Domestic Resources Mobilization’ to Meet the Developmental Challenges of Ethiopia

Nations in the African continent are worst affected by drought and famine and depends heavily on foreign aid for meeting the hunger and poverty. In recent years, there is a steady decline in the foreign aid and the nations are forced to evolve alternative strategies.Ethiopia is one of the poorest African nations in terms of per capita income and GDP growth has initiated a novel project called ‘Domestic Resources Mobilization’. This project identified the rich water sources within the country and tried to mobilize them to the areas where it is mostly needed. Ethiopia could meet its agricultural and domestic needs and could meet its nutritional needs against declining foreign aid.

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Is Print Readers Declining? A Survey of Indian Online Newspaper Readers

An online study was conducted among 3,183 online newspaper readers of India. The study reveals that majority of the online news consumers(90 percent) were still reading printed newspapers. It was found that online newspapers have not much affected the print newspaper circulation. But print has start losing young readers. 

As per the study 18 percent of 15-20 age group, 12 percent of 20-30 age group and 8 percent of 30-40 age group readers have reduced their interest to read print newspapers, they prefer to read online newspapers. The displacement effect of online media is very low. The older generation above 50 years read both the media equally, while 3 percent readers of 40-50 age groups have reduced use of print newspaper.