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Challengers for World Bank leadership ask for ‘a fair chance’

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"Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Nigeria’s finance minister, is Africa’s standard-bearer in the contest to become World Bank president. Jose Antonio Ocampo, a former Colombian finance minister, is being championed by South America."Both say they are better qualified for the job than the American candidate tapped by President Obama last week. But beyond that, each says the other would be better than Obama’s pick."The White House nominated Dartmouth College President Jim Yong Kim for the top World Bank more...

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John Daly on April 01, 2012

How to find the best leader for the World Bank

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World Bank President Robert Zoellick has announced that he would step down at the end of June, In this article Mohamed A. El-Erian offers his prescription for the search for a new president. He opposes the traditional unilateral choice by the United States in favor of a more consultative and cooperative process. The opinion piece was published in The Washington Post on February 16, 2012.

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John Daly on March 03, 2012

New study doubles estimate of global malaria deaths

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"The number of people who die annually of malaria is roughly double the current estimate, with a huge overlooked death toll in adults who, according to conventional teaching, rarely die of the tropical disease. That’s the conclusion of a new study that, if widely accepted, could affect billions of dollars of charitable spending and foreign aid in the developing world. The new estimate is likely to spur increased competition for global health spending, which has stalled in the economic more...

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John Daly on February 03, 2012

Food safety advocates decry FDA cuts

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Budget cuts proposed by House Republicans to the Food and Drug Administration would undermine the agency’s ability to carry out a historic food-safety law passed by Congress just five months ago, food safety advocates say.The legislation, passed in December, is the first major change to the nation’s food-safety laws since 1938. It calls for the FDA to significantly step up scrutiny of domestic and imported food and devise a new system aimed at preventing the kind of contamination that sickens more...

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D C on May 31, 2011

How I would lead the World Bank

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The current president of the World Bank has announced he is to step down on June 30. In this opinion piece in The Washington Post, Jeffrey Sachs declares his candidacy for the presidency of the World Bank and briefly describes his program for the job. Published March 1, 2012.

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John Daly on March 03, 2012

In London riots, BlackBerry Messenger gets starring role

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The quick spread of the riots and violence in London over the last few days seem to have taken Britain by surprise. It seems the rioters had a key assist from a technology not often making headlines: BlackBerry Messenger (or BBM for short). It’s put Blackberry at the center of the riots, with a London MP asking the company to turn off the technology. A hacking group going by the name of TeaMp0isoN_ broke onto the Blackberry blog and posted a message saying that if the company assists the UK more...

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D C on August 14, 2011

Virtual schools are multiplying, but some question their educational value

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This article focuses on a private corporation, K12 Inc., the largest provider of virtual schooling in the United States with 98 thousand students this year. It also discusses the overall use of virtual schooling in the United States."About 250,000 students are enrolled in full-time public virtual schools in 30 states, according to Susan Patrick of the International Association for K-12 Online Learning, a trade association. Although that’s just a fraction of the country’s 50 million more...

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John Daly on November 27, 2011

Five myths about the future of journalism

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The key to media in the 21st century may be who has the most knowledge of audience behavior, not who produces the most popular content. Understanding what sites people visit, what content they view, what products they buy and even their geographic coordinates will allow advertisers to better target individual consumers. And more of that knowledge will reside with technology companies than with content producers.Google, for instance, will know much more about each user than will the proprietor more...

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D C on May 24, 2011

Mubarak's Egypt, Privatization and the Role of US Aid

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Since the 1970s, USAID has provided billions of dollars in economic help to Egypt in exchange for promises of liberalization along lines of the Washington Consensus. This piece of investigative journalism by the Washington Post chronicles how US pressure to privatize, by way of the foreign aid system, promoted rampant corruption, thereby fueling public anger toward the top of the political class.

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David Sogge on October 21, 2011

Dangerously silent on human rights

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In a speech to the U.N. General Assembly last September Barack Obama suggested that his administration's notoriously weak defense of human rights around the world would be invigorated. "We will call out those who suppress ideas and serve as a voice for those who are voiceless," he said. He went on to urge other democracies: "Don't stand idly by, don't be silent, when dissidents elsewhere are imprisoned and protestors are beaten."Just over two months later, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham more...

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Adit Rahman on January 05, 2011

Five myths about the war in Afghanistan

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The war in Afghanistan is in its ninth year, and even officials supportive of the U.S. presence there acknowledge the challenges that remain. "People still need to understand there is some very hard fighting and very hard days ahead," Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said during his trip to Afghanistan last week. But the conflict is not hopeless, nor it is eternal. If we want to develop realistic expectations about the war -- how it might unfold from here and when it could begin to wind down more...

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Kasem Ali on March 14, 2010

In Ecuador, an Unusual Carbon-Credit Plan to Leave Oil Untapped

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Beneath the tropical jungles of northeastern Ecuador lies a vast pool of oil, representing one-fifth of the small Andean country's petroleum reserves and potentially billions of dollars in revenue. Directly above that pool, the Yasuni National Park is home to a diversity of wildlife that is among the richest on the planet, Ecuadoran and U.S. biologists say. Faced with these two treasures, Ecuador is pursuing an unusual plan to reap the oil profits without actually drilling for oil. more...

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Kasem Ali on May 27, 2009

Online Retailing Peak Season in the United States

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Online retailers are depicted as especially competitive in November and December, which are the major sales months in the U.S. retail market. $32 billion in online spending is expected to be at stake this holiday season. Cyber Monday (the Monday after the Thanksgiving weekend) may be the online equivalent of Black Friday (the day after the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday legendary for its in-person sales). (Thanksgiving is celebrated on the 4th Thursday of November each year). However, last year more...

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John Daly on November 17, 2006

Charles Dickens, Defender of Civilization

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The story of a girl subjected to a deadly social experiment more than century ago has haunted the Tasmanian novelist Richard Flanagan for decades. As a young man, he was looking at some early-19th-century paintings at the Hobart Museum, when he spotted a watercolor of a child in a pretty red dress. The curator explained that she was Mathinna, an aboriginal child taken in by the renowned Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin in the 1830s while he was lieutenant governor of Tasmania, then called Van more...

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Kasem Ali on May 27, 2009

New Analysis Brings Dire Forecast of 6.3-Degree Temperature Increase

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Climate researchers now predict the planet will warm by 6.3 degrees Fahrenheit by the end of the century even if the world's leaders fulfill their most ambitious climate pledges, a much faster and broader scale of change than forecast just two years ago, according to a report released Thursday by the United Nations Environment Program.The new overview of global warming research, aimed at marshaling political support for a new international climate pact by the end of the year, highlights the more...

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Kasem Ali on November 21, 2009

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