Maldives
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30 Jun 2011
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30 Jun 2011
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29 Jun 2011
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http://beta.adb.org...
MANILA, PHILIPPINES - Efforts by the Maldives to tackle the effects of climate change are highly encouraging, but the country must continue with reforms to address its fiscal deficit, and promote inclusive and regionally-balanced growth, Asian Development Bank (ADB) President Haruhiko Kuroda said today.
An investment plan by the Government to make the Maldives the first carbon neutral country in the world within a decade is commendable, given the island nation's extreme vulnerability to...
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24 Jun 2011
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http://www.bbc.co....
3 December 2010
Poor countries as well as rich should look to cut carbon emissions, says Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed.
Continuing to equate the need to develop with the right to emit carbon dioxide is, he says, "quite silly".
Mr Nasheed was speaking to BBC News at the launch of a report on vulnerability to climate impacts, which the authors say shows no nation will be untouched.
He said The Maldives has not received any of the "fast-start" finance pledged by...
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24 Jun 2011
By MATTHEW SALTMARSH
Published: June 11, 2010
PARIS — The government of the Maldives wants its money back — $400 million to be precise.
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, the former president of Maldives, and his associates are believed to have looted some $400 million from the country’s government.
That is the amount that it estimates was looted by its former president, Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, and his associates. Mr. Gayoom dominated politics in the Maldives, a tiny Indian Ocean nation...
