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The G-8 Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative (MDRI) is the next step of the Highly Indebted Poor Countries Initiative (HIPC). There are two reasons why MDRI is unlikely to help poor countries. First, the amount of money at stake is trivial. The roughly $2
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Some argue that sovereign debt incurred without the consent of the people and not for their benefit, such as that of apartheid South Africa, should be considered odious and not transferable to successor governments. We argue that an institution that truth
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Despite the groundward gyrations of new economy stocks, worrying about the ‘digital divide’ has remained a popular preoccupation of academics, NGOs, development policymakers, and G-8 summiteers. The core of the digital divide creed is that the spread
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In these days of blurred ethnic barriers, our resident cultural critic looks at the current state of race relations, and how one troublesome word came to define — and defame — an entire social stereotype.
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PopMatters is an international magazine of cultural criticism. Our scope is broadly cast on all things pop culture, and our content is updated daily, Monday through Friday. We provide intelligent reviews, engaging interviews, and in-depth essays on most c
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This paper asks whether new technological capacity for producing and exporting additional products provides incentives for greater capital accumulation, without being fully reflected in a higher rate of total factor productivity (TFP) growth. Using a high
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Those air-conditioners that keep things cool and comfortable inside are helping make the outside world even nastier.
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Felipe Calderon, the apparent winner of Mexico’s presidential election, was heckled by angry protesters in downtown Mexico City on July 18. Polarizing public opinion is one of the objectives of defeated presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s
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They terrorize other government officials, and they’re so secretive that their names aren’t even revealed to a harmless federal employee directory. And they’ve helped ruin the country. Meet Dick Cheney’s staff.
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Intute is a free online service providing you with access to the very best Web resources for education and research. The service is created by a network of UK universities and partners. Subject specialists select and evaluate the websites in our database
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At the moment, we are asked to believe, the British are all the rage in America.
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The Online Books Page is a website that facilitates access to books that are freely readable over the Internet. It also aims to encourage the development of such online books, for the benefit and edification of all.
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Summary: Osama bin Laden’s attacks on the United States were aimed at another audience: the entire Muslim world. Hoping that U.S. retaliation would unite the faithful against the West, bin Laden sought to spark revolutions in Arab nations and elsewhere.
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…Kris Hall, a Dexter native and recent graduate of the Maine College of Art, was told Thursday that she must leave Wal-Mart property as she offers her audio walking tour that is critical of store policies…
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Elected as Spain’s leader three days after the Madrid bombings and pursuing a liberal agenda, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero sleeps well.
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As Jacques Chirac opens the Elysée Palace on July 14th, for his annual garden party, it is surely clear that this Bastille Day will be his last as president. Although the 73-year-old veteran has said he will decide whether to run again for next spring’s
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Each eight-page weekly issue of the MANAS Journal contained several short essays, crafted from a wide variety of sources, that reflected on the human condition. Written, edited, and published for 41 years by Henry Geiger, the MANAS Journal was the work of
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Fifty years old this month, the album chart has tracked the history of pop. But only a select few records have actually altered the course of music. To mark the anniversary, Kitty Empire pays tribute to a sublime art form, and our panel of critics argues
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As part of our annual report, Inc. studied 393 population centers across the nation, identifying job creation and other signs of business vitality. What did we find? The big cities are idling, and the real entrepreneurial hot spots are on the periphery -
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The Index Translationum is a list of books translated in the world, i.e. an international bibliography of translations. The database contains cumulative bibliographical information on books translated and published in about one hundred of the UNESCO Membe
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This site has been designed to organize scientific information, both on and off the Web, around a number of fundamental “open questions” - the questions that motivate leading edge basic scientific research. By exploring the pages here you can gain an unde
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The Digital Library of Appalachia provides online access to archival and historical materials related to the culture of the southern and central Appalachian region. The contents of the DLA are drawn from special collections of Appalachian College Associat
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A bad boss can drive you nuts! Long hours, low pay. Hard work, no health insurance. The boss gets a golden parachute, you get no pension, no respect. You need a break. Tell us all about it and you could win a much-needed vacation.
