The final version of World Development Report 2011: Conflict, Security, and Development is now available online.

Women's participation in workforce lowest in South Asia: WB
NEW DELHI: With one million girls 'missing' in India, a World Bank report has cautioned that this continued economic gap between men and women could spell disaster for the country. Female labour force participation is South Asia (including India) is among the lowest in the developing world.

Source : TOI

Number of people affected by TB dropped in 2010
NEW DELHI: First the good news -- the number of people who fell ill with tuberculosis globally dropped to 8.8 million in 2010, after peaking at nine million in 2005. However, in India, the disease still wreaked havoc. It infected over 15 lakh people in 2010 and killed over three lakh.

According to new data, published on Wednesday in the WHO 2011 global tuberculosis control report, India's case detection rate in 2010 was just about 60%. What's most worrying is that 73,000 of the notified new TB cases were already multi drug resistant. Of this less than 3,000 were detected.