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Working with the private sector to eliminate poverty - 09-02-2006
Selling fruit on a street corner; working on a farm; cleaning a high-rise office; selling basic medicines; operating a factory machine; repairing bicycles… The poorest people in our world are living in, and working in and sustaining a bustling, often unnot...
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United Nations - Global Programme against Corruption - 07-02-2006
The Global Programme against Corruption (GPAC) was first launched in 1999 by the United Nations Centre for International Crime Prevention (later merged into the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime). Since 1999 to April 2004, GPAC was active mainly in ...
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Bottled Water: Pouring Resources Down the Drain - 06-02-2006
A sharp increase in worldwide consumption of bottled water over the past seven years is indicative of an alarming trend to many environmentalists, says the Earth Policy Institute.
The global consumption of bottled water reached 154 billio...
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