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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Speech therapy could help save NHS cash :: INVESTMENT in speech and language therapy could help boost the Edinburgh economy by more than £10 million a year, a report has found. (Source: Scotsman.com News - Health)
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'End sexism in architecture' :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/MfyJjQ4cgrs/index.html
How airlines recycle :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/LOCH34D_QX8/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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Take This Job and Love It! :: In a down economy, when your job loses its lustre, it's worth taking a new approach to it. (Source: Psychology Today)
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Spending on Physician Services Crawls Out of RecessionSpending on Physician Services Crawls Out of Recession :: A slowly improving economy helped explain a 3.6% increase in spending on physician services in 2011 compared with 2.8% in 2010, says CMS. Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
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Global shares rally on Germany, yen :: Global shares rallied Tuesday on strong German data and Japanese stocks jumping above a peak last seen nearly five years ago.
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UK should quit EU, says Lord Lawson :: Ex-Chancellor Lord Lawson calls for the UK to leave the European Union - but Downing Street says the PM remains confident his renegotiation strategy "will deliver results".
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Glass, Lewis calls for Dimon to split roles :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/Wn6DpkQ2e1s/index.html
Where are your five nines now? CenturyLink's nationwide outage affects millions :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/3QWNX8zuSBU/story01.htm
Need instant Wi-Fi? Boingo makes it an iTunes in-app purchase :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/FNXWreqnYng/story01.htm
France's Hollande could hit core voters :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/0waXOf3soPk/index.html
Debt worries 'feature payday loans' :: Twice as many people who sought help with debts in 2012 had payday loans compared with a year earlier, a charity says.
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STMicro taps Quantenna's gigabit Wi-Fi technology for future chips :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/1ztP2fBpz0U/story01.htm
New tool uses big data to predict student performance :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/UULeIayaqqg/story01.htm
Evan Williams on Medium: "The magazine is the analog for what we're doing" :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/OZayTxLGXy0/story01.htm
If Apple decides to make a television, Foxconn will be ready to build it :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/vCVo6b-l8uw/story01.htm
Asian sales boost Carlsberg profits :: Danish brewer Carlsberg returns to profit in the first quarter of the year, helped by strong sales growth in Asia.
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