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By Claire Ngozo
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G20
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WORLD
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WORLD
"Poor Countries Should Have a Seat at G20 Table"
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SPECIAL OP-ED
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By Franco Frattini*
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AFRICA
Uneven Progress on Development Goals
Evelyn Kiapi interviews SYLVIA MWICHULI, deputy director of the U.N. Millennium Campaign Africa
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G20
Leaders Agree on Reforms, Poor Still "Out in the Cold"
By Eli Clifton
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G20
Rising Above the G8
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G20
Moving Up BRIC by BRIC
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G20
More May Be Needed, to Do More
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POLITICS
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HEALTH-AFRICA
Maintain Funding for HIV/AIDS Prevention
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Before anyone knew it, G8 summits have become more politically pointed than the United Nations meetings. As the club of the richest and most powerful, they have naturally become a target -- increasingly protected -- of those fighting globalisation as practised by the mighty. But G8 has become also the G8-plus-five, with China, India, South Africa, Brazil and Mexico now regular and increasingly influential guests from the developing world. Before anyone knew it also, the protests against the eight of the G8 have worked; the agenda is not exclusively rich any more. Development, Africa, economic rights, human rights have all expanded across the conference tables.

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