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12/10/2010 The discount on Brazilian coffee will be more than twice that on the cheapest grades currently deliverable against ICE Futures U.S.’s arabica contract when it gets included from 2013, according to the bourse. read more » |
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11/04/2010 A dispassionate economic analysis of 'Fair Trade'. read more » |
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10/31/2010 The most frequently used argument for Fair Trade is that it provides small scale producers with the additional income needed to avoid lives mired in poverty. But poverty in coffee growing communities is a multi-faceted problem that cannot be reduced to a simple question of price mechanisms and improved trade relationships. read more » |
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10/08/2010 In a move that has infuriated Chinese officials, the Nobel Committee has awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to the jailed dissident writer and famous democracy advocate, Liu Xiaobo. read more » |
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10/05/2010 After recent evidence showed that China was receiving hundreds of millions of dollars in foreign aid funds to fight diseases such as malaria that were almost non-existent in the country—and at the expense of other developing countries suffering thousands of deaths from these same diseases—there are new reports revealing that this is just the tip of the iceberg and that China is receiving billons of dollars in foreign aid each year. Many are now asking why, when China spends billions of dollars on lavish projects such as the 2008 Olympics and the Shanghai Expo, it deserves any aid at all. read more » |
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10/04/2010 China will have invested a total of 140.5 billion yuan (about 21 billion U.S. dollars) in its ambitious South-to-North Water Diversion (SNWD) project from 2006 to 2010, the country's water diversion authority said Monday. read more » |
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10/04/2010 Leaders from across the world recently pledged to step up foreign aid efforts in order to meet the much-talked-about Millennium Development goals. But more and more economists, politicians and academics are arguing that an efficient and accountable tax regime will do a much better job promoting development than foreign aid. read more » |
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10/03/2010 The water level at the Three Gorges Dam, the world's largest water control project, reached 164.59 meters on Sunday, 10 meters short of its full capacity of 175-meters, said a project official. read more » |
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10/01/2010 To tackle the city's water shortage, the Beijing government has launched a new measure on water use regulations that forbids high water usage industries, like bath cities, ski resorts and golf courses, from start new branches, the Beijing news reports. read more » |
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