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...have to correct a suggestion in the piece that Bono and Bob Geldof seek to represent Africans in their work as activists. They work in partnership with leading Africans but never suggest they represent Africans. Bono and Geldof represent themselves and others who want to see the world's richest governments keep the commitments they have made to Africa. These two have also argued that trade and investment will be more important than aid. But while business grows, African leaders at the International Monetary Fund conference in Tanzania in March made clear that development assistance is still needed...
...interdependences and exchanges around the world expand, multiply, and intensify, more and more problems require multilateral solutions. However, as more and more states have a crucial and invested say in these problems, multilateral consensus becomes more difficult to reach. The fact that 20 of the world’s richest economies were able to come to some kind of consensus when there appeared to be giant rifts speaks volumes and provides hope for the future...
...capital and labor of the American economy. I have no doubt that there are phenomenal profits to be made in the information industry. The relentless losses of newspapers are undoubtedly testament to their almost unique ineptitude in catering to the needs of the modern citizen or business. The richest man in New York—Michael Bloomberg—is not a Wall Streeter, but tellingly a man who sold news and information to Wall Street, despite the highly entrenched business media that already existed. The two 35-year-olds who run Google—the largest distributor of advertising...
...that has fought in Kashmir and more recently in Pakistan's tribal areas. Given the chilling similarities in the tactics deployed in the two attacks in Lahore, many analysts believe the same group could have been involved. All these militant organizations have a strong presence in the country's richest province, Punjab...
...Although Burma sits on some of the region's richest oil and natural-gas reserves, much of the country lacks electricity. That's because most of its potential fuel is exported to neighboring countries through lucrative contracts that benefit the ruling generals instead of being used at home. The Burmese regime's stated solution to the longrunning national blackout? Jatropha. Also known as "physic nut," the plant produces a green nut that is pressed and processed into a biofuel catching on in entrepreneurial green pockets of the world from Florida to Brazil to India, which has already earmarked 100 million...