Development

Bulgaria ranks 58th in the list of countries in the 2014 Human Development Report (HDR) released on 24 July in Tokyo.

The HDR covers 187 countries across the world and is published annually by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

Bulgaria belongs to the group of countries characterized by high human development.

Governments must act together to lift more people out of poverty and reduce inequality in a world where the 85 richest people have as much wealth as the 3.5 billion poorest people, the UNDP says Improvements in life spans, education and incomes are slowing due to natural disasters, misguided government policies and worsening inequality in a world where the 85 richest people have as much

Health and agriculture development are key if African countries are to overcome poverty and grow, US software billionaire Bill Gates said Thursday, as he received an honourary degree in Ethiopia.
      

The long awaited event has happened.

Five developing countries, Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, also called BRICS have challenged the IMF and World Bank.

At the annual summit at Brazil’s Fortaleza city, the BRICS countries stated they have founded a multilateral development bank.

A new United Nations report says that the world population is increasingly urban with more than half living in urban areas, a proportion that is expected to increase to 66 percent by 2050 More than half of the world’s seven billion people live in urban areas, with the top “mega cities” - with more than 10 million inhabitants - being Tokyo, Delhi, Shanghai, Mexico City and Sao Paulo

The President of the United Nations' (UN) General Assembly, John W. Ashe, is going to pay a working visit to Romania at the end of July, the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change (MMSC) announced in a press release on Thursday.

Regional differences in demograpic characteristics of Turkey’s poorest segments, which constitutes 16.3 percent of society according to 2012 data, has been laid by a ministry study

FM attends UN Economic and Social Council meeting

NEW YORK -- Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ivica Dačić is in New York where he is attending a two-day meeting of the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC).

He met with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and UN Development Program Administrator Helen Clark on Monday.

BELGRADE - Serbia's Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic is in New York, attending a two-day meeting of the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), where he met with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and UN Development Programme Administrator Helen Clark on Monday.

BELGRADE - Serbia's Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic will attend a two-day meeting of the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) in New York starting on Monday and inform the members of the council about the extent of the damage caused by the May floods in Serbia and also invite them to take part in the donor conference in Brussels on July 16.