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10/07/08
Heather Grady, Norine Kennedy, Jill Kubit, Peter Poschen, Michael Renner, Sean Sweeney
Green Jobs
 
10/07/08
Leif Wenar
Shaking the Resource Curse
 
09/03/08
Thomas Pogge
Pharmaceutical Innovation and Essential Medicines
 
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Paul Collier
Voluntary Standards and the Resource Curse
 
08/19/08
Hans Rosling
Debunking Third World Myths
 

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Commentary: Free Trade with a Human Face
Coffee beans. Credit: Angela Sevin, http://flickr.com/photos/angela7/2228823597/ (Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic).
Coffee beans. Credit: Angela Sevin (CC).

By Jorge Castañeda

If the United States and Latin America can face up to the challenges of trade and immigration together, the next U.S. president may leave a weightier mark on the hemispheric relationship than any American leader in three generations. > More

Video: Green Jobs
Conference photo, Green Jobs, 9/30/08
The authors of a new ILO-UNEP report are hopeful that the labor intensity of green occupations across a diversity of sectors will create a net gain of jobs as workers transition from dirtier industries, thus helping to solve employment and poverty problems along with climate change. > More

Audio: Shaking the Resource Curse
Logging in Papua New Guinea. Greenpeace/Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert 2008 (Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.0 Generic).
Illegal timber is a resource curse commodity that also fuels climate change. Credit: Greenpeace / Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert 2008 (CC).

With Leif Wenar

When we talk about theft in international trade, we usually mean piracy, smuggling, or copyright infringement. Professor Leif Wenar, of King's College London, thinks we might be missing the forest for the trees. > More

Briefings: Law Goes Wild in Ecuador
How to Get Ahead...In the Galapagos. Photo by ARKNTINA, http://flickr.com/photos/arkntina/241070625/, (Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.0 Generic).
Galapagos lizard and iguana. Photo by RK & Tina (CC).

By Christina Madden

Ecuador is the first country to constitutionally enact ecosystem rights, expanding the mandate of environmental protection beyond personal injury and corporate license to pollute. > More

Commentary: The Difference Makers
cover image, The Difference Makers, by Sandra Waddock
Book review by William C. Frederick

Sandra Waddock's book The Difference Makers tells the stories of nearly two dozen innovators who pioneered the corporate responsibility movement over the past quarter century. > More

Innovations: The Founding of Transparency International
Corruption box. Photo by Michael Goodine, http://flickr.com/photos/watchsmart/1402363280/(Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic).
Transparency International modernized the fight against corruption. Photo by Michael Goodine (CC).

By Peter Eigen

Transparency International was founded to fight systemic corruption ranging from large procurement contracts that impede national development down to petty extortion on the local level. > More

Briefings: Northeast Puts on the Carbon Cap
Air Pollution! Viva Kyoto! Credit: Paul Falardeau, http://flickr.com/photos/21313845@N04/2332473286/ (Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 2.0 Generic).
Air pollution. Photo by Paul Falardeau (CC).

By Warren Wilczewski

The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative could give northeastern states an advantage over other states if a nationwide cap-and-trade system emerges. > More


 

 

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