News stories by IPS Correspondents, page 57

SANTIAGO, Nov 25 (IPS) - Poverty levels fell significantly in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Mexico, Uruguay and Venezuela between 1990 and 1992, according to the Latin American Social Panorama, released Friday by the United Nations.

PARIS, Nov 24 (IPS) - Rwandan and foreign non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have begun to tackle together the immense and urgent need to rebuild practically from scratch the country just emerging from war and to make a successful transition to peace.

PARIS, Nov 24 (IPS) - A meeting of Algerian opposition groups in Rome this week may yet force the French government to reassess its support for the army-backed government in Algiers say analysts here.

VIENNA, Nov 24 (IPS) - The environmental organisation Greenpeace says logging companies are decimating huge tracts of Russian forests with little thought of replacing those trees felled.

KINGSTON, Nov 24 (IPS) - Caribbean countries have started feeling negative effects from the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) which was implemented at the start of the year.

LONDON, Nov 24 (IPS) - A substantial deficit will be recorded in the tin market next year -- backed up by recent dramatic withdrawals from London Metal Exchange (LME) stocks.

LONDON, Nov 24 (IPS) - Plans to transform the historic Italian city of Florence from its present traffic and tourist clogged nightmare into the dream city that grew to world fame in the Renaissance are presently on show in London.

DAR ES SALAAM, Nov 24 (IPS) - THE OUTCOME OF A TAX EVASION PROBE INVOLVING TOP GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS WILL DETERMINE WHETHER WESTERN DONORS LIFT A FREEZE ON DEVELOPMENT AID TO TANZANIA.

KINGSTON, Nov 24 (IPS) - Government's decision to slap an additional 23 percent levy on financial institutions to help pay the public sector wage bill has not gone down well with bankers and some economists here.

WASHINGTON, Nov 24 (IPS) - The administration of President Bill Clinton may soon end the temporary refugee status that tens of thousands of Salvadorans have enjoyed since Congress passed a law in 1990.