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Natural Disaster Prevention and Mitigation

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Thursday, August 2, 2012

During he 1990s, natural disasters-floods, groughts, earthquakes, storms, strong winds, torrential rais, and muudslides-hit the world 500-800 times a year and cost more than $600 billion, more than in the previous four decades combined. Losses in the 1990s were three times those in the 1908s and fifteen times those of the 1950s. 

Global infectious diseases

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Global infectious diseases

Global infectious diseases

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Wednesday, August 1, 2012

The world suddenly faces an appalling health crisis. Once more, it originates largely in poverty and destitution-in developing world. AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, pneumonia, diarrhea, and measles now kill 13 million people a year, and the numbers keep going up. They threaten to reverse decades of development in many developing countries. 

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Peacekeeping, conflict prevention, combatting terrorism

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Peacekeeping, conflict prevention, combatting  terrorism

Peacekeeping, conflict prevention, combatting terrorism

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Monday, July 30, 2012

Wars between states have given way almost entirely to intrastate wars and armed conflicts. In 1999-2000 there were no fewer than fifty such wars, and they had killed 7 milion civilians since their inception. More than 90 percent of them since 1945 have taken place in developing countries. These conflicts increasingly draw surrounding countries into violence.

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Digital Divide

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Digital Divide.

Digital Divide

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Friday, July 27, 2012

Just as education can equalize or divide countries and people, information and communications technologies can go either way. Right now, these technologies-even though they have sometimes advanced surprisingly in some developing countires -are very unevenly distributed. The resulting " digital divide " is of great concern.

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Education for All

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Wednesday, July 25, 2012

One in six adults on the planet cannot read or write. Some 600 million women and 300 million men, 99 percent of them in developing countries, remain illiterate. Some 115 million children between six and eleven-one in five-are not in school. Of those who go to school, one in four drop out before completing five years of basic education.

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