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...adds about $1 trillion a year in benefits to the U.S. economy. Even the offshoring of white-collar jobs, despite the hardship it brings for laid-off workers, is a net gain for developed nations like the U.S. and Japan, as well as for the country where the jobs land. Every dollar of spending that U.S. companies transfer to India creates $1.46 in new wealth, according to McKinsey & Company, a management consultancy...
...need a national truth and reconciliation process," says Norbert Mao, chairman of Gulu district, one of the Ugandan towns hardest hit by the conflict. In Gulu, over 70% of displaced people still have not been able to leave the camps due to fears of safety and lack of land - though many are in settlements within 20 km of their home. "It's a situation where many feel that they are in limbo... and there are mixed feelings about whether the LRA leadership should be tried by traditional justice," says Harry Leefe, head of the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR's office...
...benefits of giving up armed struggle. With no end in sight to the growth of Israelis settlements and security barriers in the occupied West Bank, most Palestinians have lost faith in the ability of Fatah's notoriously corrupt leadership to lead them to the promised land of a Palestinian state, and have instead put their trust in Fatah's rival, the puritanical militants of Hamas...
Though both players will begin Nashville’s training camp in September unsure of where they will begin in the player development system, the AHL Milwaukee Admirals seem like the most likely place where both will land come the start of the regular season...
...Romania that I saw was completely different from the Romania my parents saw. They saw a land full of poverty—they saw the Romania I had figured...