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...added that HSPH does not have the robust endowment that the Faculty of Arts and Sciences or some of the larger schools have...
...Asian country is the need to address poverty so pressing as in India. Despite seeing robust economic growth since reforms were first introduced in the early 1990s (when the pictures for this story were taken), some 250 million Indians still live in grinding poverty, making it the country with the largest population of poor people in the world. The World Bank estimates that in 2001, of the 1.1 billion people living on less than a dollar a day?the conventional definition of the desperately poor?428 million were in India and neighboring South Asian nations. Within a short drive...
...Chidambaram's budget is one of the more salient proofs that the new government has remembered its origins. The budget, which increases spending on a range of antipoverty measures, is easily the most ambitious effort to channel India's robust economic growth into solving its most enduring problem. "Given the resilience of the Indian economy," the Finance Minister said in his speech to India's Parliament, "it is possible to ... launch a direct assault on poverty and unemployment." He then earmarked $5.7 billion for a series of programs aimed at bolstering education, infrastructure, housing, nutrition and health care, especially...
...disappeared in December. "We are proactively sending letters to impacted cardholders," said Alexandra Trower, spokesperson for Charlotte-based Bank of America. She said that after intensive account-monitoring, the tapes are at this point believed to be lost, not stolen. "We, with federal law authorities, have done a very robust, thorough investigation on this and neither we nor they would make the statement lightly that we believe those tapes to be lost," she said. "We have no evidence that the tapes have been accessed in any way. We have witnessed no unusual activity. And we've been monitoring the situation...
...year 2004 was one for the record books: the world economy grew at its fastest rate in almost three decades. And most observers predict that growth in 2005 will continue to be relatively robust. The developed world, to paraphrase British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's 1957 proclamation to his countrymen, has rarely had it so good. Why, then, are so many economists so nervous? When TIME's annual Board of Economists round table met during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, late last month, the discussion focused less on what is going right in the global economy than...