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Poverty News Blog: A new Food Security Risk IndexA new Food Security Risk Index has been released by a British firm that provides risk assessment to businesses looking to invest in other countries. The index ranks all 148 nations to show what danger each country faces in future food shortages or price shocks. The firm Maplecroft says that ...
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Asian Innovation: China, India and KoreaThe rise of China and India will remake the innovation landscape. US and European pre-eminence in science-based innovation can no longer be taken for granted. Nor can the knowledge jobs that have depended upon it. Global supply chains have transformed how we make products. Our savings depend ...
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G20:Leaders Agree on Reforms, Poor Still "Out in the Cold"G20: Leaders Agree on Reforms, Poor Still "Out in the Cold" By Eli Clifton PITTSBURGH, Sep 25 (IPS) - World leaders at the two-day G20 Summit in the U.S. city of Pittsburgh agreed to work cooperatively to recover from the global economic crisis and create structural reforms with long-term ...
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The G20 Summit in Pittsburgh: Should You Care? - The Baseline ScenarioOn Thursday evening and all day Friday, heads of government from countries belonging to the G20 will meet in Pittsburgh. On paper, this looks important – 90 percent of world economic output and 67 percent of world population will be at the table: the G7 (US, Canada, Japan, UK, Germany, France, ...
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How China, A Rising World Power Deals with the Current Crisis and Challenges Facing the WorldHaving the future of humankind in mind, we have to be aware that we are facing several closely interrelated and interlinked major challenges: 1. Sustainable development of the world economy as threatened by the volatility of financial markets, due to the prevailing short-term profit interest of ...
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Creating Effective Teaching and Learning Environments. First results From TALISThe challenges facing education systems and teachers continue to intensify. In modern knowledge-based economies, where the demand for high-level skills will continue to grow substantially, the task in many countries is to transform traditional models of schooling, which have been effective at ...
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Is There More Than One Path To Globalization?Back in the 1990s, it seemed to many that the Anglo-Saxon economic model was superior to all others — and destined to supplant them. Now even The Economist is admitting, reluctantly, that “a new European pecking order has emerged, with statist France on top, corporatist Germany in the middle ...
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The G-8 Is DeadThe L'Aquila summit showed just how irrelevant the G-8 has become, as emerging economies demand more and more of a say at the negotiating table. It was a funeral ceremony: The G-8 is dead, at least as a global leadership forum. It has now been reduced to a mere talking shop for certain heads of ...
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Is a Popular Carbon-Offset Method Just a Lot of Hot Air?: Scientific AmericanA convenient way of cutting industrial gases that warm the planet was supposed to be the United Nation’s clean development mechanism (CDM). As a provision of the Kyoto Protocol, the CDM enables industrial nations to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions in part by purchasing “carbon offsets” ...
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U.N. food agencies see win-win farmland deals | Environment | ReutersRich nations buying farmland in less developed countries to boost own food supplies should also contribute to improving agriculture overseas, heads of two United Nations' food agencies said. Food supply scare after last year's food riots has pushed several countries, such as China, Saudi Arabia ...
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