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  India’s Rural Poor: Why Housing Isn’t Enough to Create Sustainable Communities

  India’s desire to become the world’s next big economic power is as real as the enormous challenges it faces in raising the social and economic well being of its rural populations. According to Abraham George, founder of The George Foundation, an NGO focused on poverty alleviation in South India, The issue of adequate housing is integral to poverty reduction and social justice in India. In this opinion piece, George describes the living conditions of the rural poor and argues ...

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  Taxing Sri Lanka’s Mobile Customers; Goose or Eggs?

  Taxes are necessary. The consistent theme of the ’Choices’ columns has been that choices have to be made; that one cannot have the cake and eat it too. Sept 03, 2007 (LBO) - Taxes are necessary. The consistent theme of the ’Choices’ columns has been that choices have to be made; that one cannot have the cake and eat it too. Taxes or inflation The present administration got elected by promising to fight a war, give government employment to all gra...

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  La mano al bolsillo

  Por filantrop?a pura o como oportunidad de negocio, en el sector privado colombiano toma auge la Responsabilidad Social Empresarial. El sector privado tambi?n se mete la mano al bolsillo, aunque no en la misma medida que los empresarios de pa?ses vecinos. Probablemente el tema con mayor auge medi?tico en el escenario actual de la lucha contra la pobreza en Colombia sea el de la Responsabilidad Social Empresarial, por la cual se entiende la inversi?n que las empresas privadas realizan en favor de...

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  Intel’s E-Learning Drive

  Intel remains committed to supporting the advancement of skilled workforce in Malaysia through various projects, including the 1:1 e-learning initiative, said Intel South-East Asia director Marcus Low. Low said the initiative was under the umbrella of the Intel? World Ahead Programme, which was aimed at connecting the next billion people to a world of opportunities. He said the World Ahead programme was driving cooperation between local stakeholders and industry leaders t...

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  Poor Nations Lose

  Huge profits made by London-based brokers who arrange emissions-cutting projects in developing countries contrast with little benefit for the world’s poorest nations, company and United Nations data shows. The Kyoto Protocol on global warming allows rich countries to meet greenhouse gas emissions targets by paying poor nations to cut emissions on their behalf, using the so-called clean development mechanism (CDM). But evidence is emerging that while brokers stand to mak...

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  ?Qui?n es ’Sam’ Pitroda?

  En M?xico muy pocos conocen a Satyanarayan Gangarm (Sam) Pitroda. Aqu? no fijamos nuestra atenci?n en lo que ?l hace: innovar, crear nuevas empresas, utilizar la tecnolog?a para beneficio de los pobres y ayudar a su pa?s a entrar de lleno a la econom?a del conocimiento. Aqu? estamos demasiado concentrados en las denominadas reformas estructurales o en evitar que se hagan esas reformas; en seguir insistiendo a favor del Consenso de Was-hington o en rechazarlo. Cuando m?s, hacemos referencias ret?...

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  In India, One Cheap Car Could Go a Long Way

  In many of India’s boomtowns, a car is a quintessential part of the middle-class dream, a symbol of status and comfort that helps a family arrive in style, without a layer of grime from the choking pollution or soggy, mud-stained clothes from the rain. Every afternoon when Sudheer Mahanan, a government forest warden, picks up his two children from school, he is forced to squeeze them onto his moped. As they speed over monsoon-drenched potholes and weave around meandering cows, his...

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  World’s Poorest, Living on $1, Get Hypothetical Help in Survey

  How many people in the world live on less than $1 a day? When U.S. workers in an online survey answered that question, 23 percent correctly said 1 billion people or more. The survey, sponsored by the nonprofit group Millennium Promise, gathered information from 6,823 employees at U.S. companies and released the results today. Millennium Promise was founded by the economist Jeffrey D. Sachs to help ease extreme poverty in African villages. Sixty percent of the sur...