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...billion Estimated fortune of entrepreneur Zhang Yin, the first woman to top the annual Hurun Report list of China's richest people 40% Proportion of China's wealth held by the richest 10% of its population. The poorest 10% have just 2% of its wealth...
...tremor out of the far north of the People's Democratic Republic of Korea was unremarkable. It registered a magnitude 4.2, a light earthquake. Its significance had to be declared by its perpetrator, the unpredictable regime of Kim Jong Il. North Korea, one of the poorest and most hermetic nations on earth, was claiming a successful underground nuclear bomb test and entry into the once exclusive club of nuclear powers as member No. 9. "More fizzle than pop," said a U.S. intelligence source dismissively, though he conceded the blast was likely to have been nuclear. A sniffer plane would later...
...organize the people into a political force - that we were a communist threat. We had people accusing us of being guilty of two opposite things! But in time people have gradually accepted the good that Grameen has done, and the social empowerment it has created with millions of the poorest Bangladeshis is undeniable...
...people of the Third World will receive large amounts of aid, and that is a good thing. But we also have to remember that people like Madonna may not have the purest motivations. That being said, if a few stars can make more money, and some of the poorest people can have better lives as well, what’s wrong with that? We might even be better off if stars start vying for attention through good deeds instead of the normal route of scandal.Through the “Bono effect,” as strange as it might seem...
...company has adopted a "south first" strategy of pricing to provide steep discounts on Rotarix for poorer countries if they have a system for vaccinating all young children. Diarrheal disease experts say Glaxo is selling its vaccine for as little as $7 a dose in Brazil. "For the poorest developing countries that's still unaffordable, but with greater use and greater manufacturing, that price will go down," says Roger I. Glass, director of the U.S. National Institutes of Health's Fogarty International Center and former chief of the viral gastroenteritis unit at the cdc in Atlanta, Georgia. One dollar...