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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…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Finance Corporation of the World Bank is making its first investment in the bus sector, investing US$20 million in Mexico’s Inversionistas en Autotransportes Mexicanos S.A. de C.V. (IAMSA), supporting a US$369 million fleet renovation and acquisition programme.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
GOVERNMENTS and multilateral organisations need to work together create more jobs in countries with high unemployment, to stem a growing tide of economic migration, says a new International Labour Office (ILO) report. It says that more than half of the 175 million international migrants registered by the year 2000 are unemployed, with numbers projected to increase.…

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THE INTERNATIONAL Monetary Fund (IMF) will establish this year a Middle East Regional Technical Assistance Centre in Beirut, Lebanon, to provide macroeconomic and financial management training to Afghanistan, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Sudan, Syria, West Bank and Gaza, and Yemen.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) road haulage sector needs to better train its drivers so they can deal with the increasing demands of their work, a comprehensive report from the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions has concluded.…

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THE UNITED States, European Union, and other textile importers have been attacked for delaying restrictive quota abolition under the World Trade Organisation’s Agreement on Textile and Clothing. The International Textiles and Clothing Bureau (ITCB) of exporting countries said “the large bulk of quotas” would disappear on the agreement’s January 1, 2005, final deadline.…

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THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is expected next month to rubber stamp plans to lend two Russian SUAL group companies US$75 million to expand production at a bauxite mine and begin work on developing a related alumina refinery and aluminium smelter.…

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THE INTERNATIONAL Chamber of Commerce (ICC) has called on governments to urgently process compliance certification applications from ports and shipping lines for the International Ship and Port Facility Security Code (ISPS), as its July 1 implementation deadline looms.…

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REPORTS of fresh bird flu outbreaks are still being reported to the Office International des Épizooties (OIE) by the Indonesian and Vietnamese governments. The most recent cases in Indonesia involved 6,610 chickens being killed in Yogyakarta and Lampung provinces; 200 died in Dông Tháp, Vietnam.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) legislation that allows member countries to maintain widely divergent rates of excise duty will not face formal reform proposals from the existing European Commission promoting greater harmonisation. In a note released ahead of yesterday’s EU Council of Ministers for finance (ECOFIN), internal market Commissioner Frits Bolkestein confirmed a report on alcohol excise was under discussion, but would not confirm a release date.…