Poor nations want compensation for economic crisis

Developing nations are urging the industrialized world to acknowledge its responsibility for the global economic and climate crises and to compensate them for the damages these have caused.

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Instead of the traditional Mother's Day cards, the World Food Programme is campaigning for people to add an eCard to mothers on their Wall Against Hunger.

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A specter is haunting the cities and villages of most developing nations, warns a senior official of a World Bank-affiliated organization.

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But don't shed any tears for the purported beneficiaries of the WTO talks. If truth-in-advertising rules applied, this might have been called the Doha Anti-Development Round.

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World Trade Organisation talks in Geneva this week broke up without agreement. This seemingly marks the final demise of the so-called Doha round of talks (named for the Qatari capital where the talks on a world trade agreement began in 2001).

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India's trade minister, Kamal Nath, yesterday accused the United States of putting the livelihoods of a billion of the world's poorest people against "commercial interests" as each country blamed the other for the acrimonious collapse of world trade talks in Geneva.

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The link is to a promo page on ExxonMobil's corporate Web site, from which you can launch television commercials and brochures produced by ExxonMobil pushing their "green" initiatives. At least in the copy it's interesting to see how they've pushed things.

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G8 Environmental ministers deadlock on cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 2020.

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Just a few decades ago, crop yields here were far lower and diets much worse.

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It's less common to find them used to fund major business expansions or to hire new employees.

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Ha-Joon Chang is a Cambridge economist who specializes in the abject poverty of the Third World and its people, groups, nations, and empires, and their doctrines that are responsible for this condition.

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Five countries — Argentina, Brazil, Libya, Nigeria and Thailand — have made tentative commitments to put the computers into the hands of millions of students, with production in Taiwan expected to begin by mid-2007.

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The United States maintained its role as the leading supplier of weapons to the developing world in 2006, followed by Russia and Britain, according to a Congressional study to be released Monday. Pakistan, India and Saudi Arabia were the top buyers.

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Once we thought that illnesses like heart disease, cancer and diabetes were an exclusive of affluent countries. Globalization has been changing this trend.

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World's poorest nations calling for reform in global trade to address global poverty.

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William Powers and Glenn Hurowitz lay out the case for "carbon ranching" as an economically lucrative way for developing countries to begin working to reverse climate change.

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Forget Silicon Valley—if you want to see a place enthralled with Web 2.0, come to China. A rising middle class, cheap start-up costs, increasing penetration of PCs and Internet-enabled cellphones, and an ability to tap the local market better than multinationals like Google or …

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In an effort to expand its global reach in computing, Microsoft plans to offer a stripped-down version of Windows, Office and other software for $3 to people in developing nations.

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Lessons on Globalization: Jamaica as a Microcosm

Underlying many of today's contentious issues is the growing interconnection of the world in all senses - political, economical, and cultural.

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From Kiva's web site, "Kiva lets you connect with and loan money to unique small businesses in the developing world, By choosing a business on Kiva.org, you can "sponsor a business" and help the world's working poor make great strides towards economic independence.

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"The British government will today publicly defy the United States by giving money for safe abortion services in developing countries to organisations that have been cut off from American funding."

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