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An examination of the data used and the claims made in the World Bank report, Trading for Development in the Age of Global Value Chains. While the report portrays global value chains as contributing to poor countries’ development, its data shows the opposite.
The ‘double reduction’ policy of minimising financial pressure on parents and burden on children can be seen as the government’s affirmation that the minds and health of students and families come before the pockets of investors and billionaires.
The creation of the modern, interconnected world is generally credited to European pioneers. But Africa was the wellspring for almost everything they achieved – and African lives were the terrible cost.
Hydropower dams are drivers of climate change as they emit methane, 28-34 times more potent than carbon dioxide, say studies.
Country-wide marches in Sudan on October 30 marked a major escalation in the mass resistance against the military coup. Protesters, who until then were mostly confined to neighborhoods, took over the main roads and highways, paralyzing all transport.
The accusation against Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro for “crimes against humanity” on public health grounds made by Brazilian Congressional panel – many of these crimes mimic the actions and policies of Donald Trump and could be the basis for similar actions against the former U.S. president.
Since the 1979 Sandinista revolution, the living conditions for women have drastically improved, successes which even the period of neoliberal rule (1990-2006) couldn’t completely overturn. Their material and social position has further strengthened during the second Sandinista period from 2007 until today.
In the absence of adequate public knowledge, and thus the reduced ‘threat’ of an informed populace participating in a real democracy, power is more or less free to do as it pleases.
The widespread view on the left that Marx had adopted an extreme productivist view of the human domination of nature—and hence had failed to perceive the natural limits to production and ecological contradictions in general, was contradicted by his theory of the metabolic rift.
By Nov. 15, Cuba will have fully vaccinated an astounding 92% of its population, thanks to Cuba’s development and production of its own vaccines. Cuba’s vaccination rate is the fastest in the world, and the only country whose children as young as two years are being covered.
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Ever since its founding in 1946, Janata has voiced its principled dissent against all conduct and practice that is detrimental to the cherished values of nationalism, democracy, secularism and socialism, while upholding the integrity and the ethical norms of healthy journalism. For more than seventy years now, week after week, it has continued to analyse the changes taking place in the country and the world from a socialist standpoint, and thus promote the spread of socialist ideology in the country.
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