Aid grants 'fail to deliver jobs'
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Money designed to bring foreign investment to Wales creates a third fewer jobs than forecast, the BBC finds.
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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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Efforts to combat diseases such as malaria, Aids, tuberculosis and polio in the developing world are being thwarted by a critical shortage of four million health care workers, a new report has found.
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Red tape, corruption and a lack of public support for government policies are hampering investment in the poorest countries, a report from the World Bank revealed yesterday.
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WASHINGTON - Finance officials failed to resolve their differences over debt relief for the world's poorest countries and Iraq while expressing concern about the impact high oil prices would have on a strengthening global economy.    The ministers and central bank governors attended weekend steering committee meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank before heading into a session involving all 184 member nations of the two lending organizations on Sunday, the final day of talks...
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The number of workers applying for unemployment aid fell unexpectedly by 15,000 last week, government data on Thursday showed.
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The World Bank and IMF are poorly suited   to lead the flow of aid to Africa, which would be more   effective if it was distributed in line with a nation's needs,   not competing donor interests, a U.N. agency said.
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An ambitious effort to create jobs and pull Egypt's Bedouin out of poverty is falling short.
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Some 150 charities say problems with an online system mean they have missed out on government grants.
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The world&#39;s leading finance officials and ministers appear to be failing to reach agreement on debt relief for the poorest nations.
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Many hospices struggle with debts as funding promised by ministers has failed to materialise, campaigners say.
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India's most ambitious scheme to reduce poverty has disappointing results in its first year, studies suggest.
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The Government is accused of failing to deliver on a pledge to fund a unit reinvestigating Troubles murders.
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BRUSSELS, Jul 16 (IPS) - An excessive number of aid donors is hampering  efforts to make development assistance more effective, a new  study has found.
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Government education policies are failing to remedy the shortage of skilled workers, a business chief is to say.
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Tony Blair is being urged to use all his negotiating powers to end poor countries&#39; debt and double aid. Some 45m children will die needlessly before 2015 and aid budgets are half their 1960 levels, charity Oxfam says in a new report, Paying the Price.
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Business & money: Workers in poor countries exploited, say investors.