Clinton Global Initiative hears pledges
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Some pledges were huge, such as a commitment from the Florida Power &amp; Light Co. to build a solar power plant as part of a $2.4 billion clean energy program.
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Anti-poverty and anti-globalisation campaigners meeting at a parallel forum to counter the G8 summit on Wednesday took industrialised nations to task over unfulfilled pledges made two years ago to the world&#39;s poorest.
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A donor conference on Haiti pledges to increase efficiency in the use of funds for the country.
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Former United States President Bill Clinton speaks at the conclusion of a forum titled New Thinking on Energy Policy: Meeting the Challenges of Security, Development, and Climate Change, at New York University in New York, Monday, Dec. 6, 2004.
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Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton's remarks Saturday after the Nevada caucuses, as transcribed by CQ Transcriptions.
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Secretary-General Kofi Annan said yesterday that the United Nations had received pledges of $500 million to pay for emergency assistance to victims of the south Asia earthquake and tsunami.
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Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton on Sunday renewed her pledge to ensure the United States fulfills its obligations to veterans.
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UNITED NATIONS : The presidents of Brazil and France called for new efforts to fight poverty and hunger in the developing world, including the controversial creation of an international tax, to combat the negative effects of globalization.
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New York - About $500m has been pledged for victims of the earthquake-tsunami disaster in Southeast Asia, including a $250m commitment from the World Bank, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said on Thursday.
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(InfoWorld) - U.S. Senator and presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton said the U.S. is not just a market for foreign companies to sell into but to invest in as well. In a satellite TV address to a conference of Indian business leaders gathered in Santa Clara, California, Clinton said Friday that many global businesses are eager to sell to American consumers, while at the same time American jobs are being exported to lower wage countries. Offshoring eliminates good-paying jobs in the U.S. and threatens the middle class, she said. While the U.S. accounts for only 5 percent of the world's population, it accounts for about 20 percent of the world's gross domestic product, a measure of economic activity. "Countries around the world rely on our marketplace and Americans are literally fueling economic growth throughout the world," Clinton said. "We can promote shared prosperity and a race to the top, not to the bottom." Rather than just sell to Americans, foreign companies should establish business operations in the U.S., which has a highly educated and highly productive workforce and efficient capital markets, Clinton said. "I have serious concerns about creating good jobs right here in the United States." The Democratic candidate's audience was an estimated 4,000 attendees at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) 2007 Global Conference, which concluded a three-day run Sunday. IIT, an engineering and science school founded in 1950, operates seven campuses throughout India. The alumni association, PAN IIT, hosted the conference. Of 100,000 IIT alumni, 25 percent of them live and work in the U.S. Clinton was the only one of the 2008 U.S. presidential candidates to accept an invitation to speak at the conference, organizers said. The group is trying to take a more proactive role in public policy issues. "I think our political involvement has lagged behind our overall presence and economic involvement in the country. I'm glad our political activity is catching up to what it should be," said Rajat Gupta, former managing director of the consulting firm McKinsey & Co. and a conference organizer. The Indian business group won Clinton's support for increasing the number of H1-B visas granted annually in the U.S. to 115,000 from 65,000 now. Some U.S. companies say they need to hire highly skilled engineers from India and other countries because of a shortage of them in the U.S. Unfortunately, that increase was one of many provisions in the immigration reform bill that died in the U.S. Congress June 28. PAN IIT hopes the H1-B increase can be brought back as a separate piece of legislation. Clinton also called for encouraging American students to study math, engineering and science to prepare them for more tech industry jobs in the future. She also called for specific outreach to female and minority students kept under a glass ceiling preventing them from advancing to good paying tech jobs. "I think that's important. In fact, I'm trying to break a very high and very hard ceiling myself," she said.
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Another member of the Bush family is getting cozy with former President Clinton. First lady Laura Bush joins the former president as a keynote speaker opening his three-day Clinton Global Initiative in New York next week.
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The United Kingdom announced on Thursday that it has "brought forward" to this year $5.3 million of its 2005 pledge to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria to help ensure that the United ...
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Former U.S. President Bill Clinton   secured nearly $2 billion in commitments on Wednesday to tackle   a variety of global problems after brainstorming with some of   the world's richest and most influential people.
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As world governments and private organizations increase their financial pledges for the tsunami disaster in Asia, the United Nations is stressing that billions will be needed in the long-term.
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KEENE, N.H., Feb. 11 -- Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) touted the politics of the possible Sunday during her inaugural visit to New Hampshire as a presidential candidate, a message that found an energetic but not ecstatic reception in town-hall meetings and house parties across the state.
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Former President Bill Clinton returned to Northern Ireland, viewed by many as the scene of one of his main foreign policy successes, to urge rival leaders on Thursday to take the next step toward securing a ...
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DES MOINES, Sept. 17 - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) unveiled her long-awaited proposal for health care coverage here on Monday, describing a plan that would pair government resources with private insurance plans to help insure all Americans.