Wednesday, August 17, 2005

United Nations opinions...

From UN Wire:

Opinion: Pundits play population game while mothers suffer

The world population has not soared as much in recent years as was feared, but while that fact should be celebrated it is instead "being used to undermine support for family-planning programs around the world," Sara Seims, director of the population program at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, writes in this commentary. San Francisco Chronicle (8/15)

Opinion: World Bank's trade pill tastes bitter for Bangladesh This commentary in Bangladesh's The New Nation newspaper lambastes the country's finance minister for having "swallowed" the trade liberalization pill as prescribed by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. This approach has led Bangladesh's trade deficit to soar, the writer argues. The New Nation (Bangladesh) (8/15)
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