The poverty party circuit
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One-third of the world's population makes less than $300 per year. They have grown immune to lecturing on sustainable development from first-world 'povertycrats'. Seventy percent of money allocated to developmental aid is spent on bureaucracy, and aid to poor countries has dwindled almost 30%, from $70 billion to $50 billion. The foreign aid budget of the United States, for instance, is one-tenth a percent of GDP. Poor countries will not consent to restrain development for environmental reasons, arguing they have the same rights to economic improvement as the industrialized nations that have created the problem in the first place.
Publication Name: The Bulletin with Newsweek
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 1440-7485
Year: 1997
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Asians with bad hearts
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Samin K. Sharma, the top heart specialist at New York City's Mount Sinai Medical center, reports heart disease is more common among immigrants in the US than in native born Americans. South Asian immigrants in particular have a high incidence of heart disease. Rotoblator angioplasty is a technique to open hard, calcified, and chronic blockages in coronary arteries.
Publication Name: The Bulletin with Newsweek
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 1440-7485
Year: 1999
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How to save 'failed states'
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The problem of how rich nations can help poor ones is made worse by the high number of 'failed states' whose internal social and political systems are in chaos. The dangers of such states include terrorism and illegal migration.
Publication Name: The Bulletin with Newsweek
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 1440-7485
Year: 2001
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