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Tajikistan: Clean energy project lights up rural lives

DUSHANBE, Tajikistan – United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Administrator Helen Clark this week visited a hydro power plant which provides a regular supply of clean energy to a rural community 30 kilometres south of Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan. “The hydro plant is very important to al more

Op-Ed: The renewable future

By Achim Steiner, Helen Clark and Kandeh Yumkella NAIROBI: Renewable energy triggers sharply polarized views. For some, it is a costly white elephant; for others, it is humanity’s savior, promising to emancipate us (and our environment) from the “folly” of fossil fuels. So a hardheaded, credible, an more

Clark appoints Khalid Malik as head of Human Development Report

United Nations Development Programme Administrator Helen Clark has appointed Khalid Malik of Pakistan as the Director of the Human Development Report Office. Malik is currently serving as Special Advisor with the UNDP Partnerships Bureau, after completing his assignment early last year as UN RC/RR C more

Tax shake-up could give poor countries head start on anti-poverty track

Istanbul - Reforming how countries manage customs and tax revenues and strengthening anti-corruption and oversight measures could help reduce illicit funds flows, amounting to billions of dollars per year, from least developed countries (LDCs). Recommendations for customs and tax reform are put forw more

UNDP deeply saddened by deadly attack in Afghanistan

United Nations personnel working in Afghanistan were killed after demonstrators attacked a UN compound on Friday in the country’s northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif. “I am deeply shocked by the horrific killings of UN colleagues and security personnel,” said Helen Clark, Administrator of the United Nat more

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