National Perspectives: How Solid a Line Against Development?
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The future of the Urban Development Boundary is up for grabs in Miami-Dade County as farmers and environmentalists face off about new construction.
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The west is stripping the developing world of its talent. The pressures of ageing populations and the need to be at the frontier of technological change has meant skilled labour is in short supply, so raiding
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Urbanisation and population growth are threatening the goal of improving water access, UN bodies warn.
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LONDON, Jan 6 (IPS) - Scientists must move to the centre of government   decision-making on development issues, says a report presented  to the  United Nations Thursday.
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Science & environment: . 'Ignorance, need and greed' depleting soil . Experts warn competition will lead to conflict.
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Filmmakers using relatively cheap digital technology throw a harsh light on the plight faced by indigenous societies trying to survive the intrusion of a modern world. Jason Silverman reports from New York.
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LISBON, Dec 6  (IPS) - On the eve of the second Africa-European Union  summit, there is broad agreement on the need to defend human  rights, above all else. But academics, analysts and activists  from both continents harbour serious doubts that this noble aim  will find root in reality.
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Â· Millennium goals within reach for much of worldÂ· Unsafe water undermines educational reforms
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Secretary of State Colin Powell calls it the most promising development in foreign assistance in decades. That is quite a claim for a program that has yet to disburse its first dollar. But it is clear that President Bush's Millennium Challenge Account, first proposed 2 1/2 years ago, represents a fresh approach to helping countries overcome economic backwardness.
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By Nisha Sabanayagam; Ranjeetha Pakiam; Minderjeet Kaur; Teresa Yong;  KUALA LUMPUR: Good laws, bad implementation. That's what NGOs think of the government's efforts in protecting the environment.
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Indigenous issues are receiving more political attention worldwide, but many observers say most indigenous people remain mired in poverty. Dwindling land remains a chief cause, experts say.
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While developing nations China, Brazil and India grow at break-neck pace with their burgeoning industry and farming, industrialized countries want them
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BERLIN, Nov 26 (IPS) - Information technology must be used to promote  development, but experts are less clear just how.
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Sir - i refer to the article'Rights to River Access' (Country & Farming, January 9). Paddy Rooney's point about flouting the law is hardly an argument for changing it.
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Is there something new that open source development methods and values can bring to the economy? How about something old?  I think the answer may come from the developing world, where pre-industrial methods and values persist and offer some helpful models and lessons for a networked world that's less post-industrial than industrial in a new and less impersonal way. This began to become apparent to me a few years ago I had a Socratic exchange with a Nigerian pastor named Sayo, whom I was lucky to find sitting next to me on a long airplane trip.
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BRUSSELS, Aug 27 (IPS) - The European Union's humanitarian aid policy  does not draw a sufficiently clear distinction between responses  to emergencies and longer-term development assistance, a new  report has concluded.
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President Chen Shui-bian&#39;s ( é³æ°´æ ) Double Ten National Day speech has received mixed reviews at home and abroad. In a diverse international community and a complex domestic environment, it is difficult