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Steven Elliott-Gower

Let them remit | The Economist - 0 views

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  • Steven Elliott-Gower on 23 Jul 13
     
    This article connects issues of migration and remittances to African economies, poverty, and terrorism.
Nathan Phelps

China's Toxic Water | The Atlantic - 1 views

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  • Nathan Phelps on 22 Mar 13
     
    On World Water Day, here is a collection of images from southern China, showing local activists fighting against industrial pollution in their waterways, and cancer sufferers in so-called "cancer villages", linked to pollution from hazardous chemicals.
Steven Elliott-Gower

Vietnam and the South China Sea: Rigged | The Economist - 0 views

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  • Steven Elliott-Gower on 22 Jun 14
     
    VIETNAM and China share a long history of enmity-and of managing to patch things up when they go wrong. But their latest dispute is not running true to form. Vietnam was taken aback in early May when China parked an oil rig on its doorstep.
Nathan Phelps

Oxford Univ. school dedicated to 21st century studies - 6 views

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  • Nathan Phelps on 02 Nov 10
     
    This is a link to a school at Oxford that has a trove of resources dealing with a variety of 21st century issues. There are multimedia materials and lots of publications on different topics available as free pdf downloads.
Steven Elliott-Gower

24: Live Another Day [Fiction] - 0 views

www.fox.com/24-live-another-day

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    Bad things happen when terrorists take control of your drones and then your nuclear subs!
Steven Elliott-Gower

Getting to Yes on Transatlantic Trade | Foreign Affairs - 0 views

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  • United Kingdom’s Center for Economic Policy Research estimates that 80 percent of the potential economic gains from the TTIP agreement depend on reducing the conflicts and duplication between EU and U.S. rules on those and other regulatory issues, ranging from food safety to automobile parts.
  • Cultural attitudes on each side toward consumer safety, environmental protection, and privacy run deep, and they will not be overcome with promises of diffuse economic benefits and future job growth.
  • The negotiations should seek to ensure that the United States and Europe remain standard makers, rather than standard takers, in the global economy.
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  • Promoting common rules and certification regimes that cover 800 million EU and U.S. consumers would provide predictability for exporters and investors, make it easier for them to comply with regulations in multiple markets, and thus permit economies of scale. Enabling the EU and the United States to share data and rely on each other’s inspections would stretch scarce regulatory resources and reduce the commercial burden of duplicative tests and requirements. The outcome would be smarter and more streamlined regulation that benefits businesses while protecting the general public from regulatory failures.
  • The TTIP represents the best -- and possibly the last -- opportunity for the United States and the EU to set the global regulatory blueprints by providing a template on which other trade deals can build.
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