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Danish agronomist Per Pinstrup-Andersen has been credited with bringing food and farming issues to the forefront of government agendas in an effort to reduce poverty and hunger.
Pinstrup-Andersen, 62, was named recipient Monday of the World Food Prize, a 250,000-dollar award considered the equivalent of a Nobel Prize in the area of food and agriculture.
The award recognizes his research and advocacy work as "a brilliant catalyst for policy change which jarred the international community out of the complacency prevalent a decade ago," said Kenneth Quinn, president of the World Food Prize Foundation.
Since 1992, he has directed the International Food Policy Research Institute in Washington, a leading think-tank on hunger ... |
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| KARACHI |
Pakistan and the International Monetary Fundare due to wrap up talks Tuesday over the release of the final tranche of a 596 million dollar standby facility, officials said.
They said the IMF, which is due to release the final instalment of 130 million dollars next month, had indicated that a much larger poverty reduction and growth facility (PRGF) was being positively ... |
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| BANGKOK |
Creating "decent work" for Asian workers will help combat poverty and social problems that have worsened in the aftermath of the regional economic crisis, the International Labour Organisation (ILO) said Tuesday.
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Pakistan hopes to receive the last tranche of a 596 million dollar standby facility from the International Monetary Fundnext month following talks with an IMF team this week, officials said Monday.
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| VANCOUVER, British Columbia |
Hundreds of anti-globalization activists gathered here this week for the 2001 Civicus Assembly met Thursday with a top official of the World Bank, one of the agencies most widely condemned by the militants.
Mats Karlsson, the ... |
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| BANGKOK |
(CNN) -- One of the FBI's 10 most-wanted fugitives, an alleged pedophile, was arrested in Bangkok Tuesday, a United States embassy official has confirmed.
Eric Franklin Rosser, 49, a professional jazz and concert pianist, was ... |
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| WASHINGTON |
Diplomats from the U.S., Germany and Australia have been denied extended visas and are preparing to leave Afghanistan without having seen eight Western aid workers being held on charges of proselytizing, the State Department has said.
Since arriving in Kabul last week, the diplomats have been unable to see the eight members of the Shelter Now International assistance group who have been held in Kabul since August 6.
Deputy State Department spokesman Philip Reeker called the denial of access to those jailed "a violation of international norms."
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| KAMPALA |
Rich countries should pay taxes on profits their companies earn from operations in poor countries, Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said at an international investment conference here.
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