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...CCSR report thus explored whether to revise the University’s previous policy, which did “not extend to investment vehicles over which the University does not exercise direct control over composition and investment decisions...
...only change regarding this standing policy was the adoption of the ACSR’s recommendation to keep third-party fund managers apprised of Harvard’s direct divestment decisions...
...model would have established a much broader set of criteria for evaluating direct divestment decisions than is currently in place. According to the CCSR report, HDAG’s model, which was adopted from a nationwide divestment activist organization, would extend divestment to as many as “a few dozen” companies...
...eliminating all its nuclear materials-in a time frame left ominously unspecified in the agreement-the North is to receive further economic aid (including nearly one million tons of additional fuel oil or its equivalent to power its electricity grid) as well as a long-sought diplomatic concession: direct negotiations with Washington that could eventually lead, according to the agreement, to normalization of ties between the U.S. and North Korea. As a signal to Pyongyang that the Bush Administration means what it says about establishing diplomatic ties, Hill in a June 22 press conference in Seoul said Secretary of State...
...this good cheer, it's worth keeping a sense of proportion. The World Bank says just 3% of global foreign direct investment flowed to sub-Saharan Africa in 2005. And most of the money has gone to only a handful of resource-rich countries like South Africa, Nigeria and Angola. Meanwhile, much of the continent remains desperately underdeveloped: only 22% of African households have access to electricity. That leaves plenty of opportunity for businesses to profit as the continent attempts to catch up. In recent years, for example, the number of mobile-phone subscribers in Africa has soared by over...