In short newly literate women have a positive ripple effect on all development indicators.
There are no UNDP International Human Development Indicators published uniformly and comparatively for Russia.
Instead, it lies below Yemen in the UNDP's ranking of human-development indicators, at 151st in the world.
Most health and human development indicators have shown no significant improvement beyond that which is normal in the midst of an oil boom.
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Following government commitment, UNESCO, in partnership with UNDP, conducted a holistic evaluation of media development in Gabon using the Media Development Indicators (MDI).
When farmers leave the land to work in factories, call centres or almost anywhere else, their incomes and consumption almost always go up, lifting assorted development indicators.
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New global sustainable development goals with new indicators and targets are needed to promote planetary stewardship, which are applied to all levels of governance.
They will contribute to inform UNESCO's decision to support the development of gender sensitive indicators to be used by media organizations and civil society and will be featured on the Women Make the News 2010 website.
Other actions include the facilitation of international cooperation, preparation of a Global Framework on MIL Indicators, development of Guidelines for Preparing National MIL Policies and Strategies, and establishment of an International Clearinghouse on MIL in cooperation with the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations.
The programme will also promote the development of new STI indicators in order to better respond to the specific needs of Member States within their different social, economic and cultural contexts with an overall aim to providing country appropriate policy advice on the formulation and implementation of STI policies, strategies and plans that contribute to building peace, inclusive societies and sustainable development.
The SNA provides a comprehensive accounting framework to compile aggregate indicators relating to economic development, highlighting production, incomes and outlays and their interrelationship.
The research community must be involved in the development of these goals, targets and indicators, recognizing interconnected issues and building on existing measure of well-being.
The company thought it would attract more development (and thus more apps) by offering so many different development options for QNX, but early indicators tell us that it's serving more to confuse devs and users alike.
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The over-reliance on self-reported data is also called into question, and the absence of any meaningful indicators for teaching quality, personal development, or the impact of the alumni network.
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The issue of the relevance of these different indicators used to measure and identify economic and social development is therefore raised.
However, policies and programmes are still confronted with a major challenge: the lack of targeted data and indicators quantifying the relationships and contributions, which has resulted in culture being deprioritized in international development programmes and national development strategies.
On June 8th, the UN Development Programme released a statement showing that progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDG), which were supposed to cut extreme poverty in half and improve social indicators such as education and health care, has been pitifully slow.
These indicators also increasingly serve to legitimise types of intervention and operating modes of aid and policies of development.
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