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While donations and divestments directly impact the situation on the ground, in the end these are no more than reactive, stop-gap measures. Monetary aid does provide real help to those in need, and provide it faster than the speed of political change, but alone can only mitigate effects and has difficulty reaching the root causes of genocide. Wouldn’t it be better if such efforts were never necessary at all? If genocide prevention were the norm, rather than the exception? This is the ambitious thought behind HDAG’s newest initiative...
...swapped jobs with Regan in February, the Administration began taking a more active role. Less than a month after the Plaza Hotel meeting, Baker unveiled yet another ambitious blueprint for repairing the global economy, this time a plan to defuse the Third World debt bomb. Baker contended that previous stop-gap efforts to solve the problem relied too much on austerity measures that prevented developing countries from rebuilding their economies. Speaking to a conference of 9,000 moneymen in the South Korean capital of Seoul, Baker called for a three-year lending increase of $29 billion, mostly from commercial banks...
...study also revealed that while a new vaccine represents a temporary stop-gap measure, in the long-term, heavy use of antibiotics will continue to decrease their effectiveness...
Public testimony stretched for three hours at last night’s packed meeting. Parents and teachers blasted the superintendent’s proposal as a stop-gap measure that would threaten low-performing students in neighborhood schools...
...likely stall deliberation over potentially problematic candidates until they are back in the driver's seat in January. Appropriations will take on critical weight as the end of the year deadline approaches; Congress was supposed to have approved spending bills by October 1st, and will be forced to use stop-gap measures if funding isn't in place by the end of their session...