Archive - May 31, 2006

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Can the Doha Round Be Salvaged?

Posted on June 1, 2006

Previously filed under: Trade

Failure to agree on market access could weaken the WTO.

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Keywords: wto, doha round

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China to Share Farming Expertise with Poorer Nations

Posted on June 1, 2006

Topics: Food
Countries: China
Previously filed under: Agriculture

China is sending scientists to spend three years helping rural African communities improve their food security.

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Keywords: Africa

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Water-Guzzling Industries 'A Threat' to China's North

Posted on June 1, 2006

Topics: Women, Economic Development, Climate and Environment
Countries: China
Previously filed under: Asia, Environment

The concentration of water-intensive and polluting industries in China's dry Northern provinces is raising concerns.

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Conference Ends, But Bio-Battles Set to Rage

Posted on June 1, 2006

Countries: Brazil
Previously filed under: Environment

The meetings of the Biosafety Protocol and Convention on Biological Diversity resulted in a general consensus on the need for fair sharing of global resources.

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Keywords: soya, Biological Diversity, biodiversity, Amazon

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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

The infoDev team has taken a closer look at his and the other five finalists’ backgrounds, and we found some helpful insights about new sources of innovation, their promise, and their needs.

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.