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Remittances update -- Africa General

Posted Thu, 2010/03/11 - 01:20 by kaduuli

 Remittances update

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Global Integrity releases 2009 report on corruption

Posted Wed, 2010/02/24 - 12:14 by kaduuli

 Global Integrity released its 2009 Report on corruption on 23/02/2010.

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South Africa to send 22 Ugandans home

Posted Tue, 2010/02/02 - 13:25 by kaduuli

 

www.ted.com - Great site for ideas

Posted Fri, 2010/01/15 - 16:39 by mmillard

TED is a small nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. Since then its scope has become ever broader. Along with the annual TED Conference in Long Beach, California, and the TEDGlobal conference in Oxford UK, TED includes the award-winning TEDTalks video site, the Open Translation Program, the new TEDx community program, this year's TEDIndia Conference and the annual TED Prize.

Interesting Book Series from Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights

Posted Thu, 2010/01/07 - 14:33 by mmillard

Quite an interesting list of books, sent to me from Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights

http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/series/PSHR.html

Open Access for Research and Researchers

Posted Fri, 2009/11/27 - 14:33 by mmillard

"Open Access provides the means to maximise the visibility, and thus the uptake and use, of research outputs. Open Access is the immediate, online, free availability of research outputs without the severe restrictions on use commonly imposed by publisher copyright agreements. It is definitely not vanity publishing or self-publishing, nor about the literature that scholars might normally expect to be paid for, such as books for which they hope to earn royalty payments.

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700 Million Worldwide Desire to Migrate Permanently

Posted Thu, 2009/11/05 - 10:59 by evan

If they could (according to a worldwide Galluip poll), about 700 million adults worldwide -- more than the entire adult population of North America and South America combined -- would like to move to another country permanently. The United States and Canada top the list of most desired destination countries.

If everyone who wanted to move to Canada actually did, the country's population would grow by 170%.

 

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