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...case. In the Middle East and North Africa, Yemen, Morocco and Iraq are among the worst off. ? Asia and the Pacific have more chronically hungry people than elsewhere, says the FAO, but the "depth of hunger" - a calculation based on what energy they get from their food and the minimum energy needed to maintain body weight - is greatest in sub-Saharan Africa, home to some of the world's poorest countries. There, some 186 million people - more than a third of the population - are considered undernourished. ? In many sub-Saharan countries, according to a report by the World Water Council...
...committee will have a Dec. 31 deadline to report back to incoming President Lawrence H. Summers on all aspects of workers' benefits, including outsourcing and a minimum wage floor like the $10.25 per hour PSLM is demanding...
...things had begun to change at the state level, where overburdened criminal-justice systems handle most drug offenses. In the past four years, states have passed 17 of 19 proposed ballot initiatives that loosened tough drug laws. While Congress shows little interest in repealing stiff federal "mandatory minimum" drug sentences, some 700 drug courts have been created or are being planned by various states to shepherd narcotics abusers through treatment rather than prison. Utah and Oregon curtailed police powers to forfeit the assets of suspected drug users. Nine states have legalized medical marijuana, including Oregon, Maine and Nevada...
...Other Path. His new work argues that most market-oriented reforms have failed to help the poor because clubby oligarchs and red tape have shut them out. In Peru it takes a year or more to legally start a business--and it costs, in government fees, 31 times the minimum monthly wage. To legally own a home in the Philippines, De Soto says, requires a wait of as long as 25 years and 168 often venal bureaucratic steps. As a result, the Third World's poor--two-thirds of the world's population--have little choice but to work outside...
...University to allow one of its organizations to hold an interest-bearing account, administrators mandate a minimum investment...