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National Quotes by Kofi Annan
- Fierce national competition over water resources has prompted fears that water issues contain the seeds of violent conflict.
- For too long the development debate has ignored the fact that poverty tends to be characterized not only by material insufficiency but also by denial…
- Today, no walls can separate humanitarian or human rights crises in one part of the world from national security crises in another. What begins with…
- National markets are held together by shared values and confidence in certain minimum standards. But in the new global market, people do not yet have…
- Unfortunately, very few governments think about youth unemployment when they are drawing up their national plans.
- Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. It is a tool for daily life in modern society. It is a bulwark against poverty, and…
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