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| Tuesday, Jun 12, 2001 |
Last Updated: 12/06/2001 22:53 |
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| BANGKOK |
Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said Tuesday that Asia must break out of its economic "straightjacket" of dependence on foreign exports if it is to overcome poverty.
Thaksin said regional development depended on new policies that encourage investment in the private sector, which is still recovering from the economic crisis of 1997-98.
"Asia, and in particular the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), must break out of this straightjacket," he said in a keynote address to the third Asian Development Forum in Bangkok.
"We must begin to redesign our response to overcome the problem of poverty while increasing our capacity to develop and grow and pay our debts in a more sustainable and efficient manner."
Thaksin said that Asia must forge interdependent economies and cut down on competition between Asian nations based on the offer of cheap labor.
"We must reject paupering each other through cut-throat export price competition to supply others by selling the future of our poor for a pittance," he said.
"A more interactive and interdependent Asia will be nimbler, more efficient ... |
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| SOFIA |
Bulgarians vote next Sunday in elections led by an ex-king promising salvation from grinding poverty 11 years after the collapse of communism -- but critics slam his pledges as populist and unrealistic.
The impoverished Balkan country's outgoing leaders claim former king Simeon II, who fled Bulgaria after World War II, no longer knows his homeland but is winning over desperate voters by offering impossible dreams.
But after four years of painful reforms by the outgoing centre-right government many voters are being swayed by those promises. ... |
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In the Face of an Aborigine - Australia
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| Stephan Nikolov |
Kumanovo, a town in the north of Macedonia (FYROM), world-wide known as a place where 10 June, 1999 the Military-Technical agreement between NATO and S.R. Yugoslavia was signed.
Herewith terminating NATO bombing campaign of ... |
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| SYDNEY |
Two of Australia's most prominent Aboriginal leaders have clashed publicly over whether demands for legal and political rights are the best solution to indigenous poverty and health problems.
For more than a year, Aboriginal ... |
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| ADDIS ABABA |
The launch of the African Union had created an opportunity to build a "solid partnership" across the continent, to promote peace and combat poverty and AIDS, the OAU secretary general said here Monday.
Salim Ahmed Salim, ... |
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| TOKYO |
| International donors including the World Bank and International Monetary Fund should change their approach to helping Cambodia because their efforts have had little impact on grinding poverty, the country's opposition leader said ... |
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| TEHRAN |
Conservative candidate Ahmad Tavakoli, who arrived second in Iran's presidential election in Iran, congratulated President Mohammad Khatami on his re-election Sunday, but added he would continue his fight against poverty and official corruption.
In a declaration on state television, Tavakoli, 50, thanked the people for having "favourably responded to his appeal to fight against corruption within the system".
Reformist president Khatami, was re-elected with 77 percent of the vote, while Tavakoli was a distant runner-up with 15.6 percent.
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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 ... |
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