Topic: United Nations
OSLO (Reuters) - Industrialized nations' greenhouse gas emissions fell by 2.2 percent in 2008, the steepest decline since the break-up of the Soviet Union as economies slowed, a Reuters compilation showed Wednesday. Emissions are likely to have fallen more sharply in 2009 ...
The world economy will bounce back in 2010 with growth of 2.4 percent but could slump back into recession if state stimulus spending is wound up too early, the United Nations said Wednesday. The UN's preliminary report on the "World Economic Situation ...
UN forecasts world economy will bounce back in 2010 with global growth of 2.4 percentThe United Nations forecast Wednesday that the world economy will bounce back in 2010 with a global growth rate of 2.4 percent, but it warned that the recovery ...
* Largest UN aid appeal ever launched * West asked not to cut aid because of crisis * Sum is less than 1 pct of rich-country financial bailouts By Robert Evans GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations called on richer governments on ...
KAMPALA (Reuters) - World food prices have stabilized but will not return to levels seen before 2008 when commodity prices skyrocketed pushing up inflation in many emerging markets, the U.N. food agency said on Friday. While those prices have since eased on ...
GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations on Tuesday revealed a record $4.8 billion funding gap for its 2009 aid projects as a result of strained foreign assistance, widespread economic trouble and a ten-fold increase in needs in Pakistan. "This recession is driving ...
UN forecasts global economy will shrink by 2.6 percent in 2009The United Nations predicted Wednesday that the global economy will shrink 2.6 percent this year as a result of the world financial crisis — a considerably deeper downturn than the 0.5 percent ...
World Bank: Financial meltdown is impeding efforts to attain UN goals to ease povertyThe global economic crisis has stymied the international community's effort to halve extreme poverty by 2015 and meet other goals to reduce hunger, fight disease and get young children ...
UN chief Ban Ki-moon warned Thursday that failing to act to halt the global economic crisis could lead to widespread social unrest and failed states, ahead of the G20 crisis summit here. "What began as a financial crisis has become a global ...
Asia and the Pacific face a "marked risk" of social unrest as the global financial crisis bites, but the region continues to lead international prospects for recovery, a UN survey said Thursday. The annual survey said that the region faces multiple layers ...
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