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| MADRAS, India |
Indian Home Minister Lal Krishna Advani said here Friday that India and arch rival Pakistan should put aside their differences and focus on fighting poverty.
"When the entire world has come to realize the importance of inter-dependence between nations and synergy, why not India and Pakistan?," Advani, the cabinet number two, told a trade meeting in this southern city.
"Trade and commerce have a very important role in giving shape to the mutual relations of the two countries," he added.
India and Pakistan established a joint trade forum during a historic bus trip undertaken by Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee to the Pakistani city of Lahore in February 1999 aimed at easing tensions.
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| BELGRADE |
Almost one million people living in Serbia are poor, earning only 55 dollars per month, a tenfold increase over a decade ago, a survey presented Friday showed.
Another million -- out of a total population of eight million -- live close to the poverty line.
One third -- or about 300,000 people -- of those in poverty have no more than one dollar per day to ... |
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| UNITED NATIONS |
Poverty, war and AIDS threaten to undermine a decade of progress in the health and education of children, the United Nations children's fund UNICEF said in a report released Thursday.
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| MANILA |
Britain and the Asian Development Bankapproved the establishment of a 20-million-pound (27.6-million-dollar) fund aimed at reducing poverty in India, the ADB said here Thursday.
The fund would go towards financing technical ... |
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| TOKYO |
Malaysian Prime Minister and acting Finance Minister Mahathir Mohamad proposed here Thursday the creation of agencies to collect taxes from wealthy traders to help poor countries to develop.
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| WASHINGTON |
Wealthy and developing countries alike must find new approaches to reforming state pension plans to keep the elderly out of poverty and avoid a collapse of the programs, according to a World Bank report released Wednesday.
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| UNITED NATIONS |
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan on Wednesday recommended public-private partnerships, the empowerment of women and extended property rights as ways of tackling the poverty in the world's growing cities.
"Today, urban areas are the major driving forces of development and globalisation," he told a special three-day session of the UN General Assembly.
"But with the shift to cities, many of society's inequities and ills and becoming more and more urban."
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| KHAN YUNIS, Gaza Strip |
As Mohammed Shawaf unloaded heavy flour sacks from a UN Palestinian relief agency truck in this poverty-stricken town, at the frontline of recent fighting, he vowed "the resistance will continue."
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