Word: malis
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...world: 41% of 5-to-14-year-olds work. Many kids simply help on the family farm or look after younger siblings. But some are bought or taken from their parents and forced to work. Most child slaves come from the poorest countries, such as Benin, Burkina Faso or Mali, where up to 70% of the people live on less than $1 a day. "These people are in areas where there are no options for children, no school, no jobs," says Beth Herzfeld, spokeswoman for Anti-Slavery International, a London-based advocacy group. "They don't have the belief that...
...poorest African nations, where annual per capita health care budgets are less than $10, even cheap generics aren't cheap enough. This month Mali closed a deal to buy drugs from four Western firms at a 90% discount; but the government said it can treat just 600 of the country's 130,000 AIDS patients. What more can be done...
Besides serving in the government, Frazer has consulted extensively on African policy. She consulted with the United Nations Development Program on civil-military relations in Mali...
...there's a catch. Fears that loans forgiven without strings attached will only enrich corrupt governments without helping the poor have led rich countries to impose strict conditions. As a result, the benefits of debt relief have so far been limited to a few desperate countries like Mali, Guyana and Burkina Faso. Many others, including Nigeria and Haiti, may be years away from similar programs...