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ZIMBABWE: How Do You Solve a Problem Like Arrears?
By Zenzele Ndebele
BULAWAYO - Faced with nearly six billion dollars of external debt, Zimbabwe's national unity government is considering applying for Highly Indebted Poor Country status.
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ENERGY-MEXICO: Big and Small Firms Harness Sun's Rays
By Emilio Godoy
CHAPANTONGO, Mexico - It was Isabel Cortés, the family matriarch, who started the project. In 1990, she started looking for a way to market xoconostle, the sour variety of the nopal cactus fruit that is abundant in this arid part of central Mexico, in the Mezquital valley.
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FINANCE: Fighting Off Looters in the Ruins
Analysis by Peter Costantini
SEATTLE - Reckless greed on Wall Street is a dog-bites-man story. Still, the renewed feeding frenzy of the alpha dogs of finance in the embers of the bonfire of their own vanities has inspired amazement and disgust across the political spectrum.
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DEVELOPMENT: Crisis Could Open Doors for Change, Says UNCTAD
By Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS - As the financial crisis continued to threaten world economies last year, the White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel famously declared: "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste."
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BIODIVERSITY: Companies Push Hard to Halt Tuna Collapse
By Stephen Leahy*
VICTORIA, Seychelles - In the Seychelles' only cannery, the din of thousands of empty tuna cans rattling on narrow metal troughs is incredible as they bustle along, soon to be filled with Skipjack tuna that only days ago were swimming freely in the inky blue Indian Ocean.
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EUROPE: Poland's Pension Cuts - Cue for Former Eastern Bloc
By Pavol Stracancsky
WARSAW - Poland’s pension cuts on tens of thousands of former communist functionaries and secret police officers are adding fillip to campaigns in other East European states for similar legislation.
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ETHIOPIA: Dam Critics Won't Go Away
By IPS Correspondents
ADDIS ABABA - Ethiopia is building a 240-metre high dam on the Omo River that is intended to end the country's electricity shortage and supply power to neighbouring countries. Not everyone's happy.
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PHILIPPINES: Street Kids Learn to Save in Times of Crisis
By Kara Santos*
MANILA - Since he dropped out of elementary school, 17-year old Cenen has been making a living for himself driving a borrowed motorised sidecar in the crowded streets of Binondo, a bustling business district in Manila, capital of the Philippines.
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HAITI: U.S. Lawmakers, NGOs Call for Debt Cancellation
By Jim Lobe
WASHINGTON - Three weeks after Haiti's devastating earthquake, nearly 100 U.S. lawmakers joined with key civil society groups here Thursday to urge the Group of Seven (G7) leading western nations to commit to cancelling all of the Caribbean country's multilateral debt.
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KENYA: Insuring Pastoralists Against Increasing Risks
By Susan Anyangu-Amu
NAIROBI - The droughts in the Turkana region were less severe when she was growing up, says Laura Letapalel, and pastoralists could still find some grass and water for their animals. Now, she laments, the droughts are longer and there is nothing to eat.
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COSTA RICA: Luxury Homeowners Evade Solidarity Tax
By Daniel Zueras
SAN JOSÉ - The first attempt to collect a new tax on luxury homes in Costa Rica has ended in failure, in spite of the fact that it is a solidarity tax entirely devoted to building social housing for slum-dwellers.
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DEVELOPMENT: Natural Dye Omnibus Draws Top Researchers to India
By IPS Correspondent
KOLKATA, India - A 15-volume documentation of 3,000 natural dyes by a 19th century British textile entrepreneur will be the focus of an upcoming international seminar on natural dyes in India.
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CORRUPTION: U.S. Banks Abetting Corrupt Regimes, Probe Finds
By Lucy Komisar*
NEW YORK - The global bank HSBC may be running offshore accounts for central banks. According to a U.S. Senate investigation, an HSBC subsidiary in London called HSBC Equator Bank had a sister bank in the Bahamas.
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