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...TOKYO, 2001 New rules will go into effect requiring GM foods to be labeled as such and tested for safety--although the government is also promoting the export of Japanese GM expertise and technology to Third-World nations. Meanwhile, a small anti-GM movement is growing stronger...
...cost of writing them off. Rather it's that the borrowing countries are afflicted with nearly untreatable cases of what economists call "debt overhang," a fiscal disease by which loan repayments inhibit every sort of national economic activity. That makes the markets much less attractive to export-hungry U.S. companies. Debt relief, which at first blush looks like charity, is mostly a way to stimulate growth...
...prices they charge in the U.S. - but even then, a year of cocktail treatments would still cost about four times the per capita income of the worst-hit countries. Asking Africa to increase its debt burden to finance the purchases may quite simply be untenable - indeed, the U.S. Export-Import bank, which is financing the program, has had to go into negotiations with the IMF because a number of the would-be recipient countries are already at their debt ceiling. The Clinton White House is fond of win-win scenarios, in which there's a happy confluence between corporations making...
Does anyone have any thoughts about export policy, how much things like the North American Free Trade Agreement have helped small businesses...
...South Africa - and, indeed, the prohibitive distance to South Africa for fans from the soccer power centers in North and West Africa - also functioned as a deterrent. Not surprisingly, African soccer administrators are taking the result as a vote of no confidence in a continent that continues to export some of the world's finest players to wealthy European teams. Still, FIFA delegates continued to hold out the promise of 2010, although it's hard to see what might change in South Africa over the next four years to make soccer's disproportionately European powers-that-be more amenable. Given...