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Bayesian consumers infer that hidden add-on prices (e.g. the cost of ink for a printer) are likely to be high prices. If consumers are Bayesian, firms will not shroud information in equilibrium. However, shrouding may occur in an economy with some myopic
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A videogame parody of the Kinko’s copy store, a source of frustration from its patrons. Disaffected! puts the player in the role of employees forced to service customers under the particular incompetences common to a Kinko’s store. From a new series o
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The growing debate over the impacts of global capitalism presents a paradox. Global firms have demonstrated their ability to create wealth around the world, but the benefits of the capabilities of these firms and of the global market system do not yet rea
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Travelers are considerably more confident in their safety while flying within North American cities than they are while traveling abroad, according to the J.D. Power and Associates 2006 North America Airport Satisfaction StudySM released today. The study
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The Astrophysics Visualization Archive is a resource for visualizations (movies) that demonstrate astronomical or astrophysical phenomena. Choose from one of these categories:
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In the course of the year long research for ‘Cities of the future – global competition, local leadership’, senior figures from over 40 cities around the world were interviewed by PricewaterhouseCoopers. From these interviews emerged key trends which
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We’ve collected and analyzed data from numerous sources to create as complete and interesting profiles of all U.S. cities as we could. We have tens of thousands of city photos not found anywhere else, hundreds of thousands of maps, satellite photos, stat
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The Ancient World Mapping Center promotes cartography, historical geography and geographic information science as essential disciplines within the field of ancient studies through innovative and collaborative research, teaching, and community outreach act
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Everyone fears failure. But breakthroughs depend on it. The best companies embrace their mistakes and learn from them.
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The place: Rockefeller Chapel. The event: the annual “Aims of Education” address to College first-years. The conclusion: education has no aims.
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Simmering conflict in Congo has killed 4 million people since 1998, yet few choose to cover the story. TIME looks at a forgotten nation–and what’s needed to prevent the deaths of millions more.
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The Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture Project strives to offer a definitive, comprehensive, and accurate record of the twenty-fifth state. The online version of the Encyclopedia is the first component of the Project. The online version of the Enc
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The Center for the Languages of the Central Asian Region (CeLCAR) is dedicated to promoting the teaching and learning of the languages and cultures of Central Asia. CeLCAR is developing textbooks, multimedia resources, and distance language learning cours
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Every three years, the Committee for Development Policy (CDP) of the United Nations designates a group of least developed countries (LDCs), which today form a group of fifty states (see table 1). In theory, these countries are the poorest of the poor, “
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Established in 1964, UNCTAD promotes the development-friendly integration of developing countries into the world economy. UNCTAD has progressively evolved into an authoritative knowledge-based institution whose work aims to help shape current policy debat
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The Mercosur summit in Cordoba, Argentina, on 20-21 July comes at a key moment in South America’s integration process. To understand its significance, Justin Vogler talks to the leading Brazilian historian, Luiz Alberto Moniz Bandeira.
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Last month, Hamas militants tunneled into Israel and kidnapped an Israeli soldier. Israel immediately invaded Gaza. Hamas began lobbing rockets into Israel. The Lebanese group Hezbollah kidnapped two more Israelis near the Lebanon-Israel border. Israel re
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The latest violence in the Middle East demonstrates the bankruptcy of the Bush administration’s grand design for the region. The Iraq war was going to display American power, promote democracy, strengthen moderates, and secure Israel. Instead, the quagmir
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We will continually post columns on this site for viewers who can’t otherwise afford to pay for a subscription to read them. The columns are posted strictly for educational and informational purposes. The columns will be posted at least one day after they
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In this study I will explore how resilience is related to culture. Do different cultures generate resilience in different ways? As a background I present a model of resilience developed from a review of a number of studies as well as my own research. This
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Suppressing a market is a bit like squeezing a balloon—the trade will usually pop up somewhere else. The Soviet Union was full of markets. The factory in north Vladivostok would be allocated too much sheet metal but not enough coal. The factory in south
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The New Georgia Encyclopedia provides an authoritative source of information about people, places, events, institutions, and many other topics relating to the state.
