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Child mortality down by 30 percent from 1990 levels
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Tuesday, May 25, 2010 |
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Child mortality rates have declined by 30 percent in the last twenty years. The rate of decline is above the MDG target rate of 4.4% per year. The rate of decline was low in Oceania and souther sub-Saharan Africa. For India, child mortality has come down thirty two percentage, reports Sify News. |
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Privatizing ABC Stores: To Your Health!
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Sunday, May 23, 2010 |
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If it's true that privatizing alcohol-distribution operations will cause greater health and social problems, then states shouldn't be blinded by their desperation for revenue to go this route. If these worries are baseless, however, then privatization is a win-win: State governments get more revenue and consumers get more convenient and less-costly access to the alcoholic beverages of their choice,writes Donald Boudreaux and Julia Williams in Richmond Times Dispatch.
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