World Bank Says Improving Climate for Investments Improves Lives ...
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The World Bank says nearly half the world&#39;s population lives on less than $2 a day. In its annual World Development Report, which draws upon surveys of 30,000 firms in more than 50 developing countries, the
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TROMSOE, Norway  - The world marked Environment Day on Tuesday with cheerful events like tree-planting and solar cooking in the heat of Asia, but also gloomier talk in the not-so-frozen north of melting polar caps.
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Economic growth does not always lead to better health or lower child mortality, new research suggests.
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Astana - Washington, September 29 KAZINFORM - Despite facing various &quot;difficulties&quot; India has been able to grow fast and reduce poverty in the financial year 2004, the World Bank has said.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday that drastically reducing air pollution in cities could prevent 120,000 deaths a year from respiratory infections, heart disease and lung cancer.
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The economies of sub-Saharan Africa, home to some of the most extreme and pervasive poverty in the world, will grow at a healthy pace next year, International Monetary Fund economists said yesterday.
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The World Bank, aligned with other global financial institutions dominated by rich nations that promote free trade, is advising poor nations that have already signed agreements to open up for more trade on &quot;all fronts.
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Better financing of public services like water and health care will ease developing world poverty, says Oxfam.
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BRUSSELS, Nov 11 (IPS) - Many developing countries are failing to decrease  the number of deaths in line with the Millennium Development  Goals, says a new World Bank report.
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Afghanistan has made sufficient steps to improve its economy to qualify for debt relief, the World Bank says.
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Developing countries will enjoy their best year of economic growth in 2004, producing a &quot;spectacular&quot; drop in poverty around the world, the World Bank said yesterday.
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Georgia makes more progress than any country in smoothing the way for business, the World Bank says.
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Rich countries should do more to control global warming and help poorer nations cope with the effects of climate change, a coalition of aid and environmental groups said Wednesday.
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Science & environment: The effects of climate change will be felt sooner than scientists realised and the world must learn to live with the effects, experts said yesterday.
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NEW YORK  - A combination of environmental and nutritional programs that target the poor can substantially reduce childhood mortality globally, new research suggests.
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The World Bank on Tuesday chastised rich countries for not giving enough to fund global environmental protection and warned that overall progress in meeting global environmental targets was "alarmingly slow."
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The developing countries will enjoy the strongest economic growth in three decades this year and should continue to enjoy solid expansion in 2005 and 2006, the World Bank predicted on Tuesday.