Friday, December 5, 2008

A Five Point Agenda On Reducing Inequality In The Asian Region Launched



United Nations Development Programme(UNDP) Today(05) Launched A Five Point Agenda on Reducing the Inequality and Distributing the Benefits of the Economic Development among
the People and All Classes in a Country and between the Countries in Asian Region. Experts who prepared this Agenda warned that there should be a Social Strife if not Reducing the Inequality of the Societies in Asia.The Facts in this Agenda are Based on the Findings of Research and Policy Dialoges Carried out by the UNDP And foreign Experts Professor Frances Stuart Of the Oxford University and Sir Richard Jolly in the Countries of Sri Lanka,Nepal,India,Indonesia and Timor-Laste.Speeking at this Occasion held in Hotel Taj Samudra,Colombo The Head Of the UNDP Asia And Pacific Regional Office IN Colombo Mr.Omar Norman says the Recent Mumbai Attacks Shown that Terrorism Is a Threat to the Human Development and their is a Direct Relationship between the Inequality and Conflict.As Inequality In the Society Increases the Poverty in The Urban Areas are in Rise.He also Stressed That Now The People Living with Extreme Poverty in the Asia Pacific Region is Exceeding than the People in the Sub Saharan African Countries.There are Around 900 Million People In Asia and Pacific Region Living with Extreme Poverty Mr.Norman Added.

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