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2008-05-28 International-UN-NGOs

UN Probe Says Procurement at Its $5 Billion Anti-Poverty Agency a Shambles

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Posted by Spot 2008-05-28 15:20|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Sounds like it is run as well as the rest of the UN is.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2008-05-28 15:46|| 2008-05-28 15:46|| Front Page Top

#2 Hundreds of millions of people have been lifted out of poverty in China and India (with India about a decade behind China). The UN has had no role in this.

Plain old capitalist economic reforms are responsible. And the wicked globalisation that the anti-poverty types are so hung up about.

Posted by john frum 2008-05-28 15:51|| 2008-05-28 15:51|| Front Page Top

#3 Man, I'm in the wrong business. I should join the UN so I could make a fortune stealing from the poor. Not even the most moustache-twirling tophat capitalist villians do that.

Posted by gromky 2008-05-28 17:17|| 2008-05-28 17:17|| Front Page Top

#4 The UN is designed as a graft distribution channel. It work likes this ... the US taxpayer gives their money to the UN ... corrupt leaders appoint their cronies to the UN who then distribute that money out to their pals.

Posted by crosspatch 2008-05-28 17:40|| 2008-05-28 17:40|| Front Page Top

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