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| Tuesday, Jun 05, 2001 |
Last Updated: 05/06/2001 11:59 |
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| UNITED NATIONS |
Stressing the potential value of the world's cities, as well as the concentration of poverty there, a new UN report on Monday said national governments should pay more attention to urban development.
Compiled for a three-day special session of the UN General Assembly starting Wednesday, the report, The State of the World's Cities, described cities as "the most complex and potentially rewarding of human artifacts."
But it noted that more than one billion people live in inadequate housing, mostly in slums in Third World mega-cities such as Lagos, forecast to become the third largest metropolis by 2015 as its population swells by almost 10 million.
Lagos, already home to 13.4 million people, comes close to bottom of the report's city development index, scoring 29.3 out of a ... |
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| HARARE |
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe says the International Monetary Fund must be reformed to force it to support developing countries regardless of their political or rights records, the state-owned Herald said Monday.
Mugabe said that unlike the UN, where all members have an equal voice, the IMF is ... |
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| ULAN BATOR |
Filthy, aggressive and dressed in rags, the street children of Ulan Bator are the victims of a Mongolian society riven by domestic violence and torn apart by breakneck social changes.
Typically aged between five and 14, the ... |
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| WASHINGTON |
The World Bank on Friday said it had approved a seven million dollar credit for the Palestinian Authority to improve educational management in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
The funds will support efforts to enhance educational ... |
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| WASHINGTON |
Uganda has been awarded a 150 million dollar credit from the World Bank, the first beneficiary of a new program designed specifically to combat poverty, the Bank announced here Friday.
It said the World Bank's board of directors ... |
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| MOSCOW |
Russia's children are at risk from poverty, crime and disease, with some 2.5 million homeless kids, while only 10 percent of school leavers are said to be healthy, experts warned Friday on World Protection of Children Day.
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| ANKARA |
An IMF mission began talks here Friday on Turkey's progress in implenting an austerity program, one day after a top minister resigned for apparently criticising part of the plan.
The IMF delegation has around 10 days to check progress in implementing structural reforms to haul the economy out of a financial crisis, which seized Turkey in February, Anatolia news agency said.
The International Monetary Fund agreed on May 15 to an eight-billion-dollar fund package for Turkey.
The IMF panel led by Finn official Juha Kahkonen is to decide ... |
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| VILNIUS |
The World Bank is set to suspend granting a second 50 million-dollar (59 million euros) instalment of a structural adjustment loan to Lithuania due to slow progress in energy sector reform, a bank representative said Friday.
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