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 | | KAMPALA, 21 May 2004 (IRIN) - The UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) said on Friday that poverty levels on the continent had increased by 43 percent over the last 10 years, with women making up to 80 percent of the people living on less than a dollar a day. |
 | | Josephine Ouedraogo, director of the ECA's African Centre for Gender and Development, told a news conference at a meeting of economic experts and academicians in the Ugandan capital, Kampala, that the situation was being compounded by high rates of maternal mortality, which, she said, stood at 940 deaths per 100,000 birth. |
 | | Ouedraogo said that in spite the fact that women constituted half the population in Africa, provided 70 percent of the food and accounted for two thirds of production, they were not taken into consideration in national economic and social development statistical frameworks. |
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