Word: sustainabilityã
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...most important step—getting the ball rolling on sustainability??has been taken. Regardless of which measures emerge as appropriate for making the Allston development environmentally sound, articulating the green point of view has encouraged a thorough ongoing consideration of these issues on the part of the planners. In addition to securing incalculable long-term environmental benefits—and significant energy savings for the University—Sustainable Allston’s successful talk with Summers is a tribute to the possibilities for input from a variety of perspectives...
Unfortunately, the HIPC initiative is flawed. To begin with, it measures “debt sustainability?? as the ratio of a country’s annual exports to its debt burden, a problematic metric which renders impoverished nations such as Haiti, Bangladesh, and Nigeria ineligible for assistance. If a country receives HIPC status it must then agree to strict macroeconomic conditions—such as limits on government spending—which are intended to keep deficits low and inflation down. In practice, however, these constraints often force indebted nations to impose user fees on health and education...