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- Czech Republic
  
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  Population 10.33 mln
  
  Population growth 1%
  
  Life expectancy 77 years
  
  Net migration 67,016
  
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  GDP $175 bln
  
  - per capita $16,934
  
  - growth rate 7%
  
  FDI, net inflows $9.29 bln
  
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  Internet users 48%
  
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Huff Post: The Best of TED 2011

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18 of 2011's most impactful TEDTalks combined with new blog posts written by the people who delivered them, examining how their ideas were impacted by being shared with a global audience. The HuffPost blogging community was also invited to weigh in on the issues and ideas raised by the talks.Why 18? It's a bit of an inside joke. TEDTalks are famously limited to no more than 18 minutes -- that way, no one has the chance to get bored. So 18 seemed like the perfect number for our countdown.Each of more...

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John Daly on February 20, 2012

Obama's Call for Educating Women

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As part of his historic Cairo address, President Barack Obama raised the hopes of millions of women around the world by highlighting how educating women can change the economic future of nations and promote equality. "I do believe that a woman who is denied an education is denied equality . . . countries where women are well-educated is far more likely to be prosperous" proclaimed President Obama. The president has a unique opportunity to fulfill these hopes by delivering on earlier promises to more...

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Kasem Ali on July 14, 2009

Gates Foundation, Drug Companies Push To Eliminate 10 Tropical Diseases

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"Thirteen major pharmaceutical companies, government groups and health charities will work together in a push to eliminate or control by 2020 10 tropical diseases that affect more than a billion people in poor countries."The partners, including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, call it the largest coordinated effort ever to combat neglected tropical diseases. The government groups and charities alone are committing just over $785 million in new funding."The drugmakers are donating more...

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John Daly on February 07, 2012

As Debt Talks Crescendo, Let's Not Give the World Bank a Free Ride

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The World Bank is supposed to be a multilateral development bank dedicated to poverty alleviation. It has also tried to position itself as a climate leader, for example, by rigorously documenting the disproportionate negative impacts that climate change will have -- and indeed is already having -- on developing countries. But regrettably for both the World Bank and the world's poor, actions speak louder than words. 2010 was a record-breaking year for World Bank funding of coal -- the dirtiest more...

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D C on August 09, 2011

Global Gender Action Plan to Increase Equity and Growth

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For all the progress women have made around the world, too many "gaps" persist -- the wage gap, poverty gap, education gap, technology gap, access-to-capital gap. By closing those gender gaps, we can increase both equity and growth -- and do it without breaking the bank.In a world where girls can spend more time collecting firewood or water than attending school, and where women can face restrictions inheriting property or getting a loan from a bank, it's high time we get them more involved in more...

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T.M. Abdullah al shafi on November 05, 2010

Somalia: A man-made famine

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Droughts can be mitigated and controlled when a nation has a functioning government. Somalia has not had a functioning central government for more than twenty years. Armed groups -- including the militant group Al Shabab - restricted the international community's access to wide swathes of the country they controlled. Aid agencies struggled to safely reach people inside the country to provide them with assistance. It is also donor governments' own restrictions on aid delivery that have further more...

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D C on October 16, 2011

Biodiversity on Earth Plummets, Despite Growth in Protected Habitats

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Over 100,000 so-called "protected areas" representing some 7 million square miles of land and nearly 1 million square miles of ocean have been established since the 1960's. Simply protecting swaths of land and sea -- a common conservation strategy worldwide -- is inadequate for preventing the steady disappearance of earth's creatures.he steady loss of biodiversity -- defined roughly as the rich variety of living things -- can, in turn, have profound implications for human civilization, which more...

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D C on August 08, 2011

Can USAID Reach Escape Velocity?

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"Can USAID be saved? The aid agency has been on the ropes for the last few years. First it was folded firmly into the State Department, reducing its independence. Then its problems were dissected in great and depressing detail by a former Administrator, Andrew Natsios. In an excellent paper, Natsios shows how a culture of compliance and caution has overwhelmed the agency, making it almost impossible for even the best staff to deliver results."Few would argue that USAID is on the ropes. But more...

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John Daly on October 22, 2010

Eradicating Polio: Let's Finish the Job

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Jeff Rakes, the CEO of the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation, writes: "Since 1988, when the world set the goal of eliminating the disease forever, the number of polio cases has gone down by 99 percent. Just two decades ago, the disease was circulating in 125 countries. Now, there are only four countries that have yet to control transmission of the polio virus."When we invest in polio eradication, we not only save lives, we also save money. In the United States alone, polio vaccination more...

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John Daly on September 08, 2010

The Dos and Don'ts of Disaster Relief Donations

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"With the recent earthquakes in both Haiti and Chile, everyone wants to help but many people struggle with the best way to do so. Choosing the best way to give is important as there are far too many examples of aid doing more harm than good. One common problem is the well-intentioned donation of medicine. Tens of thousands of dollars are spent after each major disaster disposing of metric tons of donated medicines that were inappropriate, incorrectly labeled, or unnecessary."As a leading expert more...

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John Daly on March 20, 2010

NGO Leaders Challenge G-20 Summit To Expand Scope

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Chief-of-Staff for President Obama Rahm Emanuel's quote of the year, 'you never want a serious crisis to go to waste' sounds glib taken out of context. But he is right. It takes extreme situations to force decisions that go against normal short-term political interests. So it is that governments such as the UK and the US are saddling their taxpayers with vast debts to bail out their banks and finance sector, spending unthinkable amounts of money for normal times (at least $8.4 trillion and more...

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Kasem Ali on April 03, 2009

G-20 Leaders To Give $1 Trillion To IMF, World Bank

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Anxiously assembled at the most perilous moment for the global economy since the Great Depression, the world's financial powers pledged more than $1 trillion Thursday for emergency loans to contain the contagion. But they rebuffed President Barack Obama's bid for new stimulus spending and made no guarantees of success. 'This was the day the world came together to fight back against global recession,' declared British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, the summit host, as he led a choreographed more...

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Kasem Ali on April 03, 2009

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