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...meeting was held, the Doha "development" round is intended to thrash out new trade arrangements for agriculture, with a specific focus on reducing the rich world's subsidies and opening Western markets to the developing world's producers. In return, the vision goes, the developing world will allow more access to its service industries, such as insurance and banking...
...summit's only issue. For many poor countries the biggest question is how to help narrow the ?digital gap? between rich countries and poor ones. According to the International Telecommunication Union, the 15 percent of the world population that lives in the industrialized world enjoy five times better access to fixed-line and mobile phone services, nine times better access to Internet services, and own 13 times more personal computers than the 85 percent living in poor and middle-ranking countries. The Geneva meeting set a goal of bringing half the world's population online by 2015; the Tunis meeting...
...Despite the gap between rich and poor countries, the developing world has nonetheless seen a boom in access to some technologies over the past decade. In Africa, mobile phone subscriptions has risen from 15 million in 2000 to more than 80 million in 2004. Mobile phone coverage now extends from the continent's capitals to remote towns in such war-ravaged countries such as the Democratic Republic of Congo. But access to the Internet lags far behind. According to the UN Conference on Trade and Development, just 3.1% of Africans have access to the Internet, and less than...
...Kingdom, Canada, and India—have deemed this drug safe for over-the-counter sales. There is also an important distinction to be made: Plan B is not abortion; the FDA itself designated Plan B as contraception. According to Planned Parenthood, “Experts estimate that wider access to emergency contraception could prevent up to 1.7 million unintended pregnancies a year—and 800,000 abortions.” In other words, if Plan C(ontraceptive) fails, and women cannot access Plan B, many will be forced into Plan A(bortion). Unfortunately, this partisan...
...Association (PBHA), Harvard’s umbrella organization for public service, elected Alicia Rodriguez ’07 as its next president at a meeting last night in the PBHA Parlor Room. Rodriguez, who is currently PBHA secretary, ran on a platform of developing student leadership, increasing recruitment, improving access to Harvard resources, and tightening focus within PBHA’s 77 community service programs. “It’s important to make sure we don’t let in so many programs that the programs we do have cannot make the best of the resources...