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Some stretches of British coastline are doomed because of rising seas, climate change and erosion and are not worth inhabiting, insuring or developing, suggests the head of Britain’s Environment Agency. The British agency is drawing up a series of maps that assess coastal erosion over the next 100 years and identify priority areas. The agency will then work with the public to achieve consensus on...

Food prices have risen sharply in recent months, contributing to poverty, protests and general insecurity. Blaming free markets for the crisis, though, is a mistake, contends Ernesto Zedillo director of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization, in his column for Forbes Magazine. Droughts and increased demand by growing Asian nations alone did not contribute to climbing prices. “To get the...

Over the past three decades, China has transformed its economy from drab and close-minded socialism to a creative energy that embraces global integration, notes Nayan Chanda in his column for Businessworld. China’s long history demonstrates that isolationist thinking, fear and rigid conformity do not contribute to a prosperous strong economy, prepared to wrestle with global problems. With...