Social Issues

Magazine articles on social issues such as crime, the environment, abortion, wealth distribution, drugs, etc.

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Finance & Development December 1, 2005 Hall & Patrinos	Latin America's Indigenous Peoples Despite greater political power, Latin America's indigenous peoples still lag behind in economic and social development.
Finance & Development December 1, 2005 Ferreira & Walton	The Inequality Trap Why equity must be central to development policy.
Finance & Development December 1, 2005 Maureen Lewis	A War Chest for Fighting HIV/AIDS With billions of dollars mobilized, the challenge is how to spend the money wisely in the fight against the global HIV/AIDS epidemic.
Finance & Development December 1, 2005 Conny Lotze	Economics with a Social Face An interview with development economist Nora Lustig, long-time advocate of employing social policies in the battle against poverty, on the need to focus on systemic problems that keep the poor and disadvantaged from advancing economically and the economies from realizing their full potential.
Finance & Development December 1, 2005 Dilip Ratha	Remittances: A Lifeline for Development Governments have often offered incentives to increase remittance flows and to channel them to productive uses. But such policies are more problematic than efforts to expand access to financial services or reduce transaction costs.
Finance & Development December 1, 2005	Sending Money Home: Trends in Migrant Remittances Over the past fifteen years, international migrant remittances have become increasingly prominent -- with $167 billion flowing to developing countries. Survey data show that remittances have reduced the poverty headcount ratio significantly in several low-income countries.
Finance & Development December 1, 2005 Raghuram Rajan	Aid and Growth: The Policy Challenge The best way to get the poor in low-income countries out of poverty is to strengthen economic growth in those countries. But we need more than aid to break the cycle of poverty.
Geotimes December 2005 David Applegate	A Year of Living Dangerously Recent destructive events are reminders of our society's growing vulnerability to natural disasters as more people move into harm's way. Scientists seeking to understand the underlying geologic systems have an obligation to learn more.
Geotimes December 2005	Highlights 2005 -- Natural Hazards Drilling a fault... Mount St. Helens awakens... Reviewing Sumatra... SAFOD crosses the fault...
Geotimes December 2005 Kevin E. Trenberth	A Warming World Climate change is with us; we cannot stop it, although we can slow it down. It behooves us therefore to track how and why the climate is changing.
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