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Ramesh Jaura , IPS Inter Press Service - Development
TOYAKO, Japan, Jul 8 (IPS) - The Group of Eight (G8) will remain an exclusive club of major industrial nations at least for a year. Whether the next year's summit in Italy will decide on its expansion -- to include Brazil, China, India, Mexico and South Africa -- is an open...
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Jul 08, 2008
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Claudia Ciobanu , IPS Inter Press Service - Development
BUCHAREST, Jul 8 (IPS) - Romanian environmentalists have launched a campaign to speed up creation of a national agency for protected areas (ANAP), which the government has been postponing since 2005. In the absence of a proper administrative body, valuable natural sites around the country, including the last remaining intact forest...
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Jul 08, 2008
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Tarjei Kidd Olsen , IPS Inter Press Service - Development
OSLO, Jul 8 (IPS) - Norway wants to integrate diasporas into development work -- and tap into the huge sums of cash that they send back home -- with a new pilot project that seeks to beef up development efforts in Pakistan....
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Jul 08, 2008
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Andrew Nette , IPS Inter Press Service - Development
PHNOM PENH, Jul 8 (IPS) - After a complicated and sometimes fraught process of establishment lasting over two years, the international tribunal into the crimes committed by the Khmer Rouge may commence trials as early as September....
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Jul 08, 2008
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Stephen Leahy , IPS Inter Press Service - Development
FORT LAUDERDALE, U.S., Jul 8 (IPS) - Fisheries catches in tropical island nations may be as much as 17 times higher than officially reported, according to a new study released Tuesday....
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Jul 08, 2008
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Ramesh Jaura , IPS Inter Press Service - Development
TOYAKO, Japan, Jul 8 (IPS) - Three key documents – on African development, food security, and corruption -- emerging Tuesday from the summit of major industrial nations' leaders seem to have taken non-governmental organisations (NGOs) by surprise in delivering more than expected, even if they did not please all....
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Jul 08, 2008
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Enrique Gili , IPS Inter Press Service - Development
SAN DIEGO, California, Jul 8 (IPS) - David Aabo is en route from Peru to New York City after having spent much of the last few years in the South American country investigating opportunities for development that might help local entrepreneurs build a sustainable regional economy....
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Jul 08, 2008
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Farid Ahmed , IPS Inter Press Service - Development
DHAKA, Jul 8 (IPS) - As rising seas, melting glaciers, floods and cyclones are increasingly putting millions of people at risk in South Asia, the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) met here last week to find ways to mitigate the impacts of changing climate....
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Jul 08, 2008
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Sarah McGregor , IPS Inter Press Service - Development
ARUSHA, Jul 7 (IPS) - The six-foot tall corn stalks on Kastul Baha's homestead are the envy of his pastoral village in northern Tanzania. Baha was one of the fortunate farmers this crop season with $35 to buy a package of fertilizer to apply over his half-hectare field. He expects to...
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Jul 07, 2008
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Thalif Deen , IPS Inter Press Service - Development
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 7 (IPS) - The implementation of internationally agreed development goals (IADGs) -- including the eradication of extreme poverty and hunger by 2015 -- is being increasingly hampered by lack of coordination and coherence both among rich and poor nations, and also within the United Nations....
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