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31 Jan 2012 2 minute read

This article is more than seven years old.

Re-colonizing Africa?

India celebrated Republic Day on 26 January, a national holiday, with ... reports in the financial section that the government of India plans to assist Indian companies to lease and buy up land in African ... is predictably nauseating. ‘Government to boost India Inc's global M&A’[mergers and acquisitions] read the headline in the ...

1 Apr 2005 12 minute read

This article is almost 14 years old.

The waves that woke the world

... any government.’ Lasanda Kurukulasuriya INDIA: Caste rises from the graves When the tsunami hit the beaches of ... at first but soon their frequency could not be ignored: India’s lower-caste Dalits (once called ‘untouchables’) were being ...

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19 Sep 2007 2 minute read

This article is more than 11 years old.

... them. Through stories fresh from the streets and brothels of India, Nigeria and Moldova, profiles of both the exploiters and the exploited ... Bishakha Datta introduces us to the sex workers of India, and why abolishing prostitution is unlikely to stop people-trafficking. ...

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4 May 2007 2 minute read

This article is almost 12 years old.

Radio New Internationalist - The strength in the roots

... governments and countries across Africa, he’s just been in India searching for his mother’s childhood. He gives us a very personal account of what he finds in India… and also in South Africa where black gold miners are dying because ...

2 Oct 1979 12 minute read

This article is more than 39 years old.

Small, gifted... and they work

... is just that - community health. The medical profession in India has betrayed the poor and the sick, especially in the rural areas. In ... mortality has slumped from 200 to 40 per thousand; in rural India it averages 139, in Bombay 80, in Britain 16. Nothing succeeds like ...

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5 Oct 2000 8 minute read

This article is more than 18 years old.

... by the Charities Aid Foundation, which has lately set up CAF India with Indian trustees and staff. CAF is also in partnership with the South ...

1 Mar 2003 2 minute read

This article is almost 16 years old.

From dawn to dusk

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5 May 2000 6 minute read

This article is almost 19 years old.

... fibre requirements. The six big producers are the US, China, India, Pakistan, Uzbekistan and Turkey. They account for about 75 per cent of ... cotton production. The biggest producers are Peru, Egypt, India, Brazil and the US. Projects and experiments have also expanded during ...

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4 Nov 2011 2 minute read

This article is more than seven years old.

Postcards from the Middle East

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21 Jan 2009 2 minute read

This article is more than ten years old.

The really ugly face of capitalism

... The food-hungry land-grabbers include China, India, Japan, Malaysia, Korea, Egypt, Libya, Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar, ...

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1 Jul 2009 3 minute read

This article is almost ten years old.

... States is exported to developing nations such as China, India and Pakistan, where the environment is being polluted and local men, ...

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1 Oct 2005 2 minute read

This article is more than 13 years old.

Old failures feed new famines

... famines in the world’s largest democracy – independent India. Yet Ethiopia, Malawi and Niger are also multi-party electoral ...

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