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While the eurozone makes headlines with its travails, the worst impact of the crisis is far away from Europe – in the world’s poorest countries. So says Lars Thunnel, the chief executive of the International Finance Corporation, the World ...
May 28, 2012 at 08:50 | Source: Financial Times
(AP) BONN, Germany - U.N. climate talks ran into gridlock Thursday as a widening rift between rich and poor countries risked undoing some advances made last year in the decades-long effort to control carbon emissions that scientists say are overheating the planet.
May 24, 2012 at 19:47 | Source: CBS News
BONN, Germany -- Another round of U.N. climate talks closed without resolving how to share the burden of curbing man-made global warming, mainly because countries don't agree on who is rich and who is poor. China wants to maintain a decades-old ...
May 26, 2012 at 01:58 | Source: San Jose Mercury News
And even if other factors are also important, as they surely are, is your point is that poor countries should ignore high prices, and focus all of their attention on solving every problem but high prices? How much access to herceptin, the patented biologic ...
May 25, 2012 at 11:10 | Source: Huffington Post
The fence that divides the city of Nogales is part of a natural experiment in organizing human societies. North of the fence lies the American city of Nogales, Arizona; south of it lies the Mexican city of Nogales, Sonora. On the American side, average ...
May 20, 2012 at 13:39 | Source: nybooks.com
With many countries chronically short of surgeons, should laymen be trained in emergency surgery? It is one of the trickier questions in global health. A new study by surgeons and global health specialists, mostly from Harvard Medical School ...
May 14, 2012 at 23:55 | Source: New York Times
And as the stress of daily living rises, the jobless often make poor choices, such as not reeducating themselves. Is there a solution to this gloom? Perhaps one lies in a hot new approach being tried in the world’s poorest countries, where people living ...
May 17, 2012 at 01:47 | Source: Alaska Dispatch
"More than one in four Africans—close to 218 million people—is undernourished," the UN Development Progam declared in a recent report. With food prices gyrating upward in recent years, the situation has reached a crisis. What's the answer?
May 25, 2012 at 09:23 | Source: Mother Jones
Kelli Bissett, Standard & Poor's credit analyst, reported that "Compounding the economic decline and sluggish recovery are structural weaknesses, including lower national savings rates than those of other emerging market countries, persistent current ...
May 29, 2012 at 00:00 | Source: Catholic Online
GENEVA — Health talks in Geneva on Friday could pave the way for a binding international convention to help fight the developing world’s major killer diseases, currently overlooked by the research industry. Delegates at the World Health ...
May 25, 2012 at 18:41 | Source: news.nationalpost.com