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FIFA and SA Allay Fears over World Cup Security
[28 Jan 2010]
The president of South Africa (SA) Jacob Zuma and the FIFA's secretary general Jérôme Valcke at separate occasions informed there was no security threat to the forthcoming football (soccer) World Cup
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Tags: FIFA SA South Africa World Cup WEF Germany
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World Oceans Day 2050 would be a Fishless Celebration
[30 May 2010]
According to a recent UN report, the World Oceans Day June 8 designated and celebrated by the UN since last year would be a fishless one in 2050 if the fishing industry failed to restructure itself. T
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Tags: Fish World Oceans Day Fishing
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Jabulani Controversy May Favour Dwindling Pakistani Exports
[02 Jul 2010]
The hullabaloo over Jabulani, the official FIFA World Cup football may help the failing exports of Pakistan if the soccer governing body opted for Pakistan’s hand-stitched footballs over the Chinese t
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Tags: FIFA Soccer World Cup 2010 Jabulani Football
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China's Jan exports rise 38 percent to $150.73
[15 Feb 2011]
China's exports rose by 37.7 percent year-on-year to $150.73 billion in January boosted by busy shipments ahead of the nation's traditional Spring Festival, according to the General Administration of
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Tags: GDP Japanese Cabinet Office World Bank
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Food prices push 44m into poverty: World Bank
[17 Feb 2011]
Rising food prices have pushed about 44 million people into poverty in developing countries since last June, the World Bank warned.
Food costs are continuing to rise to near 2008 levels, when
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Tags: World Bank Food Price Index food inflation anti-poverty
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World Bank chief urges new role in Middle East
[24 Mar 2011]
The World Bank is rethinking its role in the Middle East and North Africa to tackle economic and social problems that sparked political unrest. The poverty-fighting institution needs to find some way
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Tags: Robert Zoellick World Bank conference IMF neo-liberal economic policies
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From Bad to Slightly Worse- No luck for World Economy
[26 Aug 2013]
If the influential Ifo Business Climate Index is to be believed, all that the world economies are doing to elevate their domestic markets in light of the recent economic slump isn’t amounting to much.
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Tags: Slightly Worse No luck for World Economy
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