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By Robert Merkel on September 22, 2010
Nearly two million people die prematurely each and every year due to indoor air pollution, according to the World Health Organization (Full text (PDF)), virtually all in low and middle income countries. In terms of perhaps a more useful estimate [...]
Posted in Developing world, Health, Poverty, USA, Women | Tagged black carbon, developing countries, Developing world, foreign aid, Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves, India, indoor air pollution |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 3, 2010
Open Democracy has asked a range of its contributors to answer the following questions: A volcanic decade in global politics ends amid deep unease about the world’s ability to rise to key 21st-century challenges. openDemocracy writers draw breath and look [...]
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By Kim on July 9, 2009
If Kevin Rudd wanted to impress Pope Benedict with his support for Blessed Mary MacKillop’s canonisation, he might have picked the wrong topic. In the lead up to the G20 meeting, the Pontiff had other things on his mind – [...]
Posted in Developing world, Economics, Ethics, International, Politics, Religion | Tagged Capitalism, Caritas in Veritate, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Developing world, encyclical, finance, G20, global financial crisis, globalisation, Italy, Kevin Rudd, Mary Mackillop, Pope Benedict XVI, social teaching, social thought |
By Robert Merkel on April 30, 2009
The misallocation of attention and resources on rare but spectacular risks, to the detriment of dealing with mundane but far more lethal ones, is something I’ve personally commented on more than once; our skewed psychology of risk is still not [...]
Posted in Developing world, Health, Medicine, Poverty | Tagged Developing world, influenza, risk, spanish flu, swine flu |
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