MALABO, Equatorial Guinea, June 18 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Republic of Equatorial Guinea (Republica de Guinea Ecuatorial, along with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), is working to strengthen and equip health facilities throughout the country to boost access to reproductive health services. The rebuilding process includes the construction and renovation of health centers and maternity units as well as proper training for medical students. As part of our partnerships with the international community, we are sending our medical students to countries like Mali to study obstetrics, and to other countries, like Germany, Spain and Cuba to receive advanced medical training," Francisco-Pascual Obama Asue, Equatorial Guinea's Minister of Health and Social Welfare said in an int...
BANGKOK, Dec. 23 /U.S. Newswire/ -- A year after the Indian Ocean tsunami, work is ongoing to restore reproductive health services and address psychosocial needs in affected communities with support from UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund. As part of the United Nations coordinated inter-agency response, UNFPA country offices in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Maldives and Thailand are helping to rebuild and re-equip damaged health facilities, while continuing to provide training and supplies so that local governments and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) can offer services at temporary sites and mobile clinics. A key priority is maternal health care.
India adopted the structural adjustment programs (SAP), required by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in 1991. The SAP has been questioned since its inception in the early 1980's, at the pinnacle of third-world debt. Criticisms towards SAP range from the questionability of a country's sovereignty (a by-product of IMF's intervention in the policy-making processes) to the implementation and eventual outcome of its policies. Indeed, several authors argue that these programs have contributed to the deterioration of the social conditions of third world countries rather than improving them. This paper will empirically analyze the effects of SAP in female labor participations in India. The objective is to evaluate the consequences of SAP in India's most economically depressed population, a...
The U.S. and China have the world's two largest economies. While the U.S. has been a global economic titan for several decades, China's emergence as an economic powerhouse is a relatively recent phenomenon. China's economic success is particularly surprising considering its disastrous economic collapse from 1966 to 1976 (due to Chinese leader Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution), huge population (more than four times the U.S. population) and speed of economic development. The Chinese economy has grown rapidly since the country started moving from a centrally planned system to a more open, market- oriented system in 1978. In 2010, the real GDP growth rates for China and the U.S. were 10.3 percent and 2.7 percent, respectively. According to the International Monetary Fund forecasts...
MUMBAI, India and NEW DELHI, Nov. 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- PATH, Abbott (NYSE: ABT) and the Abbott Fund today announced a partnership to address malnutrition by advancing the rice fortification market in India. Currently, 200 million people suffer from hunger and malnutrition in India, more than any other country in the world. Rice is the staple food for 65 percent of the population, providing a significant opportunity to address malnutrition through rice fortification. The partnership will seek to initially benefit 500,000 people through India's public-sector food distribution programs, with the longer-term goal of expanding the broader market for fortified rice. To advance the partnership, the Abbott Fund has provided a three- year, $1.5 million grant for refining and scaling up the pr...
If you asked the average American what he thinks when you say the word "empire," he'd probably say something about exploitation, oppression and the heavy hand of intrusive government - a leviathan- like state we're steering toward yet desperately need to avoid. But in terms of the largest empire the world has ever seen - the British Empire, the empire that gave birth to the United States and gave America its ideas of liberty and limited government - he'd be dead wrong. Compared to today's modern welfare state, the British-empire (that is, Britain and the quarter of the globe it governed in the 1920s) operated on a budget the size of the projected fiscal revenue for Best Buy stores in 2012 (in inflation-adjusted dollars). The British Sudanese civil service, which governed a country of 9 ...
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ETTRICK - With Virginia's Hispanic population increasing, many Latinos strive for higher learning. The annual Virginia Hispanic Youth Institute, which will be held from Wednesday through Saturday at Virginia State University, is designed to get young Hispanic- Americans ready for college. The program is one of eight held across the country," said Monica Raugitinane with the Hispanic College Fund, which hosts the event.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's corporate pension funds, hobbled by a sluggish domestic stock market, are raising their allocations to hedge funds as they scramble to boost returns for the country's ageing population. The move is part of a broader trend in Asia where institutions are looking to raise exposure to hedge funds in search for absolute positive returns and as confidence in the asset class improves, lifting prospects for the $2 trillion global hedge fund industry.
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