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Natural resource endowments more a curse than blessing for developing nations
24 Jul 2025 00:56 GMT
The world’s superpowers have developed a seemingly insatiable appetite for the critical minerals that are essential to the ongoing energy and digital transitions, including rare earth metals (for semiconductors), cobalt (for batteries), and uranium (for …
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Energy efficiency is the key to achieving affordable, secure power in developing nations – World Bank
23 Jul 2025 14:19 GMT
Energy efficiency, whether in home heating or industry, accounts for only a fraction of energy investments in emerging economies, according to the World Bank
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The report makes the case for governments to place energy …
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India's Viksat Bharat 2047: A Blueprint for Development and Job Creation
23 Jul 2025 12:31 GMT
… and a vision that many developing nations aspire to.
The journey … million jobs, and they have been focusing on labour that … poverty-stricken than previously.
Employment in the agricultural and … intelligence which threatens many jobs, portfolios, and tasks …
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W’Bank: 30% of Project Jobs in Developing Countries Must Go to Local Labour
21 Jul 2025 20:31 GMT
… workers.
This aims to boost job creation and skills development in developing countries … tackle job shortages in developing countries.
Companies … local labour in procurement, developing nations like … of employment opportunities for construction workers, …
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Peak summer brings heat warning for outdoor workers and the elderly in the UAE
22 Jul 2025 19:11 GMT
… 15, employers have been told to restrict their workers’ … The outcome of the labour court proceedings can directly … trend in the developing world as western lifestyles … social, environmental development of developing countries.
Key facilities
Olympic …
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Between Sectors, Between Worlds: The Significance of Seasonal Labor in India
22 Jul 2025 07:29 GMT
… is especially true for cheap labor.
Second, many of the … reflects the pace of a developing country’s growth, and so … rural-urban migrant workers as having no permanent jobs in the … the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) that …
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Women’s participation in the labour force: It’s too risky to let it languish
21 Jul 2025 10:15 GMT
… World Bank 2024).
However, developing nations like Vietnam and Bangladesh show … 92% rural women workers were either self-employed (73.5%) … women were self-employed, seeking jobs in the services … such as self-employment and agricultural labour are more readily …
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They made America's clothing. Now they are getting punished for it.
24 Jul 2025 00:16 GMT
… of garment workers across Asia fear for their jobs as a … the garment industry – which directly employs some 350,000 people – … share of their markets for developing countries like Sri Lanka. The … the industry: poverty and weak labour rights in Cambodia, and …
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‘Intelligence too cheap to meter’ is AI’s next frontier, Sam Altman says
23 Jul 2025 23:53 GMT
… and its implications for finance, employment, and society at large. … for critical processes.
On job disruption, Altman was candid … predicting that some classes of jobs will vanish and others … “In a lot of the developing world, the alternative to a ChatGPT …
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Going for it! I earned a competitive travel scholarship and landed in Kathmandu
23 Jul 2025 23:50 GMT
… in Sidhuwad was a social worker who went against traditional norms … ;t get education, job opportunities beyond manual labor, nor any other chance … for many years in a developing country, I did not register the …