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U.N. Upholds Human Rights, World Bank Dismisses Them
2015-10-09 23:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: The United Nations has always remained one of the most vociferous and passionate advocates of human rights - exemplified in the creation in 2006 of a 47-member Human Rights Council in Geneva to uphold its mandate. World Bank President Jim Yong Kim. Credit: OECD But, in its own political yard, a member of its extended family, namely the World Bank, is apparently working at cross-purposes. Philip Alston, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights, has lambasted the World...
World Bank puts USD 56 mln into Gabon ICT
2015-10-09 09:42:00| Telecompaper Headlines
(Telecompaper) Gabon and the World Bank have started preparations for a new USD 56 million eGabon project, which will leverage ICT to promote the country's socioeconomic development. A statement from the World Bank said the eGabon project, will be implemented with the Ministry of Health, ANINF (Agence Nationale des Infrastructures Numériques et des Frequences), and CNAMGS (Caisse Nationale d'Assurance Maladie et de Garantie Sociale). The project aims to improve the performance of the National Health Information System (SNIS) by strengthening its human and financial resources and upgrading health facility equipment and infrastructure.
World Bank cuts Asia growth forecast
2015-10-05 06:50:27| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The World Bank cuts growth forecast for the Asia Pacific region, because of the risks posed from a sharp slowdown in China and raising US interest rates.
World Bank: Extreme poverty 'to fall below 10%'
2015-10-04 23:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: The World Bank has said that for the first time less than 10% of the world's population will be living in extreme poverty by the end of 2015. The bank said it was using a new income figure of $1.90 per day to define extreme poverty, up from $1.25. It forecasts the proportion of the world's population in this category to fall from 12.8% in 2012 to 9.6%. However, it said the "growing concentration of global poverty in sub-Saharan Africa is of great concern". Although the share of people in poverty...
World Bank: 'extreme poverty' to fall below 10% world population first time
2015-10-04 21:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The number of people living in extreme poverty is likely to fall for the first time below 10% of the worlds population in 2015, the World Bank said on Sunday as it revised its benchmark for measuring the problem. This is the best story in the world today, said World Bank president Jim Yong Kim. These projections show us that we are the first generation in human history that can end extreme poverty. Extreme poverty has long been defined as living on or below $1.25 a day, but the World Banks...
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