Half World's People to Live in Cities by 2007 -UN
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Half the world's population will  live in cities in two years, a huge jump from the 30 percent  residing in urban areas in 1950, U.N. demographers reported on  Wednesday.
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Developed countries are giving only half the promised amount to help to slow population growth, the UN says.
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LONDON, Nov 18 (IPS) - Twentieth-century modes of international governance  must be adapted to the new millennium, and the time has come, say  civil society activists, because the United Nations will soon  reach its 60th anniversary, and international institutions like  the World Bank and World Trade Organisation need to be more  democratic.
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Global mobile phone use will pass the 3  billion mark -- equivalent to half the world's population --  for the first time in 2007 as cell phone demand booms in China,  India and Africa, a survey said on Wednesday.
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By 2030, 4 in 10 homes will be under 30 years old, study says. By Matthew Tully. The Indianapolis metropolitan area will be reshaped dramatically in the coming decades as new residential, industrial and commercial
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BRUSSELS, Dec. 13 (IPS) - By 2030, 1.2 billion people in developing countries  will belong to a global middle class, up from 400 million today.  The increase in wealth will make income inequality and  environmental pressures more acute, predicts the World Bank in a  report on 'Managing the Next Wave of Globalisation'.
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Women make up nearly half of the 37.2  million adults living with HIV and in sub-Saharan Africa the  proportion rises to almost 60 percent, according to a UN report  released on Tuesday.
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Men and women in developing  nations are marrying later, having fewer children and having  them later in life, U.N. demographers reported on Tuesday.
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Natural disasters are affecting more and more people, the UN says ahead of a conference on reducing the risks.
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A push by developed nations could cut poverty in half within a generation, the UN says.
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Cities are the future of the world, and slums are the future of the city.
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Rich countries are giving only half the amount they promised to help to slow world population growth, the UN says.
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Asia-Pacific region drives surge Over half of the world's population will have a mobile phone by 2008, according to new research.â¦
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Global mobile phone use will top 3.25  billion -- equivalent to around half the world's population --  in 2007 as cell phone demand booms in China, India and Africa,  a survey said on Wednesday.
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LONDON, Oct 23 (IPS) - Addressing people's rights to the places they  inhabit is one of the new challenges of growing urbanisation,  both in developed and developing countries.
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More must be done more quickly to make the world fit for children by 2015, the UN children's fund Unicef says.
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More than 350,000 people leave the country every year, up almost 50 percent from a decade ago.