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 Wednesday, Sep 19, 2001
Zambia - poverty - summit
Zambia to hold summit on reducing national poverty
LUSAKA
The Zambian government has said it will host a national summit next month on reducing poverty in the impoverised southern African country.
The summit, to be attended by a cross-section of Zambian society, will be held between October 15-18, Boniface Nonde, permanent secretary in the ministry of finance, said on Tuesday.
He said the summit will "establish why poverty still looms large even after the strong efforts in the past to eradicate it".
The Zambian government has come up with a draft document called the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP), which will be tabled at the summit.
Zambia is one of the most indebted and impoverished of African countries with an estimated 75 percent of its people classified as ...
Malawi - poverty
Malawi economic experts warn of worsening poverty
LILONGWE
Malawi's economic experts Monday warned of increased poverty in their donor-dependent country, as they prepare to ask donors for a billion dollars in debt relief.
The economists are drafting a paper on poverty reduction to be submitted to donors in December, which they hope will make Malawi eligible for one billion US dollars in debt relief.
"Malawians living ...
Asia - poverty
Asia makes progress in reducing poverty: Asian Development Bank
SINGAPORE
Asia's unrelenting industrialisation march in the 1990s was a big catalyst in reducing poverty in the region, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) says.
In particular, countries that have pursued "prudent" pro-market economic ...
Terrorist attacks
President tours New York devastation
New York
(CNN) -- A crowd of rescuers chanted "USA, USA" as President Bush thanked everyone working Friday at ground zero of the devastated World Trade Center that was hit by hijacked planes flown by terrorists.
As he stood on a pile of rubble ...

Terrorist attacks
Two planes crashed into the World Trade Center towers in Manhattan
New York
Two planes crashed into the World Trade Center towers in Manhattan on Tuesday in what President Bush called "an apparent terrorist attack on our country."
About an hour after those crashes, an explosion forced the evacuation of the ...
Canada - children
Nearly one in five Canadian kids still living in poverty: report
OTTAWA
Nearly 20 percent of Canadian children live in poverty even though their country is one of the richest in the world, a welfare group claimed Monday.
The National Council of Welfare, an independent but government-funded group, ...
Malaysia
Unease at Malaysia's megadam
KUCHING
As the dam rises on Sarawak's controversial $2.4 billion Bakun hydro-electric project so does the concern.
In total 11,000 people, most of them from native tribes, are on the move from Malaysia's biggest infrastructure project.....
in a resettlement scheme that they say is a recipe for poverty.
As the first stage of construction pounds the Rajang River under a sea of silt and rubble the displaced communities wonder if or when the promised dam jobs will materialize.
When an area of forestland equal to Singapore is committed to a watery grave the ...
USA
Oprah: No wedding plans for now
USA
(CNN) -- She's one of the wealthiest women in the world. She created a talk-show powerhouse, established a motion picture acting career, and the merest mention of a book title from her can move hundreds of thousands of copies.
And ...
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