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THE STATESMAN’S YEARBOOK 2010 ‘Nothing is so fatal to the progress of the human mind as to suppose our views of science are ultimate; that there are no mysteries in nature; that our triumphs are complete; and that there are no new worlds to conquer.’ Humphry Davy (1810) Editors Frederick Martin 1864–1883 Sir John Scott-Keltie 1883–1926 Mortimer Epstein 1927–1946 S. H. Steinberg 1946–1969 John Paxton 1969–1990 Brian Hunter 1990–1997 Barry Turner 1997–0000 Credits Publisher Hazel Woodbridge (London) Airie Stuart (New York) Editor Barry Turner Editorial Assistant Jill Fenner Senior Research Editor Nicholas Heath-Brown Research Judith Frazer Chris Wellbelove Ben Eastham Daniel Smith Richard German Saif Ullah Liane Jones Justine Foong James Wilson Robert McGowan Matthew Lane Tobias Bracey Martha Nyman Sharita Oomeer Index Richard German Print Production Phillipa Davidson-Blake Michael Card Design Jim Weaver Online Production Semantico Technical Support Jiss Jacob Marketing Charley Holyhead (London) Denise De La Rosa (New York) email: [email protected] THE STATESMAN’S YEARBOOK THE POLITICS, CULTURES AND ECONOMIES OF THE WORLD 2010 Edited by BARRY TURNER © Macmillan Publishers Ltd 2009 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2009 978-0-230-20602-1 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No portion of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, Saffron House, 6-10 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS. Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. Published annually since 1864 This edition published 2009 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN Palgrave Macmillan in the UK is an imprint of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS Palgrave Macmillan in the US is a division of St Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N. Y. 10010 Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN 978-1-349-58634-9 ISBN 978-1-349-58632-5 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-349-58632-5 ISSN 0081-4601 This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. Logging, pulping and manufacturing processes are expected to conform to the environmental regulations of the country of origin. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 09 PREFACE Along with everything readers have come to expect, The Statesman’s Yearbook continues to be regarded as the including new and revised economic and political overviews, desktop reference work of choice by librarians, researchers, new world leader profiles and an array of social statistics, journalists, business people and general readers, and in this year’s edition includes a chronology of the global credit an ever-changing world it’s reassuring to know that the crunch. online edition is regularly updated throughout the year and Now in its 146th edition, it will surprise many to know that available to all purchasers of the print edition. Just go to our current Editor, Barry Turner, is still only the 7th to hold the www.statesmansyearbook.com and register the unique code title. It is perhaps more surprising to learn that throughout its printed on the sticker on the front of this book. The online history, The Statesman’s Yearbook has consistently published edition contains even more information than the printed every year, including through two world wars. Institutions book including a detailed week-by-week chronology of world that upgrade to a site-wide license for the online edition can, events since the year 2000, fact sheets, city profiles and for the first time, have online access to the complete 145- detailed biographical profiles of post-1945 world leaders. year archive: a wonderful collection of interesting and useful If you have any comments or suggestions to help improve facts and figures through generations. Simply seeing how the The Statesman’s Yearbook in print or online we’d love to hear book’s jacket alone has changed over the decades, gives a sense from you; please email us at [email protected] or of how the world, and of course the book itself, have altered. write to The Statesman’s Yearbook team, Palgrave Macmillan, If you would like to offer unlimited access to multiple users Houndmills, Basingstoke RG21 6XS, UK. to The Statesman’s Yearbook website and now the archive too, Hazel Woodbridge please email [email protected]. Publisher, The Statesman’s Yearbook v CONTENTS TIME ZONES MAP Front Endpaper PREFACE v KEY WORLD FACTS xv WORLD POPULATION xvi WEEK-BY-WEEK CHRONOLOGY xix CREDIT CRUNCH CHRONOLOGY xxvii ADDENDA xxxiv The Way It Was, and Is by Barry Turner xxxv Part I: International Organizations Page UNITED NATIONS (UN) ...................................................................... 3 General Assembly ........................................................................... 3 Security Council ............................................................................ 4 Economic and Social Council ................................................................. 5 Trusteeship Council.......................................................................... 5 International Court of Justice ................................................................. 5 Secretariat .................................................................................. 6 Member States . 7 UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS ............................................. 8 NOBEL PRIZES ............................................................................... 10 UNITED NATIONS SYSTEM ................................................................... 10 Operational Programmes and Funds ........................................................... 10 Research and Training Institutes ............................................................... 12 Other UN Entities ........................................................................... 13 Information ................................................................................. 13 SPECIALIZED AGENCIES OF THE UN ......................................................... 13 Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) . 14 International Bank for Reconstruction and Development — The World Bank (IBRD) ................ 14 International Development Association (IDA)................................................... 15 International Finance Corporation (IFC) ....................................................... 15 Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) .............................................. 16 International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) ............................... 16 International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) ............................................... 16 International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)......................................... 16 International Labour Organization (ILO) ....................................................... 17 International Maritime Organization (IMO) . 17 International Monetary Fund (IMF)............................................................ 18 International Telecommunication Union (ITU) .................................................. 19 United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) ....................... 20 UN Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) ............................................. 20 Universal Postal Union (UPU) ................................................................ 21 World Health Organization (WHO) ........................................................... 21 World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) ............................................... 23 World Meteorological Organization (WMO) .................................................... 24 World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) ....................................................... 24 OTHER ORGANS RELATED TO THE UN ...................................................... 24 International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) .................................................... 24 World Trade Organization (WTO) . 25 Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) .... 25 Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) .................................. 26 Europe EUROPEAN UNION (EU) . 26 EU INSTITUTIONS . 30 European Commission ....................................................................... 30 Council of the European Union (Council of Ministers)........................................... 31 European Council ........................................................................... 32 European Parliament ......................................................................... 32 vii viii contents Court of Justice of the European Communities .................................................. 32 European Court of Auditors..................................................................
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