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ARMENIA IS IN THE 87TH PLACE

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On July 11 Liz Grande, UNO’ Co-ordinator and UNDP Chief, her deputy Amal Medani, program head Narine Mkrtchyan introduced UNO’ 2003 report on Human Development in UNO Office in Armenia. This year it is on poverty reduction problem.

Various specialists, independent experts are the authors of the report. Human development criteria are based upon life duration, education level and per capita income.

Liz Grande stated that Armenia is facing serious problems: about 50 to 51 /24% before/.

Mrs Grande said the data were cited from the official sources, but reliability of them is checked by independent sources. E,g, information about per capita income is obtained through World Bank, education data from UNESCO, data about population though UNO’ Office on Population Issues.