Climate change laws around the world

There has been a 20-fold increase in the number of global climate change laws since 1997, according to the most comprehensive database of relevant policy and legislation.

The database, produced by the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment and the Sabin Center on Climate Change Law, includes more than 1,200 relevant policies across 164 countries, which account for 95% of global greenhouse gas emissions.

Bangladesh Difficult business environment weighs on economic performance

Bangladesh

Difficult business environment weighs on economic performance

Sri Lanka Year in Review 2016

India's banks in 2014

Two new players have been admitted into the Indian banking sector in 2014, but declining profitability part the country's existing lenders in the completed 12 months does not appear to be inspiring much confidence in the industry. The Banker talks to chief executives at both established and new institutions, and discusses completed performance and next plans.

Tourism to Nepal is large business.

Tourism to Nepal is large business. This counts not only for the a lot of honest tour operators, hotel executives and tour guides, but as well for those that run illegal scams in that mountain Himalayan country.

Nepal’s poverty index is probably one of the highest in the world, despite its rich water resources and the abundance of plant life. Political instability has made matters worse and the next affects of a communists insurgency has left a lasting legacy of disability and a lot of maimed and disabled for a lifetime. Poverty and a pretty high illiteracy rate have added to growing unemployment figures as per government statistics.

Sri Lanka’s violent ethnic conflict came to an end in mid-2009,

Sri Lanka’s violent ethnic conflict came to an end in mid-2009, at the same time as the separatist LTTE was militarily defeated by the Sri Lankan security forces. Following the end of the decades-long war, the country has been faced with the twin challenges of development and national integration.

For Sri Lanka presently, the country’s education system has become the major factor affecting both its development process and national integration.

New chief justice of Pakistan

At the same time as the new chief justice of Pakistan took oath of office on 12 December 2013 Pakistan completed an historic changeover during a year that saw the initial civilian government in 67 years complete its constitutionally mandated term. 2013 as well saw Pakistan get a new prime minister, president and chief of army staff. Perhaps no other country has experienced such a total change of its constitutional officers within a schedule year.

Trimax targets inclusive IT advances

Kirloskar Brothers Ltd Engineering leader advocates industrial, environmental change

Maharashtra Industry Why foreign investors choose Maharashtra as their investment destination of choice

"As far as industry is concerned, Maharashtra has been the undisputed leader for a lot of years in a row presently. We are number one and will retain this position."
"Foxconn has decided to invest $5 billion in Maharashtra. This is one of the major investments in recent times."

From its pro-business environment and bureaucratic streamlining to its highly educated and skilled workforce and bureaucratic streamlining, Maharashtra offers a complete ecosystem for investors. The national’s Minister of Industries, Subhash Desai, explains its draw for investors and which areas are presently prime for next increase.

Bangladesh has come a long way since it gained independence in 1971

United World gathers the opinions of some of Bangladesh’s most significant business leaders from across the economic spectrum, from textiles and pharmaceuticals to aviation, telecoms, and finance. They share their thoughts on the country’s evolution, its image in the world media and the vital role the private sector is playing in the country’s development

Governor of Bangladesh Bank, Dr. Atiur Rahman

As Dr. Atiur Rahman is honored by invitation to speak at the spring meetings of the IMF and World Bank, United World looks at how the finance sector has worked with the Governor to ensure inclusive increase. As the only Central Bank Governor speaking at the meetings, we look at the Bangladesh financial sector from the perspective of the top management of 13 key financial institutions in Bangladesh. From international and national owned, to commercial; there is one thing that they all acknowledge upon – inclusive increase within the financial sector is reducing poverty and driving economic increase at over 6% per year. Over the next week, United World will feature a different financial institution on each day, with the following a summary of selected quotes from each exclusive interview.

Zaheer Dodhia, CEO – MycroBurst.com

MycroBurst has launched its crowdsourcing platform for graphic design in the Arabic language. It is the prime crowdsourcing platform to do so. Zaheer Dodhia, CEO of MycroBurst.com, says: “This is an inexpensive and exciting new way of sourcing branding and logos. We have a lot of customers based in the Middle East and North Africa, and we want to be able to provide service in Arabic to make MycroBurst additional user friendly. We work with a number of designers who can read and write Arabic.”