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Sarah Burd-Sharps,
Kristen Lewis
American Human Development Project
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01/05/09
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Based on the UNDP Human Development Index model, Sarah Burd-Sharps and Kristen Lewis examine American well-being, revealing huge disparities in the health, education, and living standards of different groups across the nation.
While free-trade ideas enjoy relatively low levels of public support, those views are rarely reflected in the opinion pages of America's three most important newspapers.
The Senate's rejection of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty has sent the wrong message about the U.S. role in promoting a more secure approach to the nuclear arms race, undermining diplomatic efforts to secure global cooperation on the relationship of nuclear arsenals to world peace and security.
Christian Barry and Pablo Gilabert review David Miller's book National Responsibility and Global Justice, arguing that Miller's general criticisms of egalitarianism are unconvincing. The authors point out various respects in which global egalitarian doctrines provide more plausible moral guidance than Miller's conception of global justice.
Ethanol production in Brazil is an example of conventional cost-and-benefit analysis that disregards important environmental considerations, casting doubt on the social viability of ethanol as a substitute for gasoline in Brazil.
Peter Eigen
Innovations: Technology, Governance, Globalization
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10/01/08
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Transparency International founder Peter Eigen describes the organization's origin and the growing techniques and coalitions for combating corruption globally and locally.
Robert Pollin,
James Heintz
Center for American Progress,
Political Economy Research Institute (PERI), University of Massachusetts Amherst
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09/15/08
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This report outlines a green recovery program to strengthen the U.S. economy over the next two years and leave it in a better position for sustainable prosperity, focusing on expanded job opportunities, stabilizing the price of oil, and making significant strides toward fighting global warming and building a green, low-carbon economy.
Global Policy Forum
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09/15/08
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This paper examines how the media facilitates social change in democratic countries, how it catalyzes revolution in authoritarian nations, and ways in which the media (in democratic countries) can act to undermine social movements.
Sanjay Reddy
Global Policy Forum
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09/15/08
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The World Bank's new poverty estimates are no more accurate than before, says Sanjay Reddy. They are still set far too low to cover the basic necessities required for nutrition and a minimally decent life.
This article critiques the arguments against global egalitarianism put forth by critics who are egalitarian, pointing toward ways in which egalitarian doctrines must be further strengthened if they are to offer a convincing response to questions of international ethics and global justice.
In this paper, the author sketches five arguments that support the position that businesses have a moral responsibility to move toward sustainability.
In order for a constructively postmodern culture to emerge in China or in other parts of the world, we need what can be called a Second Enlightenment that will support modernization without environmental harm, increased inequality, and loss of faith.
This paper suggests that developing nations should give the Open Source model serious consideration in the search for innovative cures for neglected diseases.
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.
New Economics Foundation
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07/24/08
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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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