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...whose citizens are in such dire states of poverty and suffering; we should earmark a much larger portion of the federal budget for developmental assistance and direct aid. And our foreign aid should neither be distributed based on a narrow foreign policy agenda, nor should it be directed at corrupt regimes...

Author: By Nicholas F.B. Smyth, | Title: Fight Suffering With Foreign Aid | 3/6/2003 | See Source »

...boost funding for Zero Hunger. Perhaps the most important - and most immediate - steps that Lula needs to take are pension and tax reform. Brazil has a millstone public bureaucracy: its salaries and pensions take more than 8% of the nation's $1 trillion gross domestic product. Reining in the corrupt pension system, simplifying Brazil's baroque tax code and combatting massive tax evasion could help Lula drop interest rates and free up at least $5 billion - more than half of Brazil's entire education budget - for projects like Zero Hunger. "This government's macroeconomic approach has been impeccable," says Paulo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War On Poverty | 3/2/2003 | See Source »

...party is the most corrupt." KWIK KIAN GIE, Indonesia's Development Minister, speaking of the PDIP, the nation's ruling party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 2/24/2003 | See Source »

...market was a hefty $2.4 billion last year. Yet the chances of China contributing to Star Group's bottom line any time soon seem faint. That's because China's authoritarian government, fearing that foreign-produced entertainment will usurp domestic competitors and that racy shows will corrupt the citizenry, severely limits the distribution of Western programming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Dose of Reality | 2/24/2003 | See Source »

...contrasts are there. Schools in the Texas-Miami orbit have athletes who never see class after frantic pushes to break 800 on the SAT, belong to utterly corrupt conferences (SEC football, anyone?) and basketball teams that don’t graduate half their players. The Ivy League does...

Author: By Martin S. Bell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Saved By the Bell: Despite Principles, Identity Crisis Lingers | 2/24/2003 | See Source »

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