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A new World Bank report claims that proportion of people living in
extreme poverty, less than $1 a day, was almost halved between 1981
and 2001, from 40% to 21% of global population –...
Despite recent ANC claims of job creation, studies have shown that
we have experienced a loss of some 2 million formal sector job
opportunities over the last ten years of ANC rule.
While the economies of China and India are considerably smaller
than that of the US, China is likely to overtake and India to equal
the US economy in size by mid-century, writes Jeffrey D Sachs in...
Nato's operational focus is moving away from western to eastern
Europe and the US must redeploy its forces accordingly, the supreme
commander of allied forces in Europe said yesterday.
Economic development and social benefits are boosted when
governments strengthen people's land rights and dismantle barriers
to land transactions, a World Bank report said yesterday.
Poland's 29-million voters go to the polls tomorrow to decide
whether to join the European Union, in a two-day referendum, which
could determine the success of the bloc's eastern enlargement.
South Africa’s Finance Minister Trevor Manuel has cautioned
his fellow African counterparts to be vigilant against any move by
giant international financial institutions to divide the...
A sluggish global economic outlook, with slower growth in the next
12 to 18 months than previously anticipated, will impede poverty
reduction in developing countries, according to a new World Bank...
The HIV/AIDS epidemic is fuelling a deadly famine in southern
Africa with more than 14 million people at risk of starvation in
Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe,
according...
Date: 02/02/1990 Source: South African government Title: SA: De Klerk: Address by the President of South Africa, at the Opening of the Second Session of the Ninth Parliament, Cape...