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Migrant Birds Should Not be Bird Flu Scapegoats

Posted on October 31, 2005

Previously filed under: Asia, Health

Researchers say birds such as the Sarus Crane could be threatened with extinction by a bird flu outbreak.

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Eye on Europe - Grappling with Globalization

Posted on October 31, 2005

Previously filed under: Europe and Middle East, General Globalization

British Prime Minister Tony Blair is using his country's presidency of the EU to challenge globalization's critics head-on.

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Keywords: Europe, globlization, Tony Blair

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Health - Lesson Plan on Prescription Drug Prices

Posted on October 31, 2005

Previously filed under: Lesson Plans

Students will learn about the issue of prescription drug prices in the U.S. and how globalization impacts the available remedies to lower the costs to American consumers.

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Health - Unit on Health & Globalization

Posted on October 31, 2005

Previously filed under: Lesson Plans

Students will study how globalization has affected health, and learn about international public health officials' suggested responses to the spread of infectious diseases.

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Free Trade and Trade Justice

Posted on October 31, 2005

Previously filed under: Trade

A recent Globalization Institute report argues that free trade, not trade justice is the solution to world poverty.

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Keywords: trade, fair trade, development, trade report

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Investment - Unit on Globalization and Foreign Investment

Posted on October 31, 2005

Previously filed under: Lesson Plans

In this unit, students will learn about the role of foreign investment in an economy and the differences between foreign direct investment and foreign portfolio investment.

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Remittances: Over the sea and far away

Economist - Special Report - Thu, 05/17/2012 - 08:05

For consumers who want to “wire” money to some far corner of the world, not much has changed since the days of the Old West. If you try to send a small amount of money from America to the Philippines, say, or Mexico, you will probably have to queue at a neighbourhood money-transfer agent and pay a fee that could easily reach 10% of the value of the remittance.

Mobile payments: A wealth of wallets

Economist - Special Report - Thu, 05/17/2012 - 08:05

Turn left off the main reception to PayPal’s offices in San Jose, open a nondescript door and you step into a garish living room dominated by a flat-screen television. This is a laboratory for what PayPal calls “couch commerce”: people sit in front of the television buying things with their mobile phones or tablet computers.

Expose, engage, empower: Connecting unlikely entrepreneurs in the mobile era

World Bank: Private Sector Development Blog - Wed, 05/16/2012 - 12:48

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Breeding Wheat To Grow Where Other Plants Can’t

Fast Company's Co.Exist - Wed, 05/16/2012 - 14:00

We need to nearly double the amount of food we grow by mid-century if 9 billion people are going to have enough to eat. Yet most of the world’s prime farmland is already planted. The rest of the available land tends to lie under forests, or suffer from problems that keep it fallow. But feeding the world will mean redefining what is "arable" land.