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...Mexican migrants sent as much as $25 billion back to the country last year - and the total for all Latin American migrants was more than $60 billion, according to the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). At its annual conference this past weekend, IDB officials emphasized the need to encourage entrepreneurial ambition like that of Hernandez, either through bank credit or the creation of venture-capital funds focused on the poor. Its "Opportunity for the Majority" initiative also promotes getting land and other property titles to the region's have-nots in order to draw them out of the underground...
...government officials this week questioned Musharraf's judgment. Some have suggested it's the beginning of the end for the military man who seized power in a 1999 coup. "I think he has ruined himself," says Lieutenant General (Rtd) Hameed Gul, the former director general of Pakistani intelligence organization Inter Services Intelligence (ISI). "He's not going to be able to placate the forces he has unleashed...
Spinetta was well positioned to handle the labor battle. A career civil servant as opposed to a market-hardened manager, he joined the transport ministry in 1988. He was picked to head the state-owned domestic airline Air Inter in 1990. It was fully merged into Air France in 1997, when Spinetta was tapped to run the whole airline. He immediately appealed to employees to become partners in the company. "If we're all still here today, it's because Spinetta convinced workers that he was serious about negotiating and that the sacrifices we had to make were just," says...
...examples and modern events often seem tenuous. Still, Sen’s demonstration of how the concept of group identity can be manipulated has obvious applications to such subjects as Rwandan genocide and Al Qaeda terrorism. Sen offers his most profound observation when he addresses current attempts to decrease inter-group tensions in countries like Britain, where immigrant groups have not been able to fully assimilate.According to Sen, when governments support moderate voices within religious factions, they “bolster and strengthen the voice of religious authorities while downgrading the importance of nonreligious institutions and movements...
...with the region, but it "helps lay the groundwork for a new, more engaged approach to Latin America that tries to redress the tremendous gap between what Washington cares about and what Latin Americans worry about," says Michael Shifter, vice president for policy at the Washington-based think thank Inter-American Dialogue...