Bulgaria Among Lowest Income Countries in OECD Survey of 42 Nations
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Bulgaria is among the countries with lowest incomes according to a latest report on 42 nations by the Organisation for economic Co-operation and Development, the Sofia daily Sega said Wednesday.
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Poland's government will spend up to $6bn over seven years to boost the birth-rate, currently the EU's lowest.
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Norway is the most expensive country in Europe and Lithuania is the cheapest, says a report of business news service Bloomberg.
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BBC Europe editor Mark Mardell assesses a UN report on children's well-being that puts the UK bottom of the class.
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Bulgaria, which owes $9.3 billion in government foreign debt, has to collect some $2 billion of non-performing debts from Third World countries, an official said Thursday.
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The United States and Britain ranked at the bottom of a U.N. survey released Wednesday evaluating the well-being of children in wealthy countries.
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Global economic policy, low competitiveness of Macedonian economy and development policy for overcoming of poverty in the country are the strategic issues of the project for economic policy and development of ...
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Slovakia and Colombia are the countries who have improved their business climates the most in the past year, a World Bank report says.
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Bulgaria in Brief: 16 September 2004, Thursday. The Italian Red Cross donated to its Bulgarian colleagues EUR 106,000. The sum will be used to help old Bulgarians living alone in their homes.
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In this poor Balkan country set to join the European Union in January, brazen slayings _ along with gang shootouts and car and apartment bombings _ have almost become part of the fabric of everyday life.Comment
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The gap between rich and poor in Britain is the widest for 40 years, with a growing number of people living below the poverty line, a report said Tuesday.
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Bulgaria and Romania, two of Europe's poorest countries, will try to recoup billions of dollars in debt from Iraq despite a call by the Paris Club of creditor states to mostly wipe the slate clean, officials ...
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Overall rankings from the UNICEF report on child welfare in 21 industrialized countries.
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Despite some improvements in its education system, Germany has fallen behind other western nations, a new report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said. According to the OECD, 40-plus percent of young people in countries such as Denmark, Australia, Italy, the Netherlands and Poland complete university courses. The organization noted, however, that graduation rates tended to be "highest in countries where programs are of short duration.""By contrast, in Germany and Austria, where programs are longer, only 20 percent of young people get degrees," the OECD noted.
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SLOVAKIA is half as rich as European Union countries on average. While analysts say it might take the nation decades to catch up with the wealthiest European countries, some are positive that it will happen.
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BRUSSELS, Jun 26 (IPS) - The European Union is failing to prioritise health  and education in its plans for spending aid in poor countries,  according to a new study.
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GENEVA, Oct 23 (IPS) - Rich countries have failed to carry out reform of  their domestic farm subsidies programmes to reduce distortions in  global trade, says a senior official of the Paris-based  Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), a  grouping of 30 wealthy nations.