Population in the News

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Population News Saturday December 9th 2006

U.S. has most prisoners in world due to tough laws
(Reuters via Yahoo! News: Sat, 09 Dec) Tough sentencing laws, record numbers of drug offenders and high crime rates have contributed to the United States having the largest prison population and the highest rate of incarceration in the world, according to criminal justice experts.

Chinese to climb ranks of world’s wealthy
(Financial Times: Fri, 08 Dec) China's population is so large and its economy growing so quickly that the Chinese are set to take over second place in the league table of the world's wealthy people in the next decade.

Poverty remains major challenge for Indonesia: World Bank
(AFP via Yahoo! News: Thu, 07 Dec) Nearly 50 percent of Indonesia's population still lives on less than two dollars a day despite progress in recovering from the economic crisis of 1998 which plunged millions of people back into poverty, the World Bank said.

Ebola virus threatens to wipe out gorilla population
(Independent: Fri, 08 Dec) The Ebola virus has killed more than 5,000 western lowland gorillas in the past four years according to scientists who warn that the world's largest ape is suffering a dramatic population decline that could soon lead to its total extinction.

AVRDC – The World Vegetable Center and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation are combining forces to give Africa’s
(SeedQuest: Sat, 09 Dec) Agriculture, Africa's economic key sector will receive a major boost through joint efforts between AVRDC "" The World Vegetable Center and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation . The Foundation will support the World Vegetable Center's program to produce adapted vegetable varieties and establish vegetable seed sectors in sub-Saharan Africa.

Sudan accuses world powers of supporting Darfur rebels
(AFP via Yahoo! News: Fri, 08 Dec) Sudan's president has accused world powers of turning a blind eye to those rebels in the war-torn western region of Darfur who did not sign a peace deal earlier this year.

40% of world's wealth owned by 1% of population
(CBC: Tue, 05 Dec) The richest one per cent of the world's population owns 40 per cent of the total household wealth, while the bottom half makes due with barely one per cent, according to a report released Tuesday.

WORLD BANK LAUNCHES NEW PARTNERSHIP STRAGEY WITH AZERBAIJAN
(AzerTag: Sat, 09 Dec) The World Bank Group Board of Executive Directors endorsed a new 4-year Country Partnership Strategy (CPS) for Azerbaijan on December 7. The new partnership strategy covers a four year period from 2007 to 2010, and envisages a lending program of US$1.26 billion, both in International Development Association and European Bank for Reconstruction and Development financing, as well as an active

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