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Gordon Brown will today urge aid agencies to hold ministers fully to account for progress made in writing off African debt, tackling disease and breaking down trade barriers. Describing the next 12

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Narendra Modi has got the thumbs up from the UNDP. The Human Development Report 2005 has cited Gujarat, along with Tamil Nadu, as one of the states where rural poverty has fallen rapidly. However,