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Back to the Land: The New Green Revolution -- Printout -- TIME
cloudgrabber 2009/10/25
"The bottom of the pyramid really depends on agriculture," says Suresh Babu, senior fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in Washington. "There is no other way to bring them out of poverty except with agriculture.""

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Why The World's Poor Refuse Insurance
There are higher-yielding varieties of groundnut than those that farmers in Malawi tend to plant, but getting them to switch is tough. Better seed is pricey, increasing their risk. So researchers from the World Bank ran an experiment. With local NGOs, they offered the farmers loans. Some loans even came with a crop-insurance policy: if the season was dry and the yield a dud, the debt would be forg
cloudgrabber 2009/09/15
"You have to trust that the insurance company will pay the claim. It's hardly a stretch that people new to financial institutions don't... Plus, even without formal insurance, most people already have some version of a safety net."

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microfinance
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How to Bring Our Schools Out of the 20th Century
cloudgrabber 2009/06/26
"draw on the Wikipedia model to create a collection of online courses that can be updated, improved, vetted and built upon by innovative teachers..... Curriki.org made its debut January 2006, and has been growing fast."

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education
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The Hospital Wars
cloudgrabber 2009/06/26
"since physicians get paid through fee-for-service rather than, say, for curing their patients, their primary incentive is to do more stuff..... pay-for-performance programs..... can work only if they are remunerative enough to counter the base incentives that drive excess care."

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business
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Getting Rich off Those Who Work for Free
cloudgrabber 2009/06/26
"Clever entrepreneurs and even established companies can profit from this volunteerism--but only if they don't get too greedy. The key, Benkler says, is "managing the marriage of money and nonmoney without making nonmoney feel like a sucker.""

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business
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In Defense of Partisan Bickering
cloudgrabber 2009/06/26
" Ideology is a good thing, not a bad one--and partisanship is at its worst when it is not about ideology..... Ideology doesn't have to mean mindless intransigence or a refusal to accommodate new evidence or changing circumstances. It is just a framework of basic principles."

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politics
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The Return of the Realists
cloudgrabber 2009/06/26
"both realism and idealism have been complementary strands in our foreign policy. The goal, now as ever, is not to pick one over the other or to blur the distinction between them. Instead, it's to weave them together in the right combination so that they reinforce each other."

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politics
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Breaking News, Analysis, Politics, Blogs, News Photos, Video, Tech Reviews - TIME.com
cloudgrabber 2009/04/20
　"in the absence of the country's at one time serviceable coastguard, Somali waters have become the site of an international "free for all"..... In the face of this, impoverished Somalis living by the sea have been forced over the years to defend their own fishing expeditions"

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international development

environment
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