[Excerpt: Amid China's rise to economic prominence, its government now casts itself as global aid donor....Beijing recently committed $1 million for U.N. programs to aid victims of the December 26 Asian tsunami.]
http://64.236.16.116/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/03/31/china.foodaid.ap/index.html No more U.N. food aid for China Thursday, March 31, 2005 Posted: 10:21 PM EST (0321 GMT) SHANGHAI, China (AP) -- The U.N. World Food Program is making its final food donation to China after more than 25 years of providing aid, the organization said Friday. A final delivery of 43,450 tonnes of Canadian wheat worth $7.2 million was due to arrive in the southern port of Shenzhen on April 7, earmarked for poverty alleviation projects in four poor inland provinces, the WFP said in a statement. The phasing-out of aid heralds China's gradual emergence from decades of dire poverty and hunger, although incomes and living conditions in much of the country remain far behind those of the wealthy coastal cities. China claims to have lifted millions of people out of severe poverty over the past two decades, and Chinese leaders this year promised to spend heavily on easing politically volatile poverty in the countryside. Amid China's rise to economic prominence, its government now casts itself as global aid donor. Beijing recently committed $1 million for U.N. programs to aid victims of the December 26 Asian tsunami. The WFP began providing food aid to China in 1979, supporting over 30 million poor Chinese in meeting their immediate food needs and helping build up infrastructure in their communities through programs exchanging food for work and training. The United Nations said in a recent report that large middle-income countries such China, Brazil, Malaysia, Mexico and South Africa can afford to eliminate pockets of extreme poverty themselves. The report said such nations should assist poorer countries with expertize in climbing out of poverty. enditem ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Take a look at donorschoose.org, an excellent charitable web site for anyone who cares about public education! http://us.click.yahoo.com/_OLuKD/8WnJAA/cUmLAA/TySplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
