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Anna is a Global Envision intern. She is an English and Comparative Literature Studies Major at Occidental College in Los Angeles, California where she also works on the school newspaper.

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Aug 14, 2009 - Economic Improvements in West Bank = Political Gains for Palestinians?
Aug 12, 2009 - Bamboo Bikes
Jun 25, 2009 - Rio de Janeiro Deforestation Plan


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'Quiet Corruption' Hurting Africa's Poor

San Francisco Chronicle - Mon, 03/15/2010 - 09:22
A World Bank report says teachers and other public servants who don't show up for work are fueling "quiet corruption" throughout Africa that is disproportionately hurting the continent's poor.

Industrial Output Up; Hopes For Factories Grow

NPR - Mon, 03/15/2010 - 08:45
Industrial production edged up 0.1 percent in February, beating expectations and marking the eighth straight monthly increase.

Cash For Work and Planning for the Future

Mercy Corps Blog - Sun, 03/14/2010 - 23:23
Two Mercy Corps workers talk with 62-year-old Rosemarie Joseph in her makeshift tent at the Lycée Jean-Marie Vincent displacement camp in Port-au-Prince.

Price Gap Spices Sugar Fight

Wall Street Journal - Tue, 03/16/2010 - 21:09
The battle over U.S. sugar quotas is flaring once more as the gap between domestic and much-lower global prices reaches its widest level in at least a decade.

Ushahidi - Africa’s Gift to Silicon Valley

International Herald Tribune - Sun, 03/14/2010 - 12:08
A small Kenyan-born Web site is bringing crowdsourcing to disaster relief and other humanitarian causes.
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