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Global Ethics Corner explores who should pay to stop global warming, ocean pollution and our food supply, climate change and trade competitiveness, and how to preserve the Earth's forests.
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This document summarizes the thrust and scope of the consultations on the IMF coordinated by New Rules for Global Finance with the aim to formulate recommendations that form a common floor for civil society demands in terms of IMF reforms.
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The Carnegie Council (USA) and the China Reform Forum (PRC) propose five business-oriented steps their nations could take together to combat climate change while meeting energy needs.
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Did it ever occur to you that improving your legal research skills could save you hours of research time in the future? Take action now by signing up in a Lexis/Westalw training this coming October 2 and October 9. In the training sessions, you will be able to meet the specialist trainers from Lexis and [...]
Updated: 2009-09-25 10:15:55
The Journal covers the interdisciplinary field of comparative European Politics and European Legal Studies, focusing on law, politics, economy and society.
Examples of subject matters are: Politics and Policy of the EU, European Economy, European Society, European Union External Policies and International Relations. The journal’s profile is purposely broadly defined and will evolve alongside the focus [...]
Updated: 2009-09-25 10:05:32
Ctrl+P was founded as a response to the dearth of critical art publications in the Philippines. It is produced in Manila and published on the Web with zero funding.
It is circulated as a PDF file via email, it is a downloadable and printable publication that takes advantage of the digital medium’s fluidity, immediacy, ease and [...]
Updated: 2009-09-25 09:47:22
The Iranian EFL Journal is a unique and major forum devoted to discussions on English as an International Language research and development especially as it relates to Iran and its teaching and learning of English. Their global readership includes linguists, teachers, students of language acquisition and others with a professional interest in English second language acquisition. [...]
Updated: 2009-09-25 09:36:08
Ufahamu: A Journal of African Studies is an interdisciplinary journal of African Studies. Named after the Swahili word for comprehension, understanding or being, Ufahamu: A Journal of African Studies is committed to views about social issues, addressing both the general reader and the scholar.
Since its establishment in 1970, Ufahamu: A Journal of African Studies continues [...]
Updated: 2009-09-25 09:31:24
Just like astronomers require a virtual observatory to study the stars and other distant objects in the galaxy, researchers in the arts and humanities need a digital infrastructure to get access to and join together the information and the knowledge that is embedded in digital content. The Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities [...]
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‘Guidance for authors’ pages for more information:
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It attempts to explore the issues around the enormous impact of ICT (Information and communication technologies) on the academic library. It also shows how researchers achieve faster, better and different research through virtual research environments.
[Source: Video from Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC)]
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It is a free 3D multi-user virtual world developed by Linden Labs in 2003, and is inhabited by millions of residents across the world. JISC’s new guide to Second Life is written by lecturers for lecturers, to help others to use virtual worlds for teaching.
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The HathiTrust is a collaboration of a number of leading American university research libraries, including the University of Michigan and the University of California, who are working to provide an online digital archive/ library of their major research materials. This includes the full text of books, monographs and pamphlets out of copyright. All subject areas [...]
Updated: 2009-09-24 15:37:52
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nbsp; A series of tax measures enacted in Canada over the last decade have benefited mainly big domestic charities — hospitals and universities and that sort of thing — as they encourage the gift of publicly traded shares.
nbsp; But overseas development work has also benefited. Just two not-so-small examples — Vancouver mining magnates Frank Giustra and Lukas Lundin have each given $100 million to the Clinton Foundation for work in poor parts of the world.
nbsp; Now there's a thoughtful proposal being put forward for the Canadian government to extend the favourable tax treatment to two more large pools of Canadians' wealth — real estate and privately held companies. For my analysis of this proposal and its potential, click here.
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: MAIN CONTACT EDITOR SUBSCRIBE RSS Today is Wednesday September 30, 2009 Food donations down as global need soars By Don Cayo 21 Sep 2009 COMMENTS(0 Globalization : for better or worse Filed under : CIDA Uganda food prices Kenya food aid Canadian International Development Agency Africa eastern Africa Ethiopia Somalia WFP World Food Program Canada has topped up its food aid budget by 30 million to address the growing famine in parts of Ethiopia , Somalia , Kenya and . Uganda This donation brings Canada's annual total to about 145 million roughly 5 per Canadian . That's well down from the 275 million Canada gave last year , and in line with the level of giving in the two previous . years Most countries' donations have dipped in this recession year , and Canada's donation is still considered a large commitment by the standards of what others give . But it's a drop in the bucket when measured against . need For example , CIDA minister Bev Oda said in her announcement that 10 million of Canada's extra 30 million will be earmarked for Kenya , where many parts of the country have seen a near-total failure of annual rains and where famine is already settling in . Yet the UN's World Food
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: MAIN CONTACT EDITOR SUBSCRIBE RSS Today is Wednesday September 30, 2009 Water and social change in Ethiopia By Don Cayo 19 Sep 2009 COMMENTS(0 Globalization : for better or worse Filed under : Jack Webster Foundation CIDA development Canadian International Development Agency Latin America Africa eastern Africa Ethiopia water The theory is simple : If you provide easier access to water , the scarce and essential resource that demands so much of women's time in a dry country like Ethiopia , you loosen the bonds of drudgery that hold them . down It doesn't always work out quite that simply , or that quickly , as is made plainin a two-page V ancouver Sun story by Joshua Hergesheimer . He looks unblinkingly at the challenge that remains affecting meaningful social change , despite a Canadian NGO's great success in bringing clean , accessible water to villages whose women's lives have been defined by the need to fetch and carry , and whose children have often died from water-borne . disease Hergesheimer's story , accessible here and well worth the read , interests me for another reason , too . He traveled to Ethiopia and wrote the story on a scholarship grant available to students of
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: MAIN CONTACT EDITOR SUBSCRIBE RSS Today is Wednesday September 30, 2009 Africa trip in the offing for young BC journalists By Don Cayo 7 Sep 2009 COMMENTS(0 Globalization : for better or worse Filed under : international development Rwanda Jack Webster Foundation Mozambique Cambodia CIDA Vietnam Uganda Niger development Tanzania Canadian International Development Agency Honduras Africa eastern Africa Ethiopia Malawi Peru Seeing the World through New Eyes , a fellowship that gives young British Columbia journalists their first taste of international reporting on developing issues , is going back to Africa in 2010. The Jack Webster Foundation , which administers the program , put out a call for applications late last month , and the five recipients who are selected will begin preparing for the trip in October . The fellowship offers coaching for the planning and travel , and it covers the cost of the trip , which will take place in . March I've been the volunteer project leader for the program since its inception in 2006, and this will be the third group I've accompanied to Africa . Previous fellows went to Malawi and Tanzania in 2006 and to Mozambique and Rwanda in 2008. In the
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