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...that score, there is cause for optimism. From NGOs to CEOs, truckers to nurses, philanthropists to pharmaceutical companies and even Presidents and Prime Ministers, people are putting their talents, time and money to work in the fight against deadly diseases. Just check out Bill Gates...
...nations each year in Executive Education programs such as our Leaders in Development program and specialized programs dealing with trade, microfinance, corruption, and other issues affecting development. We have also conducted programs for individual countries, such as Mexico, India, Pakistan, China, South Africa, and several others and for international NGOs such as CARE...
...Iranian program is as impressive as it is comprehensive, competing with and sometimes bettering the coalition's endeavors. Businesses, front companies, religious groups, NGOs and aid for schools and universities are all part of the mix. Just as Washington backs Iraqi news outlets like al-Hurra television station, Tehran has funded broadcast and print outlets in Iraq. A 2003 Supreme National Security Council memo, smuggled out of Iran, suggests even the Iranian Red Crescent society, akin to the Red Cross, has coordinated its activities through the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps. The memo instructs officials that "the immediate needs...
...India's biggest problem, says Thakur, is that it lacks the manpower and financial resources to manage its historic riches. The ASI employs no qualified architects or conservationists, and monument care is split between a confusing cluster of local and national authorities, NGOs, religious orders, businesses and individuals. The Taj and its immediate environs come under six government agencies: the ministries of culture, environment and tourism, two city authorities and one state body. Thakur is careful not to condemn the ASI or the ministries, describing their staff as sincere professionals faced with an almost impossible task. But she also complains...
Activists had virtually no voice until the 1990s, when Beijing allowed nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) to register in large numbers. Today China has 280,000 NGOs, ranging from Ping-Pong clubs to cancer-survivor groups to economic think tanks. Consider them potential interest groups--what social scientists call a budding "civil society"--that will demand a say in government policy. The most active by far are environmentalists. They notched their first triumph in 1998 by blocking a logging scheme in Yunnan province that would have imperiled the rare golden monkey. Today they have graduated to representing people...