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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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.
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Ticket machine card fraud rise in EU :: Several European countries have reported a rise in card crime at ticket machines and petrol pumps, says a study.
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SPL pursue Rangers legal costs :: The Scottish Premier League pursue costs for their investigation into undisclosed payments to Rangers players.
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Qatar flexing its regional clout :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/ZqSdmcYcOGA/
Latecomer wins FIFA goal-line deal :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/P-B9Xe45y-Y/index.html
With food safety bill, U.S. government will spend nearly $1 million per person to prevent food-borne illness deaths :: (NaturalNews) The recently-passed Food Safety Modernization Act, which was passed in order to prevent food-borne illness deaths in the USA, will cost $1.4 billion over the first five years. But nobody thinks about the economics of the issue. How many people are we going to save by spending this $1.4 billion, even assuming it works?To answer that question, let's look at the food illness fatality figures offered by the CDC:• Out of the 5,000 food-borne illness deaths each year in the United States, only 1,809 are "attributable to foodborne transmission" according to the CDC (http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol5no5/mead.htm#Table%203).• E.coli, which is often quoted in the big scare stories about food safety, only kills 78 people a year through food-borne transmission (52 plus 26, fro...
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From Apple CEO Tim Cook to Ted Nugent, entrepreneurs rock at State of the Union VIDEO :: Who are you going to call when you want to show you're committed to building an economy where innovative companies thrive?
The CEO of Apple, of course. That's what President Bill Clinton did when he invited John Sculley to sit in first lady Hillary Clinton's box at his first State of the Union address in 1993. And it's what President Barack Obama did when he invited current Apple CEO Tim Cook to sit in first lady Michelle Obama's box at tonight's speech.
For Cook's sake, let's hope this honor works… (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines)
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Quiz: Destination Dubai :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/cett7x86gGI/index.html
Local Couple Creates Fertility App To Help Couples Get Pregnant :: var WNVideoCanvas_vid8297947 = new WNVideoWidget("WNVideoCanvas", "WNVideoCanvas_vid8297947", "1");
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The Open and Rocky Road Post-2015 :: What values does a Yemeni journalist who fuelled the Arab Spring hold in common with a former principal of the U.S. National Security Council? And how in turn will they see eye to eye with a Jordanian queen, or the president of Indonesia?
The subjects of this riddle are meeting in Monrovia as part of Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's 27-member High Level Panel of Eminent Person's on the Post-2015 Development Agenda (HLP).
The purpose of the HLP is to lead the discussion around a new framework, the post-2015 development agenda, to replace the expiring Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The HLP's work will culminate with an advisory report to Ban in May 2013.
The meeting, which takes place between Jan. 30 and Feb. 1, is the third in a series of four. Previous meetings took place in Lon...
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Nepal's battle with drug traffickers :: Nepal fights to avoid being called a haven for drug trafficking
url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21963600#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa
European markets at close: 04.04.2013 :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/euronews/en/business/~3/n8ARkFv8rss/
Q&A: Japan's latest stimulus package :: Will Japan's latest stimulus measures work?
url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-22023456#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa
No fresh stimulus measures from BoE :: The Bank of England decides not to expand its stimulus programme of quantitative easing and keeps interest rates unchanged at 0.5%.
url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-22025966#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa
EU suspects state aid in football :: The EU is studying allegations that some top football clubs, including Real Madrid, received state aid in violation of EU competition rules.
url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22024669#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa
Pension reform 'needs explanation' :: The government should do more to explain the new state pension system to the public, a cross-party group of MPs says.
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Qatar's spending spree :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/KlCVG9hz45o/
How science confounded the year's gloom :: Higgs boson and landing Curiosity on Mars are just two of the great achievements of the past 12 monthsIn a year that saw Britain suffer double-dip recession; when crippling debt has risen to threaten a record number of households; when the nation faces losing its triple A credit rating; and the economy of the entire planet continues to flounder, it is hard to find many reasons to be cheerful. The human species, which has made so much of its sparkling intellect in recent decades, could fairly be accused of having made a recent hash of global affairs. It is a justifiable criticism, though it ignores some intriguing contradictory evidence. We forget that some affairs went well in 2012. Indeed, when it came to scientific achievements, the year turns out to have been a sparkling one. Interplane...
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Beyonce, Jay Z Cuba Trip Legality Questioned By Congress :: <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>Beyonce and Jay-Z celebrated their fifth wedding anniversary on April 4 in Havana -- but not without the legality of their Cuban getaway being questioned by some members of the U.S. Congress, multiple media outlets reported.</p>
<p>Mr. and Mrs. Shawn Carter might be known as the King and Queen in the hip-hop and rhythm-and-blues communities, but that doesn't mean they can play tourist in a land to the U.S. government has prohibited travel.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/beyonce-jay-z-cuba-trip-legality-questioned-congress-1175999
Central banks move into riskier assets :: Near-zero interest rates and large-scale money printing cut returns on US government debt and the bonds of safer eurozone sovereigns to record lows
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We need a data democracy, not a data dictatorship :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/7M9W11z1P3k/story01.htm
'Mad Men' Season 6 Premiere: Where Did We Leave Off In Season 5? :: <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>The Season 6 premiere of "Mad Men" -- a two-hour episode – airs Sunday at 9 p.m. EDT. It's been less than a year since Season 5 ended, but in the event that your life does not revolve around the goings-on at Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce, the details of where Don Draper & Co. left off might be a little fuzzy.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/mad-men-season-6-premiere-where-did-we-leave-season-5-1175997
Fidel Castro Urges North Korea Not To Make War With The United States :: <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>Cuba's former leader Fidel Castro warned all parties to the current rhetorical saber rattling on the Korean Peninsula to avoid making war in an open letter published Thursday.</p>
<p>Castro said the current situation represents "one of the most serious dangers of nuclear war" since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis in the letter published by <a href="http://www.granma.cu/ingles/reflections-i/reflections-5abril.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Granma International</a>, the English-language edition of the Cuban Communist Party newspaper.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/fidel-castro-urges-north-korea-not-make-war-united-states-1175991
Calpers to battle zombie boards :: The $255bn pension fund has identified 52 directors who have failed to win shareholder votes but either stayed in place or have been reinstated
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Chinese thirst for formula spurs rationing :: Rampant Chinese demand for foreign-made baby milk has forced UK and Australia grocers to limit sales to two tins of infant milk formula at a time
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Flipboard is a giant iceberg lurking in the path of the media :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/e1WTb6dDySw/story01.htm
Nervous Europe drives demand for dollars :: Surge in demand for US cash suggests world is worried about safety of its banks and future of the euro, but has no fear of inflation in US
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Cyprus reaches end of a long and sleazy road :: The collapse of the Cypriot economy is not the result of a random lurch or shift in axis. It is the end of a path traced in a long, complacent arc of ease and sleaze
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Seoul on alert over North Korea threat :: Pyongyang declares 'state of war' with the South, has blocked access to Kaesong and threatened a nuclear attack on America
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VIDEO: Patent dilemma for India drugs firms :: India introduced a new patent law in 2005, under which several multinational pharmaceutical firms have been denied protection for their medicines.
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