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 SWEDISH HUMANITARIANISM EXPANDS NGO AID0 comments
category picture12 Mar 2012 @ 06:35
Good news for global citizens: Sweden is expanding its funding of NGO operations across the globe. This is in far contrast to the USA which has constricted funding for aid, funding that includes NGO partners across the globe as conduits for the same.  More >

 US BUDGET CUTS FOREIGN AID: ISOLATIONISM RETURNS!0 comments
category picture8 Mar 2012 @ 07:16
The US Congress has cut down budgetary allocations for foreign aid, an act that had caused chagrin on many developmentalist circles across the globe. The bad thing about the allergic congressional aid constriction is that even health research & aid funding for poor countries is also shrinking.  More >

 LIGHT, FIRE, FLAME AS DIVINE EMANATIONS0 comments
category picture7 Mar 2012 @ 06:24
Esoteric knowledge about ‘electric’ and ‘magnetic’ qualities has been widely disseminated and accepted. The same categories have find their expressions in modern physics, with the term ‘electromagnetic’ devised to fuse the two into a spectral continuum.  More >

 INDUSTRIAL COMPETITIVENESS IN VIETNAM 0 comments
category picture6 Mar 2012 @ 05:27
Industrialization is the crux of Vietnam’s development agenda. This is the signal being beaconed by the first industrial competitiveness report of the same country.  More >

 CONGO FRESH VIOLENCE BODES ILL FOR 20120 comments
category picture2 Mar 2012 @ 05:22
Another round of violence recently erupted in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Over 100,000 affected residents have fled their homes and are sheltered in makeshift tents.  More >

 CITIES DRIVE GLOBAL GROWTH0 comments
category picture26 Feb 2012 @ 08:08
The world is going urban and no force whatsoever, save for geological cataclysm of a planetary scale, can wreck the social phenomenon of urbanization. My own country PH is now 70% urban population-wise, which is in far contrast to what it was once during my birthyear of 1958 when 85% of people were rural peasants and fisherfolks.  More >

 GLOBAL FOOD PRICE INDEX DECLINE0 comments
category picture23 Feb 2012 @ 05:32
Global food price index ended up with a general decline, as per report from the FAO. This was a quick reversal of the year-long trend that saw food prices rising as a whole.  More >

 CAN SMART FARMING REVERSE CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT?0 comments
category picture22 Feb 2012 @ 01:13
Can smart farming equalize or even totally reverse the deleterious impact of climate change? What parameters and factors (soil? seeds? water? skills? technology?) need to have some control altogether to see the positive effects of the interventions?  More >

 FISCAL DECENTRALIZATION: SHOWCASING PHILIPPINES0 comments
category picture18 Feb 2012 @ 06:18
As a gesture of interest on the Philippine experience, the United Nations recently published a book showcasing the same country’s fiscal decentralization. The series of laws (since the legislation of the local government code) and practices has come a long way since the mid-80s yet, which renders the ASEAN member state as an exemplar for global studies on urbanization, public administration, and taxation economics.  More >

 ASIANS TOP USA-EUROPE SCIENCE R&D SPENDING0 comments
category picture16 Feb 2012 @ 06:02
Another breakthrough news has struck our perception banks recently, with the gladdening news that Asians as a whole have topped both USA and EU spendings on science research & development.  More >



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