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Ensaios Imperfeitos (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
• States and companies target developing nations • Small farmers at risk from industrial-scale deals Julian Borger , guardian.co.uk , Rich governments and corporations are triggering alarm for the poor as they buy up the rights to millions of hectares of agricultural land in developing countries in an effort to secure their own long-term food supplies. The head of the UN Food and...
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Thoughts About K4D (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago
Prospects for enhanced US interest in promoting science in developing countries have been substantially raised by two appointments to the team set up by president-elect Barack Obama to oversee the design and staffing of his new administration.
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 16 hours ago
Rich governments and corporations are triggering alarm for the poor as they buy up the rights to millions of hectares of agricultural land in developing countries in an effort to secure their own long-term food supplies. The head of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation, Jacques Diouf, has warned that the controversial rise in land deals could create a form of "neo-colonialism", with...
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TODAY ON VOT3R - Politics STORIES (Free subscription) | 16 hours ago
Rich governments and corporations are triggering alarm for the poor as they buy up the rights to millions of hectares of agricultural land in developing countries in an effort to secure their own long-term food supplies. The head of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation, Jacques Diouf, has warned...
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Xtacash (Free subscription) | 17 hours ago
Rich governments and corporations are triggering alarm for the poor as they buy up the rights to millions of hectares of agricultural land in developing countries in an effort to secure their own long-term food supplies. The head of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation, Jacques Diouf, has warned that the controversial rise in land deals could create a form of "neo-colonialism", with...
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | yesterday
While officials in the United Kingdom and the U.S. are "dithering and doubting" over issues related to GlaxoSmithKline and Merck's HPV vaccines, "there is an urgent need" for Gardasil and Cervarix in developing countries, Sarah Boseley -- health editor at London's Guardian -- writes in an opinion piece.
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Unicef (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
NEW YORK, USA, 20 November 2008 – Child sexual exploitation has long been a known evil in developing countries where the combination of tourism and poverty make for a lucrative business. But at least 300,000 children and adolescents are prostituted every year in the United States, according to a University of Pennsylvania study. An estimated 2,200 of them are in New York City.
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Dlist (Free subscription) | 11/19/2008
Singh, Professor Jagtar and Shokeen, Dr. Ashu and Mahajan, Dr. Preeti and Kaur, Dr Trishanjit and Hosamani, Mr. H G and Chauhan, Mr. Suresh K (2007) LIS Education and Research Areas for Developing Countries . Convention on Automation of Libraries in Education and Research Institutions, Delhi, India.
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Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
Online Map Shows Ease of Doing Business in 175 Countries The World Bank Group has created the “Doing Business Map,” a visual learning tool to complement the Doing Business database, which provides objective measures of business regulations and their enforcement across 175 economies. Take a trip around the world to discover how easy (or difficult) it is [...]
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The Green Changemakers (Free subscription) | 11/17/2008
http://www.indigodev.com/ADBHBdownloads.html Ernest Lowe produced this new and revised edition of the Eco-Industrial Park Handbook under a contract with the Asian Development Bank. It is available as MS Word 97 files. This page is set up for both Internet Explorer and Netscape. With Netscape you can download the files directly. With Explorer the file first displays in the browser and then you can save...
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Center for Global Development (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
FEATURES The global financial crisis and economic slowdown are subjecting poor countries to increased financial, price, and output volatility. How can the multilateral development banks help? A new CGD brief by visiting fellow Nancy Lee, non-resident fellow Guillermo Perry, and CGD president Nancy Birdsall makes the case for a broad range of new and expanded activities to help developing...
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/17/2008
The Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, UNCTAD, Supachai Panitchpadki, last Thursday told an executive session of UNCTAD's Trade and Development Board (TDB) that aid and other economic support to developing countries must not dry up as richer nations struggle to cope with their own financial turmoil.
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Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | 11/17/2008
China got what it wanted in Washington's financial summit - a promise of a bigger role for developing countries in global finance - but gave no sign yesterday of whether it will respond by using any of its $1.9 trillion in reserves in a bailout fund.
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Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | 11/17/2008
China got what it wanted in Washington's financial summit - a promise of a bigger role for developing countries in global finance - but gave no sign yesterday of whether it will respond by using any of its $1.9 trillion in reserves in a bailout fund.
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Times of the Internet (Free subscription) | 11/15/2008
WASHINGTON, Nov. 15 (UPI) -- The G20 economic summit that began Saturday in Washington is being attended by leaders of a number of developing countries, analysts say. Analysts told The Washington Post while attendance at such major international gatherings typically only involve major countries such as the United States, Russia and Japan, these talks have drawn together leaders...
