Tuesday, November 5, 2024

Govt eyes to cut joblessness by half, poverty by 2/3rds by 2030

The government targets to cut unemployment and underemployment by 50 per cent and the poverty headcount by two-thirds by 2030 under a draft post-2015 development agenda. The Planning Commission has already framed a draft of the country’s post-2015 development agenda which the United Nations may adopt after

Unemployment world’s fastest rising fear

Unemployment is the world’s fastest-rising worry, a BBC World Service survey covering 11,000 people in 23 countries suggests. The annual poll, called The World Speaks, gave people a list of concerns and asked which they had discussed with friends or family in the past month. Corruption and poverty still ranked the highest, but unemployment was ... Read more