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With the US Senate approving a resolution formally acknowledging the historic injustice behind slavery and the country's 'Jim Crow' laws on 18 June, Horace Campbell asks 'Why now?'
It is a matter of the highest priority to accord greater weight to the voice of developing countries, in seeking practical solutions to the world financial and economic crisis, Export Development and International Trade Minister Prof. G.L. Peiris, told the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
Supachai Panitchpakdi, secretary-general of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, has called for Asia to have a monetary fund of its own to ensure financial stability in the region.
Asia should have its own monetary fund to better ensure financial stability of the region, a senior UN official said.
Nobel-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz tells Deutsche Welle why the G8 needs to give grants to poor countries, what he thinks of tax cuts to combat the crisis and how banks have worked to resist regulatory reform.
Beijing, July 4: Asia should have its own monetary fund to better ensure financial stability of the region, a senior UN official has said.
Asia should have its own monetary fund to better ensure financial stability of the region, a senior UN official said at the Global Think Tank Summit in Beijing Friday.
Chum Mey and Bou Meng are two of seven prisoners left alive in S-21 prison when the regime fell in 1979, out of more than 14,000 inmates. They testified this week against former leader .
James Quilligan: "The immediate crisis we are facing is to shift from seeing energy, nature, food and water as monetized commodities to recognizing them as reserve values... essential for our survival."
One of the most important conclusions to be drawn from the economic crisis is the need to preserve national policy space, writes Sao Paolo Governor José Serra. In part two of his essay, he argues that countries should be free to adopt development policies according to their interests.
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