Selling the rich on the need to help the less rich and more unequal
The development picture for this early new century...
Tags: Brazil, China, Dan Vexler, development aid, disfranchised, economic stagnation, Egypt, Global Brief, India, Nigeria, Poor, poverty, Vietnam, Western Europe, World Bank
The future of rights in Western Asia, as in other theatres, will require an abiding rights ‘culture’ that is not so much...
Tags: Arab Spring, China, culture of rights, Ecuador, Egypt, European Court of Human Rights, Global Brief, growth of democracy, Human Rights Act, Human rights culture, judicial review, Lawrence Friedman, Middle East, modernity, Mongolia, Morocco, Poland, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Spain, Stanford Law School, Syria, Thailand, Vietnam
Gareth Evans
…it occurs in the context of the proper application of the much more nuanced ‘Responsibility to Protect’...
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And Russia is stressed too – which is why the world ought to take note
Little known fact: The transition to a market economy...
Tags: Belarus, China, Eastern European countries, Global Brief, Great Depression, life expectancy, mortality, mortality crisis, mortality rates, Moscow, Russia, Russian mortality, Russians, Soviet states, Soviet Union, Stalin, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Vladimir Popov
