Posts from the ‘economics’ category

Terry speaker series: First up – the authors of “The 100-Mile Diet” (Friday, November 23rd, noon)

Details on obtaining tickets for this event can be found at the top by clicking home. It looks like a lot, but really it’s not (hey,…

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Landscape vs. Public Space: Homelessness and Vancouver’s Olympic Bid

Vancouver is poised on the brink of World Citydom, and those closest to the Olympic project can almost taste it. David Cobb, senior vice president of…

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So Long, Development, and Thanks for All the Fish.

Aid: Give a man a fish, he’ll eat for a day. Development: Teach a man to fish, he’ll eat for a lifetime. Modernization: If we could…

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A thought on Thanksgiving: Coffee, 0.7%, and the Millenium Development Goals

Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about good old 0.7%. This is the hallmark figure suggested by Pearson as a target for foreign aid to developing…

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One episode of the Bionic Woman equals clean water for 300,000 African Families

Here is one of two cranes outside the Michael Smith Laboratories right now. Apparently, there is a lot of jumping in the “Bionic Woman” television show.…

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Walrus article provides a good, albeit, pessimistic context on the general mess that is Africa

Africa is a mess and it’s not going to get better any time soon. That’s the awful truth that’s so hard to face — or to…

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Tro Tro: Transportation for the People by the People

The tro tro, a dilapidated minivan, gutted and refurbished, is the pin-up vehicle of Ghana’s transport system. They are everywhere, taking over the streets, intercity, intra-city…

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STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS

so, this all started with my attending the terry sponsored presentation by wade davis which led me to the terry website and there i saw the…

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ALL ROADS LEAD TO GRAND FORKS: A GLOBAL CITY IN ITS OWN RIGHT

Far from the bustle of BC’s lower mainland, and tucked away between the Kootenay and Okanagan regions, and occupying the peripheral milieu of Crowsnest Highway 3,…

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THE PATH TO DEPENDENCY: UNDERSTANDING NEOLIBERALISM

“…since the others become men in name against us, it seems that we are the enemies of mankind; the elite shows itself in its true colors…

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