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...gradually abandoned comprehensive health care and a public-health perspective for focused attention on selective diseases," Prime Minister Singh said at the April 2005 launch of the National Rural Health Mission. "We have grievously erred in the design of many of our health programs. We have created a delivery model that fragments resources and dissipates energies. Most importantly we have paid inadequate attention to the public-health issues and the possibilities of social and preventive medicine...
...highs, competition for untapped offshore petroleum in West Africa could spark conflict, with Chinese and Western firms jockeying to build new infrastructure, control ports and woo political leaders. Through its training programs for African technocrats, many of whom return from China amazed, Beijing could indeed promote its authoritarian development model to a continent where democracy still has shallow roots...
...mines with the government for decades as a 50-50 partnership called Debswana. Now De Beers has deepened that cooperation by moving its worldwide diamond-sorting and -valuing operation from London to Botswana's capital, Gaborone--a move it predicts will create 3,000 jobs and establish a model for other miners in Africa...
...familiar with the saga of Sierra Leone's conflict diamonds, is how the building is also evidence of what the country can do for diamonds. "The way people feel about diamonds has to be the way they think about our company," says Penny. "We have to be a role model. We want to make a profit. To do that, we have to behave in a way that makes a contribution to the country. It's benign self-interest...
...Internet as a tool in political organizing has served the Democratic Party well, allowing it to surpass the Republicans in fundraising for the first time in recent history and giving candidates sophisticated tools with which to build grassroots organizations. While Republicans have tried to copy the online organizing model, they haven’t been nearly as successful. In fact, Obama has used his Web-driven fundraising apparatus to bring in more campaign funds than all of the candidates for the Republican nomination combined...