Archive for November, 2007

India Shows No Improvement in Human Development Index

November 28th, 2007

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!India has been ranked a disappointing 128th in the latest United Nations Human Development Index rubbing shoulders with the likes of Chad and Burkina Faso. More disappointingly, there has been virtually no improvement from last year.
The entire ranking can [...]

Rohit in Development, Health |

Gender Bender in South Korea

November 28th, 2007

Preferences for the male child is common across almost all Asian countries. Despite the economic growth of the recent decades, the situation hasn’t really improved and in some cases has actually deteriorated. But South Korea finally seems to be bucking the trend,
In South Korea, once one of Asia’s most rigidly patriarchal societies, a centuries-old preference [...]

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