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FILM: Challenging 500 Years of Globalisation
By Lucy Komisar
NEW YORK - To end poverty, you have to know how it began - with globalisation. No, not the 20th century variety engendered by multinationals and their friends at the IMF, World Bank and WTO. They just codified practices that kept developing countries poor.
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CHINA: Simmering Issues Boiling Up in Run-up to Obama Visit
By Antoaneta Bezlova
BEIJING - His victory speech is a smash hit on Internet sites; his image vies for popularity with those of communist China’s founding father Mao Zedong, and his book is a runway bestseller in this country’s big cities. But as China prepares to welcome him as the first black president of the United States, keen anticipation is mixed with unease.
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ECONOMY-US: "Green" Jobs Should Be Black and Brown Too
By Haider Rizvi
NEW YORK - The Barack Obama administration's drive to promote a "green" economy is not working in the interest of poor people in the United States, especially those who belong to minority communities, according to a new study by a leading think tank.
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UGANDA: "Mount Elgon Eviction Has Reduced Us to Beggars"*
By Wambi Michael
MOUNT ELGON, Uganda - "We have been reduced to begging from relatives and to migrate to urban areas where life is not safe. We were living in the mountain for more than 200 years. Transferring us means burying us, completely. We want to stay in our area and develop."
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AFRICA: Water Summit Ends
By Nasseem Ackbarally
MIDRAND, South Africa - As the Second Africa Water Week ends, participants have reiterated that lack of access to clean water and adequate sanitation has a direct bearing on public health and the economy in Africa.
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Q&A: Civil Society to Lose Major Supporter
Christi van der Westhuizen interviews GARA LaMARCHE and GERALD KRAAK of The Atlantic Philanthropies
CAPE TOWN - Human rights and democracy are causes that are never completely won, which is why civil society needs the support of philanthropists.
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WATER-AFRICA: Civil Society Demands Action, Not Words
By Nasseem Ackbarally
MIDRAND, South Africa - "No more commitments... We have had enough of the promises. Can we please see something happening on the ground? Right now, it is business as usual and that’s why Africa is off-track on the MDG target."
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CLIMATE CHANGE: Africa Told 'Stop Playing the Victim'
By Kristin Palitza
CAPE TOWN - Critics of carbon trading, a strategy meant to combat global warming, say the buying and selling of carbon credits is being exploited.
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CLIMATE CHANGE: Africa In the Global Carbon Trade
By Kristin Palitza
CAPE TOWN - Carbon trading, as promoted by the Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), has become a key global strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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U.S.: Obama to Meet Asian Leaders as China's Shadow Lengthens
By Eli Clifton
WASHINGTON - U.S. President Barack Obama's attendance at the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum leaders' meeting in Singapore next week will chart a new direction for U.S. participation in Asian multilateral diplomacy and call attention to the new administration's policy of engagement with the reclusive military-led government in Burma.
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AFRICA: Taking the Lead on Water
By Zenzele Ndebele and Nasseem Ackbarally
MIDRAND, South Africa - Water is a resource that binds people together, for better or worse.
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BRAZIL: Green Beans to Go, Roast Coffee Grounded
By Mario Osava
RIO DE JANEIRO - For over a century and a half, Brazil has led the world in green coffee bean production and exports, without ever achieving similar success with processed beans. Some of the internal and external hurdles reflect the dilemma of reliance on agricultural commodities for export revenue.
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JAPAN: Fresh Aid to Mekong Signals Rivalry with China -- Experts
By Catherine Makino
TOKYO - There is more to Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama’s pledge last week to extend at least 500 billion yen (5.6 billion U.S. dollars) in fresh assistance to the Mekong region than meets the eye, or so observers think.
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