Sears, for one, distributed its first general catalogue for home-delivery sales in 1894.

ECONOMIST: Retailers are the top performers online

Analyze UNESCO priorities like Education for All (EFA), Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) and literacy initiative (LIFE) with the view of proposing new ICT-enhanced concepts, content and design, thus adapting delivery strategies to general education programme objectives.

UNESCO: Vacancy : Programme Specialist (17/1/2012) AF/RP/SEN/ED/0023 - (P3)

Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe has called for five-day delivery and other cost-saving overhauls, but has so far failed to gain permission from Congress.

WSJ: Budget Backs Dropping Saturday Mail Service

This form of competition does nothing to serve the general interest in holding down costs, inefficiency and waste in the delivery of medical care.

ECONOMIST: There must be a better way

For her part, the Director-General highlighted the significant role of the UN Resident Coordinators as regards efficient delivery at the field level.

UNESCO: EDUCATION

According to a study by Frank Rijsberman, director-general of the International Water Management Institute in Colombo, Sri Lanka, improving the delivery of clean water and sanitation to the poor would be a highly cost-effective way to use additional aid to developing countries.

ECONOMIST: Economics focus