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21. Autism appears in early childhood. Autistic children experience delay in the development of social and communication skills. This social and language problems usually appear around 3 years of age. The disorder is found more often in boys than girls, but girls often have more severe effects.
22.The main goal of the World Bank is to fight poverty. But, for almost ten years, the World Bank also has investigated financial crimes by government and bank officials. In nineteen ninety-six, former World Bank President Mr. James warned of the need to deal with the “cancer of corruption.”
24. The UN has released its 2005 human development report. The report showed that 18 countries have moved down the list in terms of the conditions for their people. 12 are in central and southern Africa. The others are former Soviet Republics.
25. But the UN report said many other nations have made progress. It said people in developing countries are generally healthier, wealthier, and better educated than they were 15 years ago and they are also more likely to live in a democratic system.
26. The report said 130 million people escaped extreme poverty during the 1990s and more than 1 thousand million gained access to clean water. But the study said 2 and a half thousand million people still live on less than 2 dollars a day and around half as many still do not have safe water.
27. The new human development report warns that the goals are at risk. It said that without more money for development, there will be millions of deaths that could have been prevented and it says more than 800 million people will still be living in extreme poverty. The number is almost 400 million higher than the target for 2015.
28. Finance Ministry of 184 countries has accepted a plan to cancel the debts of some of the world poorest nations. The plan forgives 100% of debts, added to the world bank international monetary fund and African development.
29. Leaders of the Industrial Nations in the group of 8 agreed on a plan which they made in July in Scotland. The UN is joyed in the G8 by Britain, Canada, French, Germany, Japan, an Russia. The leaders agreed to cancel about 40.000 million USD in debt owned by 18 nations.
30. Food prices are rising in many countries. Economic policy makers warned that the effect of rising food prices could push millions of people into poverty. 8 organizations are concerned that they will not be able to feed the poorest people.