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...victimized by corruption. Her achievements are increasingly attracting global attention. She has been singled out by the World Bank for her efforts in poverty reduction and recently served on the United Nations Commission on the Private Sector and Development, helping to map out a vision of how even the poorest countries can unleash entrepreneurship and mobilize the private sector to meet their development challenges. --By MARK MALLOCH BROWN, Administrator, United Nations Development Programme
...rich nation can't brazenly economize at the expense of its poorest members, as though society owes them nothing...
...high that more and more jobless will be heading to court - or forcing a government climb-down through protests like that of the performing-arts workers. That would effectively neuter any hope of tackling the deficit. "A rich nation can't brazenly economize at the expense of its poorest members, as though society owes them nothing," warns Charles Hoareau, a Marseilles union official who organized the court case. Perhaps. But the French nation won't stay as rich if it can't figure out how to reduce unemployment and its costs. The French jobless rate of 9.8% is expected...
...faintest idea of who she is. Sonia cannot understand their dialect. And the photographers, trailing far behind, cannot hope to capture this briefest of off-guard moments. But away from the crowds and the press and the party meetings, as Sonia Gandhi stands alone in a field, hugging the poorest of India's poor, it is difficult to tell whose grin is wider...
...still alive, some of the survivors are now breeding, and that gives Britt hope. In a way it's symbolic of what's happening on the island as a whole. There are too many problems for success to come swiftly - if at all. Madagascar is one of the four poorest countries in the world, and poor people tend to value their own survival over that of an environment that has for too long been regarded as an inexhaustible resource. Slash-and-burn farming still continues, as does the hunting of lemurs. "We have yet to overcome some deeply ingrained cultural...