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...expand his feedlot, invest in a nearby ethanol plant and buy gizmos that track his fertilizer and pesticide use and the food and drug intake of every cow. It's no accident that agriculture's productivity growth consistently outpaces the rest of the economy--or that farms with million-dollar revenues are the fastest-growing agricultural sector. "We started with a corn knife and a scoop shovel, and look what's happened," he chuckles...
...that relatively small surcharge hardly seems sufficient to overcome the seductive pull of casinos and their multimillion-dollar marketing budgets. "The gambling industry is so big," says Poon Yan-chi, director of the Macau center where Tan delivers his PowerPoint presentations on the evils of gambling. "It's like David and Goliath." David sometimes wins. But that...
...high-level visits reflect India's new importance. Its economy is now a trillion-dollar heavyweight growing at 9% a year. On Oct. 29, its main stock index went through 20,000 for the first time, boosted by $18 billion in foreign funds this year and up almost 40% since January. Investors from around the world want a piece of the action...
...light of this, we welcome Shell’s multimillion-dollar donation to Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government (KSG). Staggered over five years and renewable for five more, the $3.75 million gift will be administered by the KSG but will hopefully fund and bring together research on energy policy in disciplines across the university. We hope this donation will prompt Harvard to become the leader in energy research that it can and should...
...donation is also a milestone for the environmental movement, which is forcing multibillion dollar companies to confront an unpleasant reality from the ground-up. The very source of KSG’s latest donation, Shell, illustrates the transformation of fossil fuel behemoths into supporters of future green energy research. Shell is by no means alone: Other giants like Exxon-Mobil and British Petroleum (BP) have also focused on research on more efficient energy sources and better policies. In fact, for several years now, BP has been cleverly marketing itself as “Beyond Petroleum...