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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 ... |
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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 ... |
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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 strategy and policy development, told a press conference after a meeting of representatives of the three bodies here.
"We must implement and execute projects (to reduce poverty in Asia) swiftly and speedily while continuing our dialogue with civic organisations and non governmental organisations (NGOs) over what we can do to help."
Nishimoto and his counterparts from the World Bank and Japan's finance ministry met to review NGO-led projects ... |
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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 Environment Outlook (AEO), rapid development in Asia ... |
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