Milford Bateman, 6 December, 2010
Microfinance: high hopes and grim realities
Thirty years after its emergence, microfinance still lays claim to being one of the most important poverty reduction and sustainable ...
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Professor Fawaz A Gerges, 22 November, 2010

The Future of Yemen?
Will the crisis in Yemen, a state characterized by failing institutions, lawlessness, social and political instability, abject poverty, and foreign ...
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Dr Francisco Dominguez, 8 November 2010

The US Militarisation of Latin America
The Latin American social democratic model, which places the fight against poverty and exclusion at the centre of its policies, ...
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Fred Pearce, 25 October, 2010

Peoplequake: population myths unravelled
Many fear an unsustainable explosion in global population, but in fact the population bomb is being defused round the world ...
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Robert Dougans and David Green, 4 October, 2010

Stifling debate: libel laws and the price of free speech
English libel law, and the use of ‘super-injunctions’, are becoming a global disgrace, with a profoundly negative impact on freedom ...
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Professor David Nutt, 7 June, 2010

Scientists and policy making
The advice of scientists is critical in the big policy issues of our time from energy and climate to health ...
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Philippe Sands QC, 10 May, 2010

Torture, Lawyers and Accountability
Philippe Sands QC is Professor of international law at University College London, a barrister at Matrix Chambers, and a regular ...
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Michael Walls, 26 April, 2010

The crisis in Somalia
Years of fighting between rival war lords and an inability to deal with famine and disease have led to the ...
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Susanna Mitchell, 12 April, 2010

Immigration in the 21st century: facts and misconceptions
As the financial crisis has begun to impact heavily on the real economy, immigration has become an increasingly emotive issue ...
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Dr Zoë Marriage, 8 March, 2010

International assistance to countries at war – the Democratic Republic
Zoë Marriage is Senior Lecturer at the School of Oriental and African Studies, where she teaches courses on Security and ...
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Dr Francisco Dominguez, 22 February, 2010

What price Democracy? The hidden forces behind the Honduran coup
In June last year, Manuel Zelaya, the democratically elected President of Honduras, was kidnapped in a military coup, and flown ...
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Richard Wilkinson, 8 February 2010

Inequality and its Social Impact
There is compelling new evidence that large income inequalities within societies damage the social fabric and quality of life for ...
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Marko Hoare, 25 January 2010

Bosnia-Hercegovina – the crumbling Balkan keystone
Bosnia-Hercegovina is a state that was designed not to function. The Constitutional order established by the Dayton Accord of 1995 ...
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