Word: centralization
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...large, longitudinal study, conducted in nearly 500 villages in the rural Osmanabad district of central India, analyzed the effectiveness of three methods of screening, including the standard pap smear and the newer test for human papillomavirus, or HPV, whose sexually transmitted high-risk strains are known to cause cervical cancer. (Read "Cancer and Insurance: Who Do You Call...
...Pashtun are a big, sprawling, insulated tribal people. There are some 40 million of them, but no one knows for sure because the central governments in Kabul and Islamabad have never felt safe enough to take a proper census. The Taliban are overwhelmingly Pashtun. The Pashtun have never had their own country, but they share a common language and identity...
...workforce - one of the world's most disparate and omnipresent - sends home. Some 10% of Bangladesh's total GDP, and 16% of Nepal's, comes from the remittances of pools of unskilled laborers working in Malaysia and the Gulf states. The economic impact of remittances is even higher in Central Asia, where entire villages send their able-bodied men to Russia. Tajikistan, for example, draws more than a third of its GDP from remittances, and the country's economy will suffer badly as jobs in Russia...
...Custom House over the next few years that will provide 10,000 new homes - some on the estate of Calado's - transform the two town centers, and create jobs and community facilities. In a new pink and green building nestled next to the concrete flyover launching traffic into central London, locals can view competing designs for Canning Town's next town center. The building also offers locals help with job searches, skills training and a weekly police surgery...
...other words, China will seek to spend more, and the U.S. will seek to spend less. Many economists are critical of the lack of specific policy solutions beyond these acknowledgements, saying the imbalances and the resulting distorting effects on currency exchange rates should have been a central agenda item at the G-20. "Unless and until surplus countries recognize that this cannot continue, no durable escape from the crisis will be achieved," Martin Wolf, author of Fixing Global Finance and the Financial Times' economics columnist, wrote in Wednesday's edition. "Understandably, but foolishly, they are unwilling...