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interesting thesis, ties Detroit's fondness for SUVs to chicken... It started in 1961 with chicken. Trying to stop a surge of chicken imports into Germany, the European Common Market bowed to the European poultry lobby and almost tripled the tariff on frozen chicken from the United States. Washington, of course, struck back. In 1963, it raised tariffs on a range of European products: brandy to hit the French; dextrine, a food and glue component, to hit the Dutch.

international donors, the World Bank and most African governments for decades have largely ignored the needs of farmers, despite the fact that agriculture is the continent's largest economic sector and biggest employer. Not Ghana though!

first of a series on "how industrialized fishing fleets have decimated fishing stocks worldwide".

Simplistic. Correlation is not causation. Depleted fishing grounds vrs teeming masses swarming European beaches.

Fancy that, a country subsidizes its farmers (fertilizer controls), improves food security and now exports. Whither free trade and World Bank prescriptions. I suppose Europe and the US don't provide agricultural subsidies to their farmers, right?

The Indian court ruled that the city's expensive private schools, which were granted land at relatively low rates, were required by law to set aside 20 percent of their admissions for poor students. Hey, affirmative action

four brothers mix medicinal syrups and creams from coca leaf, the raw ingredient of cocaine. "It was the knowledge I took from my grandmother that made me see coca's commercial potential" on coca-derivative products. "I remember standing at her side when

Major infrastructure gaps need to be addressed, particularly in energy, water, information and communications technology (ICT), and some areas of transport. The annual funding gap in infrastructure is about $350-430 million. Quoth the world bank

Bemoaning the farm lobby. Farming has become the economy's most pampered, protected and subsidized sector. But most of today's farm programs are simply income transfers from consumers and taxpayers to farmers. Aside from their costs, these programs actual

In this case, Sprint concluded that its fractious fraction of consumers- 1,100 people who flooded its call centers 40,000 times in just six months- falls outside the company's bounds. These so-called demon customers became too expensive to retain, costin

World Bank's Lighting Africa initiative, LED lighting... trying to skip generations and use energy efficient solutions... parallel to adoption of mobile phone over landlines... will the scale be large enough?

Inappropriate aid policies are partly responsible for the Sahel region's poverty "[Aid projects in the Sahel] are almost always driven by externally imposed ideas for development" When designing aid projects the views of locals are usually ignored bec

Elizabeth Asiedu's 2003 paper... survery of 22 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa over the period 1984-2000 to examine the impact of political risk, institutional framework and government policy on Foreign Direct Investment, macroeconomic stability, efficien

First it was tortillas in Mexico, then it was Frosted Flakes in America and recently German beer. Now the latest food to become the victim of prices pushed up by the massive shift of crops to biofuel are Germany's beloved gummy bears. Prices of glucose, t

The problem was that he was taking out a so-called jumbo mortgage- a loan greater than the $417,000 mortgage that can be sold to the federally chartered Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. The market for large mortgages has suddenly dried up.