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July 24th

From the Archives

The World Says No to the WTO

Posted on July 25, 2003
Previously filed under: General Globalization
Worldwide day of action against corporate globalization and war - kicking off a fall campaign of action for peace and justice.
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July 23rd

From the Archives

Focus on Africa - Can Globalization Deliver Stability?

Posted on July 24, 2003
Previously filed under: Africa, General Globalization
President George W. Bush visited six West African nations in Africa to call attention to issues ranging from disease control to military intervention in Liberia.
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Keywords: Africa, globalization, stability, development

July 20th

From the Archives

Conservation and Debt Relief

Posted on July 21, 2003
Previously filed under: North America, Environment
The United States and the Nature Conservancy, sign Tropical Forest Conservation Act Program with the Republic of Panama.
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The Poverty Impacts of Female Employment

Posted on July 21, 2003
Previously filed under: Asia, General Globalization
Do poor women gain from globalisation - a comparative study of women workers in the ‘traded’ and ‘non-traded’ sectors in Bangladesh and Vietnam sought to answer this question.
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July 13th

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Mobilizing Businesses against AIDS

Posted on July 14, 2003
Previously filed under: Health
A look at the role businesses can play in the fight against AIDS.
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Keywords: HIV/AIDS, economy, emergency plan for aids relief

From the Archives

In Need of a Global Health Insurance Plan

Posted on July 14, 2003
Previously filed under: Health
Medecins sans frontieres co-founder, Bernard Kouchner, says that a global health plan might be able to halt the spread of diseases that often start in developing countries.
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Keywords: SARS, poverty, global health insurance, HIV/AIDS

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On the Other Side of Despair…Hope

Posted on July 14, 2003
Previously filed under: Africa, Health
When millions of people are dying and suffering from the consequences of AIDS, is there any reason to have hope?
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As Growth Slows, India Awakens to Need for Foreign Investment

International Herald Tribune - Wed, 02/08/2012 - 08:26
India’s central bank and economic analysts predict that growth will fall sharply to 7 percent this fiscal year and remain sluggish.

Social responsibility and a new world order

Washington Post - Innovations - Tue, 02/07/2012 - 07:56
Just before the New Year, the London-based Center for Economics and Business Research announced that Brazil had overtaken the United Kingdom as the world’s sixth largest economy. Furthermore, it predicted that by 2020, India and Russia will also have overtaken all the European economic powers.

Aid for trade policy rears its ugly head

The Guardian's Poverty Matters - Mon, 02/06/2012 - 01:41
The UK government's dismay at not being granted the contract for Typhoon fighter jets in India is an indication that its controversial aid for trade policy is still very much alive.

Liberia's battle to put the lights back on

The Guardian's Poverty Matters - Sun, 02/05/2012 - 23:00
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has set ambitious targets to restore the country's electricity supply. But will it meet them by 2015?

As Africa's consumers rise, so does inequality

Yale Global Online - Fri, 02/03/2012 - 10:17
Kenya struggles to spread the wealth from rapid growth.
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