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Early in his remarks, according to the transcript, Summers cited a Harvard School of Public Health study revealing that in one Native American community in South Dakota, life expectancy is lower than in Bangladesh. Persistent poverty among indigenous communities in the United States, he said, is “a major area of concern.” Summers noted that he and his colleagues in the Clinton administration’s Treasury Department “worked hard and, I think, with some success,” to make loans more readily available to Native American communities...
...Native American community in South Dakota where life expectancy was half—half—of what it was in the highest life expectancy community in our country. That life expectancy in that community was a decade, if not actually two decades, lower than life expectancy in Bangladesh. And that is not as it should be in the United States. If one looks at the persistence of poverty in our country, one finds in looking—and this is the kind of thing that we economists have now studied in a fair amount of detail—that...
This is terrifying news for the 300,000 or so souls who live in the Maldives, but it could also spell disaster for people living on or near the sea everywhere--in Venice, Rio de Janeiro, Tokyo, New York City, the Nile delta in Egypt, the Ganges delta in Bangladesh or the Mississippi delta on the U.S. Gulf Coast. In all, perhaps 3 billion people, half the world's population, live within a hundred miles of the sea. And at least 100 million of them occupy low-lying deltas that, like the Maldives, rise not much more than...
...there has been a general rapprochement between New Delhi and Beijing since the 1980s, questions over the border continue to be an irritant. And in the future, the two nations' rapacious demand for energy will almost certainly involve them in contests for influence in such resource-rich states as Bangladesh and Burma...
Thirty years of reporting has allowed Chanda to witness historic events such as the arrival of North Vietnamese tanks at Saigon’s presidential palace and the 1971 Bangladesh independence movement, recounted Chanda, who currently works at Yale...