ISTANBUL, (Reuters) – Making juice from their own fruit crops or polishing gemstones from their mines would help the world’s least developed countries diversify their economies and reduce poverty, a senior World Bank official said yesterday.
“Just producing crops is not enough. You need to process the product you produce and create jobs,” World Bank Managing Director Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala said in an interview ahead of a five-day U.N. conference in Istanbul.
The conference aims to work out a support programme for the world’s 48 poorest nations, which have a combined population of
