Investments . Technology . Prosperity
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| GLOBAL THREAT - Alarm Over Population Boom |
| Some 149 human beings born every minute spell doom for mother earth
THE world marked the UN-designated World Population Day on July 11 on the threshold of an increasing spectre of humans outstripping resources by the next generation.The population of the world grows at a staggering 6.461million per month! That is 215, 382 people per day, 8,974 people per hour or 149 people per minute!
Put another way, by the time you read this article, in say 10 minutes, some 1,490 women will have given birth.
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| FOOD MATTERS - So Many Hungers-Globally |
| In the last one year, the number of the hungry and undernourished has risen by an astronomical 100 million globally, creating a dire need to arrest the situation- pronto!
According to the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) both of the United Nations, estimates indicate that for the first time since 1970, more than 1 billion people– one sixth of all of humanity – are hungry and undernourished worldwide.
The two organisations contend that even before the food and economic crisis, hunger was on the upswing. “The World Food Summit target of reducing the number of undernourished people by half to no more than 420 million by 2015 will not be reached if the trends that prevailed before those crises continue,” says a report released last year.
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| CAPITAL CENTRE - Bretton Woods Gives Africa the Thumbs up |
| DEA Correspondent JOHN MULAA reports from Washington DC that senior African managers at the World Bank and IMF are unusually upbeat about Africa’s economic prospects and explains why they should be
The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund are gung-ho, almost gaga, about Africa’s economic prospects.
In the past half year, they have issued a steady stream of positive assessments about the continent’s future, a sharp departure from a time when the two institutions and other development partners were forefront purveyors of what was commonly known as Afro-pessimism.
Leading the good news brigade is a band of senior African managers at the two institutions, particularly at the World Bank. Managing Director Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala was in full throttle optimistic mode when she gave an address at the Harvard Kennedy School mid May this year.
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| BRIC'S ROLL-OUT - Brazil Embraces Africa In Radical Policy Shift |
| The six-nation African tour by out-going Brazilian President Lula Da Silva is widely viewed as a shift to deepening monetary, technical and commercial ties with the world’s emerging economic powerhouses popularly known as BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India and China).
These have recently emerged as key players in Africa’s trade and investment portfolio. The Brazilian leader, recently named the world’s most influential leader by Time magazine, because of his efforts in raising his country’s profile on the world stage, has travelled to 25 different African countries since he became president - a move aimed at improving relations with the cradle of mankind and a focal point of his foreign policy.
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