A recently released United Nations report details the environmental consequences of the South Asian tsunami. Sewage, asbestos, and oil have contaminated groundwater throughout the region. The ecological disaster has spread to Somalia, whose coastline has long been used as a dumping ground for...
NAIROBI: Regions hit by the 26 December 2004 tsunami have been seriously contaminated by saltwater, bacteria and even nuclear waste, says a report released last week by the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP...
Long known for its opposition to genetically modified organisms, Germany will soon allow the cultivation and sale of GM foods. The minister for consumer protection, food, and agriculture, herself a member of the pro-environment Green party, says the new laws will benefit farmers looking to grow GM...
After months of negotiations, the German government has agreed to allow the cultivation and sale of genetically modified crops in Germany.
Calling the bill “a great success for consumers and farmers...
The annual meeting of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund in Washington, D.C. provided critics an occasion to lambaste rich nations for their hypocrisy in preaching free trade while protecting their own farmers and workers. Is anybody listening? Farm subsidies and protection...
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With the outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), all fingers are pointing to China. World Health Organization Officials believe the disease spread more quickly because of China’s reluctance to admit that the disease originated in its Guangzhou region. The outbreak went undetected by...
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Martin Wolf believes that the current era of globalization is better positioned to maintain its momentum than was the globalization wave of the late 19th and early 20th century. The earlier period’s economic integration collapsed between 1914 and 1945 due to 4 factors: 1) the rise of militarism,...
The terrorists who attacked the US on September 11 were mortal enemies of the US. But the US is not just a country, it is also a set of ideas. Among the ideas it has stood for over more than half a century is a liberal...
India's love-hate relationship with multi-national corporations (MNCs) is more complicated than simple fear of big, faceless companies. MNCs bring jobs (but also "hire-and-fire" policies), consumer choice (that push traditional foods out of the market), and brand-name products (...
On Thursday, October 16, while Cadbury India's managers were busy with their fire-fighting mission after a wriggle of worms was found in cocoa powder boxes just down the road from their Mahalaxmi headquarters in Mumbai...
As Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi draws more attention, the international community has begun responding. The Association of South-east Asian Nations (ASEAN), breaking with its policy of non-interference in the internal affairs of member states, pressed the Myanmar government to release...
BREAKING with its policy of non-interference in the internal affairs of member states, the Association of South-east Asian Nations (Asean) has urged the Myanmar government to free Aung San Suu Kyi, who, along with other...
不同时代人口问题不同，遵循马寅初的思想方法和坚持“说真话”的权利，《人物》的穆光宗分析了21世纪新形势下中国的人口问题。在他看来，马寅初所处的时代（从20世纪50年代到70年代）的主要特征是短缺经济，其人口问题是福利性资源供给短缺型、供给约束型，而进入21世纪，在当下的“后马寅初时代”，人口问题则是权利约束型、结构失衡型，主要表现为：快速的人口老龄化、严重的出生性别比失调、人口发展风险的增加等。因此，对于独生子女政策而言，到了家庭生命周期的中后期，其家庭将是一个高风险家庭，其社会将是一个高风险社会，而随着生育率的大幅度下降，人口发展的风险就慢慢积累起来。在这种情况下，可以鼓励生两胎，同时，...
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