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• Developing vs. Developed Nations — A Climate Negotations Dilemma

  
  CleanTechies Blog - CleanTechies.com — Authority: 502
  The upcoming climate negotiations in Copenhagen have highlighted an interesting dilemma.  Nations worldwide are trying to shirk their responsibilities around emissions and their economies. So called “developed” nations like the U.S., U.K., and Australia are having a difficult political time getting ...
  8 hours ago

• New journal supplements provide useful resource for tackling disease in the developing world

  
  BioMed Central — Authority: 464
  We have published several supplements aimed at improving health in developing countries over the past month. Last week, a collection of articles published in BMC Public Health concluded that money available to treat HIV/AIDS is sufficient to end the epidemic globally, but only if we act immediately to control the ...
  4 days ago

• Could denying bedroom privileges save the planet?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  There will be a record number of side events at the United Nations-sponsored climate talks in Copenhagen next month, but one woman’s one-woman show could give the delegates, most of whom will be men, the incentive they really need to agree a new global warming treaty. In “ The Boycott “, Kathryn Blume plays ...
  5 days ago

• Rahul Bose slams developed nations for climate change

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  New Delhi, Nov 22 (IANS) Bollywood actor-activist Rahul Bose has slammed developed countries for preaching to developing nations to reduce “the use of energy sources” in order to cut down on “greenhouse gases (GHG) and carbon emissions” without practising the same.“Developed nations have enjoyed unbridled ...
  6 days ago

• Think $5,000 Will Do It?

  
  The Zach Bell Show — Authority: 104
  Have you ever heard of KIVA ?  I only just stumbled upon it a few moments ago and I don’t think I’ve ever felt this enthused about an online project in ages.  I’m not sure if I ever have felt this optimistic and happy about anything I’ve seen online ever. The worst part of this is that I’m so excited ...
  6 days ago

• Leaders meet to elect EU president

  
  Survival News Network — Authority: 143
  Experts have said the president should be a technocrat who can provide unity and build consensus among the EU’s main institutions – the council of nations for the 27 member states, the European Commission and the European parliament.Glyn Ford, a former Labour MEP, told Al Jazeera that building a political presence ...
  1 week ago

• Opportunities in microinsurance

  
  www.Artemis.bm — Authority: 130
  We’ve been big supporters (read our previous coverage here ) of the various weather and catastrophe related microinsurance programs being piloted around the world over the last few years. While not perfect, these schemes are helping to get much needed cover to business people in developing countries to help them ...
  1 week ago

• Leaders meet to elect EU president

  
  The Gates of Hell — Authority: 133
  Experts have said the president should be a technocrat who can provide unity and build consensus among the EU’s main institutions – the council of nations for the 27 member states, the European Commission and the European parliament. Glyn Ford, a former Labour MEP, told Al Jazeera that building a political ...
  1 week ago

• The Top 10 Mobile Applications of 2012

  
  Family Learning Center — Authority: 160
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• Person-to-person micro-lending website

  
  Greenme: Sustainable Living Blog — Authority: 128
  Canadians Matt and Jessica Flannery have set up the world’s first person-to-person micro-lending non-profit website, Kiva.org, to help low-income entrepreneurs in the developing world, thereby fighting global poverty. On the Kiva.org website potential lenders can browse through profiles of low-income entrepreneurs ...
  1 week ago

• Mobilizing the Web for the Developing World: Inside the World Wide Web Foundation with CEO Steve Bratt, Part 2

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 701
  IT , Web , Development Wade Roush wrote: Yesterday we ran the first part of our interview with Steve Bratt, the CEO of the new World Wide Web Foundation , which was unveiled on November 15 by Web inventor Tim-Berners-Lee. The foundation aims to empower people in developing regions to access ...
  1 week ago

• Open access and the developing world - read the latest

  
  BioMed Central — Authority: 464
  As part of Open Access Week last month, Walter H. Curioso, M.D., M.P.H, Research Professor at Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, talks about his views of open access and how it can help in developing countries .  In other open access news, Denise Nicholson recently published her Tips for Developing Countries ...
  1 week ago

• Equatel Brings Text Messaging Payphones to the Developing World

  
  MobileBehavior — Authority: 126
  Phone sharing is a cultural norm for many in India and certain African countries, places where individual ownership is out of the question and network reception is weak. Jan Chipchase has discussed the kiosks that spring up with little more than a mobile phone and a sign with call rates. In hopes of standardizing ...
  1 week ago

• Fat Map

  
  Carsons Post — Authority: 493
  In this ‘fat map,’ nations grow or shrink depending on how much the average person eats. It’s a map of starvation and gluttony. Posted in Developing World, Health
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• Research highlights need to address hemophilia in developing wor...

  
  Business Finance & Economy - business.marc8.com — Authority: 166
  (North Carolina State University) When modern medicine finds a way to treat a medical condition, people often think that the problem is solved. But we also have to find ways to get that treatment into the hands of those who need it. For example, new research shows that much more needs to be done to help get existing ...
  1 week ago

• APEC leaders dilute carbon targets

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is jointly hosting a climate change breakfast on the sidelines of APEC in Singapore, though the Pacific rim leaders have watered down climate change targets in their final statement. Climate change has been the big new issue on the usually trade-centred agenda of the Asia Pacific Economic ...
  2 weeks ago

• A rural corner of India gets a slice of the outsourcinig boom

  
  Legal Ruralism — Authority: 132
  The headline from todays New York Times is "Rural India Gets Chance at Piece of Jobs Boom," and in it Lydia Polgreen tells of an experiment by some Indian entrepreneurs to give remote parts of the country an opportunity to share in the economic boom that has been largely limited to urban areas. The company, Rural ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Untapped Energy Riches of Uzbekistan

  
  The Lay Scientist — Authority: 541
  While many Western investors remain fixated on somehow acquiring a slice of Turkmenistan’s natural gas riches, despite a recent scandal over the country’s actual reserves, there is another country further east whose energy and mineralogical reserves have been overlooked – Uzbekistan. While a number of factors ...
  2 weeks ago

• Poor nutrition stunting growth

  
  Health Fitness & Beauty - health-fitness.marc8.com — Authority: 160
  Poor nutrition is still causing major problems in the developing world - despite some progress being made.
  2 weeks ago

• Bhopal Disaster Site Opened for Publicity Stunt

  
  The Lay Scientist — Authority: 541
  A little under 25 years ago, before midnight on December 2nd 1984, a major venting of lethal methyl isocyanate occurred at the Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India. Thousands were killed, and toxic waste continues to contaminate the local water supply to this day. To mark the anniversary and to "dispel ...
  2 weeks ago

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