Policymakers have two main concerns when it comes to ethanol: the effect of demand on food prices, and the environmental benefits. While families were sharing corn at barbecues this summer, both issues perked up ears across the globe.
Thomas Pogge explains his proposal for dealing with the thorny intersection of public health, intellectual property rights, and poverty. The patent system doesn't work as well for medicines as it does for consumer electronics, he says.
Extreme poverty is almost synonymous with isolation, especially rural isolation. Mobile phones and wireless Internet will prove to be the most transformative economic development technologies of our time.
There are those who argue that basic human rights are bestowed by some form of deity or god. But others are making the case that sometimes basic human rights are denied to the deities themselves, in this case child goddesses. In Nepal, the young girls who are worshiped as living goddesses are now awarded basic human rights by the state.
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