The WHA will meet again this coming May, and smallpox will be on the agenda.

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"The short term outlook for the region is bleak as the full impact of the severe recession in industrialized economies is transmitted to emerging markets, " said Jong-Wha Lee, acting chief economist for the ADB.

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Jong-Wha Lee and Kiseok Hong of the Asian Development Bank project that if China continues its structural reforms, it has the potential to grow at 7 percent in 2011-2020 and 6.23 percent in 2021-2030.

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At the 2006 meeting of the World Health Assembly (WHA), virtually every country agreed, again, that the smallpox should be destroyed, but the U.S. and Russia objected, and no date was set to destroy the remaining stocks.

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From almost 40% a decade ago, it fell to 27% in 2008, according to a recent paper by Soyoung Kim of Seoul National University, as well as Jong-Wha Lee and Cyn-Young Park of the Asian Development Bank.

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This Forum was opened by the United Nations Secretary-General, Mr. Ban Ki-moon, and facilitated by Ms. Michelle Bachelet, Executive Director of UN Women, and included the participation of a range of senior leaders of UN agencies -- namely Ms. Rebeca Grynspan, UNDP Associate Administrator, Ms. Anne-Birgette Albrectsen, Deputy Executive Director, UNFPA, Ms. Geeta Rao Gupta, Deputy Executive Director, UNICEF, Ms Kyung-wha Kang, Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights, OHCHR.

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