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Debunking Economics takes you behind the sanitized, airbrushed view of economics given by its textbooks, and details the many critiques which have been made of economic theory by economists, in a fashion which is accessible to the intelligent non-economis
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Entender en la planificación, programación, ejecución, control, fiscalización y asesoramiento de la actividad geográfica, a nivel nacional, a fin de satisfacer los objetivos y políticas establecidas por el Poder Ejecutivo Nacional, contribuyendo a u
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The CIAS is dedicated to studying the political, economic, historical and cultural aspects of the region which occupies the vast territory from the China Sea to Eastern Europe. It seeks to advance knowledge of the area through dialogue and publication.
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We are a National Resource Center funded by the Title VI Program of the U.S. Department of State, promoting in-depth interdisciplinary study of all major postcommunist subregions-Eastern and Central Europe, the Baltic region, the Caucasus and Central Asia
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National Assembly and House of Chiefs
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L’Institut Géographique du Burkina Faso est un Etablissement Public à caractère Administratif chargé de la conception, la mise en oeuvre et le suivi de la politique nationale en matière de cartographie.
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As Canada’s national topographic mapping agency, the Centre for Topographic Information of Natural Resources Canada is responsible for the acquisition, management and dissemination of topographic information for the Canadian landmass.
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IGAC, tiene como Objetivo “Cumplir el mandato constitucional referente a la elaboración y actualización del mapa oficial de la República; desarrollar las políticas y ejecutar los planes del Gobierno Nacional en materia de cartografía, agrología, c
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The Czech Office for Surveying, Mapping and Cadastre is an autonomous supreme body of the state administration of surveying, mapping and cadastre in the Czech Republic. The president of COSMC is subordinated only to the prime minister of the Government. T
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The National Cartographic Center of Iran (NCC) is one of the organizations under the Management and Planning Organization (MPO). NCC has a 50 year history in map production and is responsible for planning, directing, standardization and supervision of map
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Royal Jordanian Geographic Centre (RJGC) was established in 1975 as a national agency responsible for all survey related feilds; Aerial and Space Surveying as well as producing maps at all types and scales.
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AVC aims to help Armenians in the diaspora and Armenia reap the benefits of working together for the common goal of building a strong country and nation. Since 2001, AVC has assisted scores of volunteers in finding fulfilling placements in schools, non-pr
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trendwatching.com is an independent and opinionated trend firm, scanning the globe for the most promising consumer trends, insights and related hands-on business ideas. For the latest and greatest, we rely on our network of 8,000+ spotters in more than 70
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For local business ideas and observations, which may appear in one of our newsletters (Springwise New Business Ideas and trendwatching.com), we rely on our Springspotter Network: thousands of business-savvy individuals from all over the world, who email u
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311 is New York City’s phone number for government information and non-emergency services. Whether you’re a resident, business owner, or a visitor, all the resources of New York City are just a phone call away…
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The Center for Russian and East European Studies (CREES), a constituent unit of the University of Michigan International Institute, is one of the nation’s leading institutes for interdisciplinary research and training in Russian and East European studies.
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The Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia (CREECA) is a U. S. Department of Education Title VI National Resource Center. It was established in 1993 to unite the efforts of two longstanding University programs–Russian and East European Studies,
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Our objective is twofold : first, help academic researchers and professionals of Gastronomy to meet, interact and exchange opinions on this artistic discipline from several perspectives: economics, econometrics, sociology, psychology, management, marketin
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This is one chapter of a much longer book, tentatively titled: How Great Cities are Fed: The Epicurious Economist and his Search for the Perfect Meal. The references cited in the footnotes are available on request; right now I have collected the reference
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Is economics an art? I address this old, but important, question empirically by examining the impact of rhetorical features of the titles of published economics articles on the ultimate success of these articles, as measured by their cumulative citation
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In today’s great God-versus-Science debate, both sides maneuver for the middle ground. Though he’s otherwise tolerant of nothing, George W. Bush calls for evolution and Intelligent Design to be taught together in the science classes of public schools. Mea
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William Easterly’s new book, “The White Man’s Burden: Why the West’s Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good,” suggests that the world’s official aid agencies — the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the U.N. — and nat
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Columbia Business School Follies has enjoyed the longest run of any production of a professional school of business located between 120th and 110th streets in New York City. CBS Follies traces its origin back to 1773 when Alexander Hamilton staged the fir
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