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Indranil Banerjie , IPS Inter Press Service - Development
NEW DELHI, Oct 14 (IPS) - Participants at The Third India-Brazil-South Africa (IBSA) Business Forum 2008 came together here to debunk the belief that development of bio-fuels would invariably exacerbate global hunger. Conventional wisdom has it that increased production of bio-fuel -- particularly ethanol -- will invariably result in decreasing acreage...
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Oct 14, 2008
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Stephen de Tarczynski , IPS Inter Press Service - Development
MELBOURNE, Oct 14 (IPS) - While it may be a relic from the past, a common assumption in Australia is that indigenous people are particularly susceptible to alcohol and its effects. But a Canberra-based anthropologist is aiming to dispel such myths....
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Oct 14, 2008
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Analysis by John Feffer , IPS Inter Press Service - Development
WASHINGTON, Oct 14 (IPS) - After more than 15 years in the drafting, Burma unveiled its new constitution in February. The 194-page document has generated a widely disparate response....
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Oct 14, 2008
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Kathryn Strachan , IPS Inter Press Service - Development
JOHANNESBURG, Oct 13 (IPS) - Amid the hardship facing Ethiopia's children, there are signs that conditions may be improving and that children's lives are changing for the better....
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Oct 13, 2008
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Mario Osava* , IPS Inter Press Service - Development
RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct 13 (IPS) - The financial crisis that originated in the United States demonstrates, more clearly than any previous such event, the distance between capital markets and ordinary citizens, especially in developing countries....
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Oct 13, 2008
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Abid Aslam , IPS Inter Press Service - Development
WASHINGTON, Oct 13 (IPS) - The worst market crisis since the 1930s has dominated financial leaders' talks here, stoking misgivings that the world's poor are being overlooked....
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Oct 13, 2008
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Mario Osava , IPS Inter Press Service - Development
RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct 13 (IPS) - Having failed, to date, to play an active role in the current global financial crisis, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) may become a symbol of the end of an era and the need for a different system, more suitable to today’s new world order....
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Oct 13, 2008
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Malini Shankar* , IPS Inter Press Service - Development
BANGALORE, Oct 13 (IPS) - A great variety of endangered wildlife species end up feeding the illegal market for Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) thanks to poor enforcement in stopping the trade, say experts and activists....
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Oct 13, 2008
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Antoaneta Bezlova , IPS Inter Press Service - Development
BEIJING, Oct 13 (IPS) - Faced with a deepening global financial meltdown, the Chinese communist party is contemplating far-reaching internal reforms capable of insulating the country from the worst effects of the crisis such as by loosening its grip over land ownership....
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Oct 13, 2008
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Ephraim Nsingo , IPS Inter Press Service - Development
HARARE, Oct 13 (IPS) - Every evening, Barbara Taruvona, the owner of New Styles Hair salon in Harare has to face a queue of her employees at the entrance to her office for their daily cash allowance for transport....
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