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...fiscal spending and slash interest rates to support growth and unfreeze financial markets. Now, as an economic recovery emerges, governments are hoping for another coordinated effort to exit from their massive stimulus plans, including near-zero interest rates. That intention was clearly laid out during the September G-20 summit in Pittsburgh, Pa. The leaders of the world's 20 most influential economies pledged to "withdraw our extraordinary policy support in a cooperative and coordinated...
...cities and environmental degradation, but also that the brunt of tragedy is borne by poor countries least equipped to deal with such misfortune. In 2008, 98% of natural disaster - related fatalities occurred in Asia, according to the Worldwatch Institute, a Washington-based research group. At a World Health Organization summit last month, health ministers from Southeast Asia announced that from 1998 to 2009, 750,000 people had perished from natural disasters in their region alone...
ROBERT BARNETT, an expert on Tibet based at New York's Columbia University, blasting the Obama Administration for yielding to pressure to postpone a planned meeting between the President and the Dalai Lama until after Obama's November summit with Chinese President Hu Jintao...
...Cold War. But despite the bonhomie and talk of common interests, the neighbors are now most aligned by the bottom line. After signing $3.5 billion in deals and approving a framework for the export of a huge quantity of Russian natural gas to China during an Oct. 12-14 summit, the two countries have shown that what links them closest is the almighty deal...
...pricey plastic surgeon in order to tell a more human side of the energy story. TIME talked to Little about how fossil fuels saturate our lives and why taking personal responsibility is the key to pulling out of this mess. (See video from the American Governors' Global Climate Summit...