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Defining Environmental Migrants
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Marie O'Reilly
As the world attempts to solve the growth in climate migrants and refugees, accurate and legally justifiable definitions will be a crucial first step.
 
No Time to Put Climate Science on Ice
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Achim Steiner
Let us put aside the myth that the science of climate change is holed below the water line and sinking fast on a sea of falsehoods. Overwhelming evidence now indicates that greenhouse-gas emissions need to peak within the decade.
 
 
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Japan's Slow-Motion Crisis
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Maruishi Cycle, Hokkaido. CREDIT:
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Kenneth Rogoff
Japan's ability to trudge on in the face of huge adversity is admirable, but the risks of crisis ahead are surely greater than bond markets seem to recognize.
 
Confronting Culture in Congo
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Saleem H. Ali
It is high time the international community confront the elephant in the room when talking about Congo and violence against women worldwide -- culture.
 
 
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Behavioral Economics and Climate Change Policy
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"Irrational" patterns of behavior are central to human decision-making and should be the starting point for effective economic policies.
 
Rethinking Macroeconomic Policy
The Great Moderation lulled macroeconomists and policymakers alike in the belief that we knew how to conduct macroeconomic policy. The crisis clearly forces us to question that assessment. This IMF Staff Position Note takes a tentative first pass at the contours of a new macroeconomic policy framework.
 
 

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Public Procurement with a Conscience
Robert Senser
Although efforts to adopt decent labor standards through free trade agreements are stymied on the international level, a network of activists are working to make ethical procurement a government priority in the United States.
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  A Permaculture Strategy for Port-au-Prince
Geoff Lawton, Evan O'Neil
Geoff Lawton of the Permaculture Research Institute discusses how to strategize and deploy sustainable local food production across Haiti as part of earthquake relief and long-term recovery.
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Xenophobia Tests National Legitimacy

Rush for Patents May Hinder Transfer of New Climate-related Technologies

Basic Income Grants Alleviate Poverty in Namibia

Defining Environmental Migrants

No Time to Put Climate Science on Ice

The Right to Move Conference Papers

Rethinking Poverty Reduction

Top Five Sociopolitical Business Risks for 2010

Defining a Right to Move?

How to Keep a New Year's Resolution


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Toyota Is a Symptom of Japan's Decline

Japan's Slow-Motion Crisis

Confronting Culture in Congo

The Future of Capitalism and the Dangers of Returning to Business as Usual

The Evolution of Revolution

The New Golden Age

Haiti and the Rules of Generosity

Euroland Crucified Upon Its Own Cross of Gold

Obama's Grade on Trade: B

Immigration Administration Control in Japan


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Agribusiness and the Right To Food

Behavioral Economics and Climate Change Policy

Rethinking Macroeconomic Policy

21 Hours

Confronting the Long Crisis of Globalization

ACDC 2010 Call for Papers

Growth Isn't Possible

Freedom to Innovate: Biotechnology in Africa's Development

Global Survey of Environmental, Social and Governance Policies

Estimating U.S. Government Subsidies to Energy Sources: 2002–2008

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