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Africa joining the electric car craze, with Optimal Energy’s Joule » VentureBeatThe entire world hopes to start driving electric cars soon, and Africa, despite its reputation for poor economies, is no exception. Luckily, a South African company called Optimal Energy is working to release a vehicle in 2010.And unlike the many attempts to make electric cars as small and cheap ...
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Jimmy Carter and George W. Bush’s Future - Nicholas D. Kristof Blog - NYTimes.comJimmy Carter is by far the best ex-president the United States has ever had, and he underscored that again this morning by announcing that Guinea Worm cases have reached an all-time low. For those of you who have never heard of it, Guinea Worm is one of the worst parasites you can get. The worms ...
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Bill Gates presses Obama on stimulus package, foreign aid - CNN.comMicrosoft founder Bill Gates told CNN on Wednesday that he hopes President-elect Barack Obama and Congress immediately craft a wide-ranging stimulus package, to help jump-start the nation's sputtering economy, and double the United States' commitment to foreign aid. "Clearly we need a stimulus ...
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Leading through uncertainty - The McKinsey QuarterlyThe range of possible futures confronting business is great. Companies that nurture flexibility, awareness, and resiliency are more likely to survive the crisis, and even to prosper. The future of capitalism is here, and it’s not what any of us expected. With breathtaking speed, in the autumn ...
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What Are the Impacts of the Current Financial Crisis On the Brazilian Economy? - Latin America EconoMonitorIn the last months, the sub-prime crisis was aggravated, culminating with severe financial difficulties of some important North-American and European banks and companies. While there is still some discussion on how deep will the US and European economies be affected, questions on how emerging ...
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My opinion Nicholas D. Kristof : Pakistani women thankful for US | www.azstarnet.com ®You don't know it, but some of you are keeping women like Sajida Bibi alive here in this remote Pakistani village. And that is a far grander reason to celebrate Thanksgiving than even the plumpest turkey. Sajida is a 29-year-old, college-educated woman from a Christian family here (and a ...
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Bailouts Dwarf Spending on Climate and Poverty Crises | Environment | AlterNetThe financial crisis is only one of multiple crises that will affect every country, rich and poor alike.There's also the global poverty crisis. Tens of millions of people across the developing world are expected to fall into extreme poverty and joblessness as a result of an economic mess ...
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China & US - Why is the balance of payments constraint such a mystery?Fareed Zakaria usually writes very interesting pieces on international policy issues, but it seems to me that there is so much mystery about how the global balance of payments works that he, like so many others, makes simplifying assumptions that don’t take the balance into account, and for that ...
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Zakaria: Why America and China Must Hang Together - NewsweekWe need China to see that its interests are aligned with America's. If not, things could get very, very ugly. For weeks the world has eagerly awaited word from the Obama transition team about the people who will head up the next American administration—the new secretaries of state and Treasury, ...
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How to Generate a New Wave of Prosperity. The formula of mixed government and private investments to reform the world - Europe EconoMonitorCan we learn from the “Italian Miracle” Formula? In the 1960s, while the Italian economy was booming, such to talk of “The Italian Economic Miracle”, IRI - Istituto per la Ricostruzione Industriale S.p.A. - was among its most important factors[1]. The IRI, (Institute of Industrial ...
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