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International Business and Trade Group
630 Items, 149 Members
Welcome - This is a place where people can exchange their views and information on business matters! Get answers and counseling from other fellow members!
Development Africa
40 Items, 5 Members
Information and discussion about continent-wide development issues/perspectives.
China and Africa
15 Items, 1 Members
Politically Minded
1113 Items, 108 Members
This group is for everyone who likes to think outside the box and engage a variety of ideas. Post articles here which will provoke thought and discussion, regardless of partisan leanings.
Eco20/20
1510 Items, 121 Members
Come and discuss/learn/share what you know about energy. We also have a website, please check it out, sign up and pass it along.
Can Petroleum Aid development?
50 Items, 5 Members
Neoclassical economists approach petroleum as a "resource curse", alleviated only through appropriate institutional incentives promoting lagging comparative advantages (e.g. export crops). However, broader study of petroleum corporations, authoritarian governments, international supporters, and oppr...
propaganda & marketing
360 Items, 22 Members
about the means and rhetoric that governments and big business use to make us believe their lies.
Mining News
59 Items, 7 Members
This group features mining news from all over the world. Join this group and keep up to date on the latest trends in the commodities markets and get financial news from a variety of mining companies.
food crops vs. export crops
41 Items, 8 Members
Which priorities should policymakers, activists and academics concentrate on? Fair trade of export crops? Local production of food crops? Export/local production of organic produce?
Chad-CameroonPetroleumDevProject
101 Items, 2 Members
Documents relating to World Bank-sponsored petroleum development project.
IB Geography 2009 Food and Health
131 Items, 20 Members
Diigo group for IB Geography teachers preparing resources for the 'The Geography of Food and Health' optional theme of the new IB Geography Syllabus, teaching of which will start in September 2009.
Save The Planet
167 Items, 49 Members
Share information on how to Protect the environment, stop global warming, use alternative energy sources, live a low-impact lifestyle
Clean Natural Gas As A Bridge To Alternative Energy
11 Items, 12 Members
Clean natural gas, which is abundant in shale formations such as the Marcellus shale, could help us transition to a renewable energy future. There is enough natural gas in the United States and Canada to last over 180 years, according to some experts. Now is the time to let our leaders know that clea...
land reform in Africa
3 Items, 1 Members
Discuss issues including Zimbabwe white farms, squatting versus "small foodstock farms," neoliberal economics and formalizing land tenure, and relating common property to individual property.
resource curse?
3 Items, 1 Members
IFIs and Neoliberal Economic Development
0 Items, 1 Members
World Bank, IMF and: privatization; governance; civil society and NGOs; "sustainable development"
social movements
4 Items, 1 Members
Argos Media
974 Items, 18 Members
Diigo bookmark group associated with the Argos Media online magazine.
odious debt
1 Items, 1 Members
A fundamental argument underlying the debt relief (Jubilee) movement is that much of the debt countries must pay back is illegitimate, or odious. The foremost odious debts are those given to despots with full knowledge that those debts simply serve the interests of the creditors (often those credito...
Kono Sierra Leone Diamonds
2 Items, 1 Members
For tracking and discussing Kono diamond mine resources.
Carbon Trading
1 Items, 2 Members
Discuss topics related to trading of carbon credits. Share information and help others. Objective of this group is to educate people about carbon trading
Niger Delta
10 Items, 3 Members
For discussion, information, documents relating to the struggles in the Niger Delta and particularly exploitation by multinational petroleum corporations such as Shell.
Orstrom and common property institutions
2 Items, 1 Members
Discussion of Nobel-prize winner and political scientist Elinor Orstrom's notions of common property, institutions and governance.
anti-authoritarian
2 Items, 4 Members
Our everyday life is permeated with power plays, strive for and and-or intrusion of authority that is maintainable through coercion or manipulation. If we try to understand this, resist power plays by other individual, organizations and state-authorities, we can achieve and spread genuine freedom.