NATO: The Afghan Business Conference in Helmland aims to bring together local Afghan businessmen from throughout Helmland province with international contractors so that Afghans can bid directly for reconstruction projects.
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Could a key millennium development goal (MDG) have already been reached, and nobody noticed? New numbers on global poverty show that the millennium goal of halving hunger between 1990 and 2015 might have been reached in 2008 already. But these figures are so recent that even specialists at the UN Poverty Summit in September 2010 still had to rely on numbers from 2005. The new numbers are not only
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