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...offer increased trade access to African products. That includes, painfully, reducing their own agricultural subsidies - not raising them, as the U.S. has done. Developed countries' financial support for their own farm products is today equal to sub-Saharan Africa's combined economic output. It is folly, as well as unfair, for the developed North to protect its inefficient industries at the expense of the more competitive industries of the South. And to encourage more responsible and accountable government, the G-8 should also insist that their companies operating in Africa, particularly in the oil sector, maintain high standards of transparency...
...first place. In the 1990s, Mahathir's administration showered huge government contracts and favorable loans on a select few businessmen. The policy, which was designed to create a group of model entrepreneurs among the country's majority ethnic Malays, was criticized at home and abroad as opaque, unfair, hugely wasteful and largely ineffective. The 1997 crisis hit Mahathir's handpicked favorites particularly hard; their inefficiently run and deeply indebted companies such as Halim Saad's Renong, a government-controlled conglomerate, and Yahaya Ahmad's DRB-Hicom needed huge government bailouts just to stay afloat...
...website was created last June by the nation's five largest airlines (American, United, Delta, Northwest and Continental), and is today the third biggest player in the $20 billion-a-year online travel market. Competing websites claim Orbitz is using unfair practices to drive customers to those five airlines and undercut competitors, online and in the air. Last month Congress held what is expected to be the first of several hearings looking into Orbitz's behavior, and the departments of Transportation and Justice are officially examining the site for possible antitrust violations. Orbitz executives retort that their site has energized...
...Harvard students had suffered from what some feel is unfair attention...
...come out of the 1998-1999 school year was the increase in student activism on a number of issues. The Living Wage Campaign agitated for higher wages for Harvard employees, the Coalition Against Sexual Violence condemned the College’s policies concerning sexual assault as insufficient and unfair, and Students Against Sweatshops protested Harvard’s use of factories with poor labor conditions in the production of apparel with the Harvard name. In March 1999, these three groups came together for a “Rally for Justice.” Various other incidents of student protest have...