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Flipkart partners with Ministry of Rural Development to get women businesses into e-commerce fold

Financial Express 02 Nov 2021
Ease of Doing Business for MSMEs. Launched in 2019, Flipkart said the Samarth programme is currently supporting the livelihoods of over 9,50,000 artisans, weavers, and craftsmen across India ... .
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UNWTO/BCC Forum Highlights Gastronomy Tourism as Driver of Rural Development (UNWTO - World Tourism Organization)

Public Technologies 02 Nov 2021
) UNWTO/BCC Forum Highlights Gastronomy Tourism as Driver of Rural Development ... To ensure that gastronomy tourism can grow as a driver of rural development, participants recognized the need to strengthen coordination between tourism, agricultural and rural development policies at the global, national, and local levels.
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Building climate resilience in the Asia Pacific region

Reliefweb 02 Nov 2021
The , reviews the key results and lessons learned from the IFAD-supported Adaptation for Smallholder Agricultural Programme (ASAP) which ran from 2012 to 2017 and invested US$ 305 million in targeted rural development projects that needed support in adapting and mitigating the effects of climate change on rural communities.
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[Funding alert] Rural tech startup VilCart raises Rs 15 Cr from Nabventures, others

Your Story 02 Nov 2021
Nabventures Fund, a venture capital fund started by the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) has led a Rs 15 crore funding round for rural-economy focused technology platform VilCart Solutions ... "The rural distribution channel of consumer goods is offline, fragmented and broken at multiple levels.
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Many challenges facing new family planning policy

China Daily 02 Nov 2021
Many rural people believe the central leadership's goal to promote common prosperity indicates that it will invest more on less-developed rural areas to improve infrastructure facilities and services for disadvantaged groups such as farmers, thus making their retired life worry-free.
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Carrying water for long distance now a thing of the past for 490 households in West Guadalcanal

Reliefweb 02 Nov 2021
“Supporting rural community development is a key priority for Australia, and we are pleased to have been able to support this important work in partnership with the National Government through the MECDM and the NDMO, the Guadalcanal Provincial Administration, UNDP and ADRA,” said Acting High Commissioner Vincent.
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Over 70pc water sources in AJK’s capital contaminated: minister

The News International 02 Nov 2021
Quoting a recent study by the Pakistan Council of Research in Water Resources, Azad Jammu and Kashmir Minister for Local Government and Rural Development Khawaja Farooq Ahmad has said more than 70 percent of drinking water sources in Muzaffarabad, mostly the natural springs, were bacteriologically contaminated.
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Xinhua Headlines: China on fast track to cut energy consumption intensity

China.dot.org 02 Nov 2021
In the latest move, the authorities have issued a guideline underpinning green development in urban and rural areas, setting the goals of basically establishing institutional mechanisms and policy systems for green development in urban and rural areas by 2025, while green development will cover urban and rural areas in a comprehensive way by 2035.
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Stakeholders explore landscape approach to a sustainable future for Greater Kumasi

Joy Online 02 Nov 2021
The Bureau of Integrated Rural Development (B.I.R ... The Bureau of Integrated Rural Development (B.I.R.D) at the KNUST, in collaboration with the PBL Netherlands Environmental Agency organized a multi-stakeholder workshop on planning and shared vision for inclusive development of Greater Kumasi landscape.
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Musk’s Starlink registers India unit, targets rural districts

Business Line 02 Nov 2021
Starlink separately said it will focus on “catalysing rural development” in India through its broadband services, according to a company presentation shared by Bhargava on LinkedIn over the weekend. Once it is allowed to provide services, Starlink will, in the first phase, give 100 devices for free to schools in Delhi and nearby rural districts.
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Elon Musk's Starlink registers India unit, plans to focus on rural areas

Live Mint 02 Nov 2021
Will focus on rural areas TRENDING STORIESSee All ... Starlink separately said it will focus on "catalyzing rural development" in India through its broadband services, according to a company presentation shared by Bhargava on LinkedIn over the weekend ... It will then target 12 rural districts across India.
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Greenville farmers, once vehemently opposed to zoning, push county to add 'AG' designation

The Post and Courier 02 Nov 2021
They want that to continue that for the next generations but fear the onslaught of development that has crept north from Greenville will forever change the rural lifestyle they enjoy ... In 2016, an effort by some Tigerville residents to consider rural residential zoning to protect their properties from future development failed to gain traction.
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Mohd Uzir: Can gauge poverty statistics via development imbalance

Malaysian National News Agency 02 Nov 2021
... can be known through the imbalance of development in the states and regions as well as urban and rural areas especially in terms of the facilities needed.
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Egypt, US sign seven grant agreements at $125 mln

Egypt Independent 02 Nov 2021
... cooperation for science and technology, $13 million for improving health outcomes, $27 million for economic governance, and five million dollars for agricultural business and rural development, and $28 million to stimulate the trade and investment environment in Egypt.
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MA Education, International Development and Social Justice

Reliefweb 02 Nov 2021
... relationship between education, international development and social justice within global contexts ... This is particularly the case for girls, the poor and young people from rural and marginalised communities living in developing countries and societies affected by conflict.
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