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Foreign Aid May Trump Development
By Ernest Corea
IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis
WASHINGTON DC (IDN) - Six decades after President Harry Truman raised the issue of bilateral development assistance as official policy, the dimensions of development and the demands on development assistance have been transformed.
Truman’s inaugural address of Jan. 20, 1949 called for “a bold new program for making the benefits of scientific advances and industrial progress available for the improvement and growth of underdeveloped areas.”
That was the last of four points promising a program of action to create enduring “peace and freedom.”
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UAE Migrant Workers’ Rights Draw Focus
By Mahmoud Awadi
IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis
ABU DHABI (IDN) - Human Rights Watch, deeply concerned about the alleged abuse of migrant workers in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), has spotted some positive signs on the horizon. The New York University (NYU) Abu Dhabi has agreed to insist with all companies building its campus to respect the rights of workers.
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How The U.S. Could Help Earthquake-Ravaged Haitians
By Helen Scott
IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis
(IDN) - While the mainstream media focuses on the apparently insurmountable difficulty of providing relief, there are two measures that the U.S. could immediately take that would greatly assist Haitians in Haiti and in the diaspora in this process of sustainable, democratic rebuilding: cancellation of Haiti's foreign debt, and a permanent overhaul of an immigration system that persistently discriminates against Haitians.
Haiti's foreign debt is the result of political actions by powerful foreign nations and institutions, in collusion with . . .
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COMMUNICATING UNITED NATIONS: ‘We Would Like To Be Creative’
Ramesh Jaura Talks To UN Under-Secretary-General KIYO AKASAKA
IDN-InDepth NewsInterview
BERLIN/NEW YORK (IDN) - Imagine blockbusters made in Bollywood and Hollywood with disarmament, climate change, millennium development goals and women as central themes – and the opening scenes showing a sign that says: “United Nations. It’s your world.”
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Nuclear Divorce, Italian Style?
By Roberto Bianchi
IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis
ROME (IDN) - The nuclear resurgence in Italy -- triggered by the adoption of new energy legislation in July 2009 -- is set to burst like a soap bubble in the wake of an inter-regional body rejecting the energy policy pursued by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s government.
With an eye on regional elections on March 28, Berlusconi himself is expected to drop the pro-nuclear stance so as to win the polls.
This outlook is a source of concern to the International Energy Agency (IEA). Its Executive Director Nobuo Tanaka said in Rome on February 3 that “a clear integrated long-term vision for the energy sector” including nuclear power was necessary.
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OECD Has Good News For China
By Ronald Joshua
IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis
BERLIN/PARIS (IDN) - China is leading the world economy out of recession and the country is poised to overtake the United States to become the leading producer of manufactured goods in the next five to seven years.
This is not an excerpt from a report by a government ministry in Beijing but the upshot of the Economic Survey of China, the second since 2005, by the 30-nation Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) based in Paris.
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Europe Encouraging Nuclear Energy ‘Renaissance’
By Tatjana Baumann
IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis
BRUSSELS (IDN) – Backed by energy-related corporations, the European Commission and individual European countries are backing nuclear power resurgence in Europe and beyond its borders.
This is indicated by the launching of the European Nuclear Energy Leadership Academy (ENELA) and the signing of bilateral agreement between Spain and Jordan to cooperate in the field of the peaceful use of nuclear energy, including for power generation and water desalination.
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FINANCIAL CRISIS: Will Labour Ever Count?
By Babukar Kashka
IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis
GENEVA (IDN) – Shortly before the latest bankruptcy of six other U.S. banks, bringing their total to over 170 in two years, the UN revealed that the number of jobless worldwide has hit a record high in 2009.
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ECONOMIC RENEWAL IN THE U.S.: Does ‘Wait’ Mean ‘Never’?
By Ernest Corea
IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis
WASHINGTON DC (IDN) - Article II, Section 3, of the U.S. constitution directs the president “from time to time” to give the Houses of Congress information on the State of the Union, and “recommend to their Consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient.”
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“Please Cut Emissions and Help Us Adapt”
Tatjana Baumann Talks To IPCC Agronomist DR. RAMADJITA TABO
IDN-InDepth NewsInterview
BERLIN (IDN) – Africa is profoundly vulnerable to climate change though the entire continent produces only four per cent of the global total carbon dioxide emissions, says Dr. Ramadjita Tabo, an eminent agronomist from the Chad and a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007.
In an interview with IDN correspondent Tatjana Baumann during a visit to Germany in January, Dr. Tabo -- who is Deputy Executive Director of FARA -- said that a continent which is hardly contributing to global warming should not be asked to take “more or less the same level of measures as the developed countries”.
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