank investigates claims lender hid up to $12bn in losses during financial crisis by misvaluing credit derivatives
url: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/9d58ab6a-9c78-11e2-9a4b-00144feabdc0.html?ftcamp=published_links%2Frss%2Fhome_europe%2Ffeed%2F%2Fproduct
Gulf states bemoan lack of top-grade ratings :: Saudis and Qataris believe their economies are not being accorded the status they deserve by Moody's, Standard & Poor's and Fitch
url: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/5124033e-9c73-11e2-ba3c-00144feabdc0.html?ftcamp=published_links%2Frss%2Fhome_europe%2Ffeed%2F%2Fproduct
Twitter plays its platform hand, and it is the one holding all the Cards :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/A55E2i_EMv0/story01.htm
Zappos CEO rethinks urban transportation in Vegas with 100 Tesla Model S cars :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/NK_C7g4T8oc/story01.htm
Salz attacks warped top pay at Barclays :: Review of bank's culture and practices recommends that the lender be more transparent and candid, and for the board to engage more closely with the business
url: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/68c2c83c-9c40-11e2-ba3c-00144feabdc0.html?ftcamp=published_links%2Frss%2Fhome_europe%2Ffeed%2F%2Fproduct
What is SignalFuse and why should we care? :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/HWgTLIGxrW8/story01.htm
Facebook's mobile hype, eyeballs and dollars grow. Is that enough? :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/s6HhGABB11I/story01.htm
Triposo's iOS travel guides gain "opinion mining" data and faster OpenStreetMap rendering :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/PuYO40QGAnc/story01.htm
Spanish princess is suspect in fraud case :: Cristina to be formally questioned by judge investigating corruption allegations against her husband, in latest blow for country's royal family
url: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/6b52db20-9c75-11e2-9a4b-00144feabdc0.html?ftcamp=published_links%2Frss%2Fhome_europe%2Ffeed%2F%2Fproduct
Hyundai and Kia in US car recalls :: Hyundai Motor and its Kia Motors affiliate are recalling more than 1.8 million cars and sports utility vehicles in the US.
url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-22017733#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa
Cyprus to receive €1bn from IMF :: Three-year loan is part of €10bn bailout deal agreed with lenders last month that prevented the meltdown of the country's banking sector
url: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/41592686-9c47-11e2-9a4b-00144feabdc0.html?ftcamp=published_links%2Frss%2Fhome_europe%2Ffeed%2F%2Fproduct
Moleskine shares close down on debut :: Shares in upmarket notebook-maker Moleskine closed lower on its first day of stock market trading in Milan, after the company's flotation raised 488m euros.
url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-22013321#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa
London Market Report :: Shares in Vodafone fall 3% after Verizon Communications denies reports that it was mulling a takeover move for the UK mobile operator.
url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-11899862#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa
Cyprus agrees 'challenging' plan :: Cyprus has agreed to a set of "challenging" measures, the IMF says, that will release a 10bn-euro international bailout.
url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-22014500#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa
Verizon denies Vodafone bid interest :: US telecoms group Verizon Communications denies reports that it wants to buy or merge with UK mobile operator Vodafone.
url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-22011558#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa
Sponsored post: Analytics driven application performance monitoring :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/UL6v02oDl50/story01.htm
EU watchdogs need teeth on privacy :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/w_P6xavM7j4/index.html
FT launches "second generation" web app, says online payments will soon be much easier :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/jREH8MvDBYw/story01.htm
Electronic trading to muscle in on corporate debt :: Computer-based trading is muscling in on one of the last bastions of telephone trade between dealers and investors
url: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/576a228a-96fd-11e2-a77c-00144feabdc0.html?ftcamp=published_links%2Frss%2Fhome_europe%2Ffeed%2F%2Fproduct
AT&T updates Samsung Galaxy S 4 pricing, will offer both a 16 and 32 GB model :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/IxCH8up2bcA/story01.htm
Sorry Androids: Jawbone's Big Jambox speaker gains battery life with iOS 6.1 devices :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/CgIYijHj-gg/story01.htm
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