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...1960s, the Netherlands discovered huge deposits of natural gas in the North Sea. A windfall, right? Wrong. The discovery effectively hobbled Dutch industry, since any surge in revenue from natural resources - or from foreign aid, for that matter - tends to drive up exchange rates, making exports less internationally competitive. But thriving export industries, Collier argues, are precisely the reason for Asia's dramatic economic rise. They are also what Africa will need to develop in order to follow the same trajectory. Collier's idea seems to be sinking in: last month, the large international aid organization CARE announced that...
...Fifteen years ago, this regional arms race might not have seemed surprising. Many countries openly feared China, which advertised its military strength and staked claims to islands in the South China Sea. When China lobbed missiles near Taiwan in 1995 and '96, the White House sent aircraft carriers to the Taiwan Strait. But Beijing apparently recognized its mistakes and shifted course. Over the past decade, it has signed ASEAN's Treaty of Amity and Cooperation and pushed a collective free-trade deal with Southeast Asia. Focused together on terrorism, Washington and Beijing have built closer military links. Just as important...
...with riot shields and metal-tipped bamboo staves. Parliamentarian Tamina Dultana, vice president of Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League party, jumped out of her Land Cruiser and charged the police, shouting, "Do or die, we will go to the airport." Within seconds her pink headscarf was swallowed by a sea of uniformed officers. As party leaders swarmed out of their cars to shout slogans they were picked up one by one by apologetic police officers who politely allowed them to finish their impromptu press conferences first. "We were ordered to arrest all the party leaders," admitted one police officer after...
...ecovillages were just isolated, survivalist lifeboats amid a sea of rising temperatures--the Branch Davidian compounds of the green movement--they wouldn't mean much. But Walker, a veteran community organizer and activist, is determined to spread the word. She has forged links with Ithaca College and the surrounding area, turning EVI into a living laboratory. At nearby Cornell University, EVI residents teach courses on environmental collectives, and villagers have become accustomed to camera-toting visitors peeking through unlocked front doors...
Here's a mental exercise for you: picture a tropical paradise lost in an endless expanse of cerulean ocean. Glossy palm fronds twist gently in the temperate wind, as islanders harvest coconuts along the immaculate powder-white beaches. Leathery sea turtles bob lazily off shore and the light cacophony of birdsong accents the ambient sound of wind and waves...