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GEF PROJECTS



BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE GLOBAL Environment Facility has approved US$233.4 million in grants for 25 projects fostering biodiversity, preventing climate change, managing international water supplies and fighting land degradation, organic pollution and ozone depletion. http://www.thegef.org/Outreach/Media/Press_Releases/Umbrella_news_release__5-11-04_ENG.pdf…

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TRADE DEVELOPMENT



BY KEITH NUTHALL
TRADE liberalisation is not enriching the world’s poor, claims a new UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) report, with increased exports not necessarily boosted local consumption. Bangladesh, Guinea and Uganda were the only least developed countries where this happened in the 1990s.…

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MALARIA DRUG



BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Health Organisation, GlaxoSmithKline and the Medicines for Malaria Venture are developing a new anti-malaria drug to fight resistance to existing drugs. It will combine chlorproguanil, dapsone and artesunate.…

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FDI - CHINA



BY KEITH NUTHALL
CHINA has become the first developing country to be among the top five sources of direct foreign investment, along with the USA, Germany, Britain and France, says a new UN report.…

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WORLD BANK FRAUD



BY KEITH NUTHALL
FRAUDSTERS are posing as World Bank representatives in advanced fee frauds, the institution has warned. They have written to creditors of west African governments, claiming they are authorised to pay these debts, for up front administrative fees, using World Bank-style letterheads.…

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IMF SAFETY NET



BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Monetary Fund has approved a new Trade Integration Mechanism (TIM) financial facility easing balance of payments shortfalls resulting from multilateral trade liberalisation, especially the end of textile trade quotas this December. Some developing countries fear this World Trade Organisation measure will cause damage via “greater competition”.…

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SAFFRON - AFGHANISTAN



BY KEITH NUTHALL
BRITISH government advisors are planning to persuade Afghan farmers to grow saffron instead of opium poppies as they can earn US$170 per kilo of saffron crocus stigma. Although half the revenue of poppy gum, it outstrips wheat’s US$2 per 10 pounds.…

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UNESCO PROGRAMME



BY KEITH NUTHALL
UNITED Nations cultural organisation UNESCO’s international programme for the development of communication has granted more than US$1.5 million to 62 (print and electronic) media projects in developing and transition countries.…

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SOMALIA - POLIO



BY KEITH NUTHALL
HAVING no central government has proved no hindrance to Somalia making advances in public health, said United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). Somali health organisations reported its last case in 2002 and are organising a major immunisation campaign.…

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IFC - WORLD BANK



BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Finance Corporation, of the World Bank, is lending US$40 million to Banco Internacional del Peru – Interbank, to help expand Peru’s nascent housing finance market, supporting mortgage lending and securitisation.…

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