Both Ministers of State for Human Resource Development, Shashi Tharoor and Jitin Prasada, stressed the importance of empowering youth with education, skills and values to cope with unprecedented changes taking place in all spheres of life and build knowledge societies.

UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES

Over the past few years, the UN agencies in Lebanon (UNESCO, UNICEF, UNDP, ILO and UNFPA) have been collaborating on researching the situation of youth in Lebanon not only to support informed decision-making and policy reforms, but also to enhance youth participation in all spheres of public life.

UNESCO: OFFICE IN BEIRUT

Over the past few years, the United Nations agencies in Lebanon (UNESCO, UNICEF, UNDP, ILO and UNFPA) have been collaborating on researching the situation of youth in Lebanon not only to support informed decision-making and policy reforms, but also to enhance youth participation in all spheres of public life.

UNESCO: Social and Human Sciences Events | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

He implemented a radical programme of free-market reforms, removing subsidies, privatising state-owned companies and reducing the role of the state in almost all spheres of the economy.

BBC: Alberto Fujimori in file photo from 1999

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The universal reality is that globally women do have a long, long way to go to achieve equality in all corporate and business spheres (not just finance).

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All three measures were designed to bring some competition to different spheres of the public sector in the belief that this would drive up standards.

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