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| BEIJING |
Ten percent of China's budget for lifting rural poor out of poverty are being mismanaged or embezzled, a Chinese official said Tuesday, citing a government study.
The study, which looked at how poverty relief funds were spent in 1997 through 1999, found some money was pocketed by corrupt officials and other funds were spent on inappropriate projects, said Jiang Xiaohua, deputy director of China's poverty alleviation and development office.
Jiang, speaking after a press conference, said the amount misused was "just a small proportion of the total."
China has steadily increased the amount of poverty reduction funding to 24.8 billion yuan (2.9 billion dollars) last year from 9.7 billion yuan in
The 112.7 billion yuan the government allocated from 1994 to 2000 was ... |
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| Twenty-two people are killed and more than 100 injured when a bomb ripps through the local offices of the country's ruling Awami League in Narayanganj.
The government has blamed the bomb, the latest in a series to rock the South Asian country, on right-wing parties, but no conclusive links have yet been ... |
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| TOKYO |
The World Bank, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Japanese government said Monday they would tighten their ties to fight poverty, especially in Asia.
"We still have so much to do," Shoji Nishimoto, ADB director of ... |
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| MANILA |
Widespread environmental degradation in the Asia Pacific could hamper economic growth necessary to combat massive poverty in the region, an Asian Development Bank study released Monday said.
According to the ADB's Asian ... |
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| SOFIA, Bulgaria |
| The party of former Bulgarian king Simeon II won a general election Sunday by gaining more than 45 percent of the popular vote, with just over half of the ballots counted, the national election commission said.
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| SHIBCHAR, Bangladesh |
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed, whose five-year term ends next month, Saturday said if she was voted back to power Bangladesh's development would continue.
"If you vote the Awami League back to power the spree of development ... |
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| SOFIA |
Bulgarian voters weary of poverty and corruption are expected on Sunday to return former king Simeon II to the political stage after 55 years in exile, at the head of coalition of political novices.
Opinion polls predict the former king's coalition will win the ballot, following years of painful economic belt-tightening under post-communist governments.
For the first time since the fall of communism in 1989, Bulgarians have been presented with an alternative to the two traditional pillars of political life -- Prime Minister Ivan Kostov's United ... |
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| BANJA LUKA, Bosnia-Hercegovina |
Over 95 percent of people in the Bosnian Serb entity within Bosnia-Hercegovina live in poverty, according to a survey published on Saturday in daily Glas Srpski.
Under the 1995 Dayton accords which ended a three-year war in ... |
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