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One Bed, Different Dreams
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James Farrer
The Japanese media consensus is that despite the organizational and aesthetic success of the Beijing Games, they are unlikely to produce the positive social and political benefits for China that were achieved by the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. Meanwhile, most Japanese are also skeptical whether Tokyo can muster comparable vitality for its 2016 Olympic bid.
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The Perfect Storm of a Global Recession
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Nouriel Roubini
The probability is growing that the global economy--not just the United States--will experience a serious recession.
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Humanitarian Aid Politicized
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Burmese monks protest the slow response
to Cyclone Nargis outside the UN
headquarters. Photo by Sean Ng (CC). |
Jon Templeman
Humanitarian aid is often viewed as a political commodity, no matter how well intentioned the donors may be. As swelling urban centers make disasters deadlier, this poses a crucial policy problem for international relief and diplomacy.
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Fuel Costs Clip Airline Wings
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Matthew Hennessey
The rising price of jet fuel has the global airline industry struggling to cut costs and stay aloft, but it also incentivizes the development of alternative power sources and experimental planes.
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| POLICY LIBRARY |
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Co-production: A Manifesto for Growing the Core Economy
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This paper from the New Economics Foundation offers an explanation of co-production, or a means of building community based on a sense of shared responsibility and mutual support. The point of co-production, according to the paper, is to encourage the use of human skills and experience to help deliver public or voluntary service.
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Financing the Global Climate Change Response
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This South Centre Analytical Note stresses that the provision of financing from developed countries to developing countries is required under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. Parties to the Convention could directly operate the Convention's financial mechanism by setting up a Climate Change Fund.
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