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Op-Ed Contributor: China’s Entrenched Gender Gap	20.5.2013	International Herald Tribune: Editorials
Op-Ed Contributor: China’s Entrenched Gender Gap
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China president takes charge of sweeping economic reforms (Cached)	17.5.2013	CNN-IBN: World
Chinese President Xi Jinping has taken charge of drawing up ambitious reform plans to revitalise the economy, sources close to the government said, shunning policy stimulus for fear it could worsen local government debt and inflate property prices.
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Latitude: Even Slum Dwellers In China Are Upbeat About Progress	14.5.2013	International Herald Tribune: Editorials
Latitude: Even Slum Dwellers In China Are Upbeat About Progress
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DealBook: As China’s Economy Stumbles, Government Eyes Reform	13.5.2013	NY Times: Business
DealBook: As China’s Economy Stumbles, Government Eyes Reform
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Angola's poor people hit hard by urbanisation crackdown in Luanda \| Lilly Peel	10.5.2013	The Guardian -- World Latest
Forced evictions and illegal housing demolitions have become the norm for people in the overcrowded Angolan capital The Angolan government says it is waging "a sustained war against chaotic urbanisation", but this appears to have become a war against poor people. The most extreme examples are in Luanda, a city bursting at the seams. Around half a million people lived in Angola's capital in 1975, when the Portuguese moved out. Now, with many forced into the city to escape the country's 27-year civil war, 5 million jostle for space, of whom three-quarters live in informal settlements with little or no documentation or land tenure. Angola has experienced fast economic growth , due to a booming oil and diamond trade. But the war left a ravaged infrastructure and weakened political and social institutions. Luanda is now one of the world's most expensive cities, yet an estimated two-thirds of the people living there exist on less than $2 a day. Since 2002, forced evictions and the ...
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Time-lapse map chronicles decades of global change as seen from space	10.5.2013	MSNBC
Time-lapse map chronicles decades of global change as seen from space
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UN stresses need to advance sustainable tourism (Cached)	9.5.2013	New Kerala: World News
New York, May 9 : The United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Wednesday encouraged governments, the tourism industry and local communities to work together to tackle the important challenge of urbanization and tourism to sustainable development.
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Beijing Puzzles Over Urban Growth	9.5.2013	Wall St. Journal: Asia
China's new leaders are counting on urbanization to remake the economy but have tried to limit the flow to the country's largest cities, fearing that a surge in migration could turn them into Latin American-style slums.
78 abandoned buildings demolished in Abu Dhabi (Cached)	4.5.2013	New Kerala: India News
Abu Dhabi, May 4 (IANS/WAM) The Municipality of Abu Dhabi City (ADM) has demolished 78 abandoned buildings as part of its campaign to rid the city of old and abandoned houses which distort its look.
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Ted Fishman: How China's economic rise changes life everywhere.	2.5.2013	Minnesota Public Radio: News
The author of "China, Inc." and "Shock of Gray" explains how the modernization and urbanization of China will influence the rest of the world's prosperity. Ted Fishman delivered the Bob and Kim Griffin "Building US-China Bridges Lecture" at the University of Minnesota's China Center, April 3, 2013.
China struggles to tap its shale gas	1.5.2013	Washington Post
BEIJING — In a remote corner of Sichuan with lush, terraced hillsides, oil exploration teams have been scaling cliffs to lay seismic charges and struggling to move heavy equipment along winding mountain ...
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It’s the Economy: Is it Crazy to Think We Can Eradicate Poverty?	30.4.2013	NY Times: Magazine
It’s the Economy: Is it Crazy to Think We Can Eradicate Poverty?
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China media: Xinjiang arrests	30.4.2013	BBC South Asia
Media discuss the arrests in Xinjiang of more suspects said to be linked to violence last week in Kashgar that left 21 people dead.
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Africa can become global economic power: UN report (Cached)	24.4.2013	New Kerala: World News
United Nations, April 24 : Changes in world order since the turn of the century -- including greater political stability in Africa and a bumper crop of commodities -- if handled right, provide an opportunity for Africa to become "a global economic power", said a UN report.
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Bluebell woods under threat, experts warn	19.4.2013	Guardian: Environment
The sight of woodlands carpeted in blue petals may be denied to walkers within 20 years as the British landscape changes Bluebell woods are one of the magical events of an English spring, with their carpeting of blue petals and enchanting scent – but within 20 years this experience may be denied to future woodland ramblers, experts warned on Thursday. Mark Ballard, curator of the Forestry Commission's National Arboretum at Westonbirt, said: "Within the next two decades it will become much rarer for people to see a native bluebell wood. They are under threat and the British landscape, however beautiful, is changing." The blanket of intense blue flowers, with their distinctive perfume, has for centuries been a source of captivation for springtime wanderers in the countryside, but is under threat from pollution, the encroachment of urbanisation – and above all the invasion by non-native Spanish bluebell varieties, which are less colourful, less prolific in their flowering and lack the heady ...
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UN: Sustainable urban infrastructure key to economic growth (Cached)	18.4.2013	New Kerala: World News
New York, Apr 18 : Developing sustainable urban infrastructure benefits not just the environment, but can also boost economic growth and social stability, according to a United Nations report released Wednesday, which stresses the need to transition to resource-efficient technologies in cities, given scarce natural resources.
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Bengaluru rues rapid growth as India's IT hub \| Mark Tran	17.4.2013	The Guardian -- World Latest
Technology boom has brought higher incomes but slums proliferate and services are squeezed in crowded 'garden city' • Urbanisation can be 'force for good' Bengaluru was a lovely city until the IT crowd ruined it, so goes the joke. "The reason the IT sector came to the city was its reputation as a great city to live in," a resident told me on a recent visit. "Of course, technology created jobs, but the city has grown so fast and become too crowded." With an estimated population of 8.5 million in 2011, Bengaluru is India's third most populous city. It was the fastest-growing Indian metropolis after Delhi between 1991 and 2001, with a growth rate of 38% during the decade. Bengaluru, known as the garden city for its public parks , is still growing. Luxury towers in mid-construction are sprouting, with billboards advertising helipads for aspirational – and wealthy – tenants. The traffic is hellish as three-wheeler auto-taxis, cars and buses compete for space amid a cacophony of ...
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Urbanisation can be 'force for good' with better jobs and cheaper services	17.4.2013	The Guardian -- World Latest
World Bank economist says governments shouldn't fear rise of cities, but warns 'slum growth could overwhelm city growth' Urbanisation can accelerate progress towards the millennium development goals (MDGs), but careful planning is essential to prevent the growth of slums, pollution and crime that can derail achievements, according to a report card on the MDGs. In their annual progress report on the MDGs, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) focus on the positive effects of urbanisation. The report says urbanisation provides higher incomes than workers would earn on a farm and yields further opportunities to climb the income ladder. "Virtually no country has graduated to a high-income status without urbanising and urbanisation rates above 70% are typically found in high-income countries," said the report, which noted that urban poverty rates were relatively low and declining in all regions between 1990 and 2008. "Governments should not be afraid of ...
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UN forum calls on to improve conditions for urban poor (Cached)	16.4.2013	New Kerala: World News
New York, Apr 16 : A United Nations forum in Kenya Monday called on governments to improve living conditions for millions of people in urban areas across the world, stressing that they need to respond to the demands of young and poor citizens who make up a significant portion of city dwellers.
Global dengue infections 3 times more common than thought (Cached)	8.4.2013	New Kerala: World News
London, April 8 : The global burden of dengue infection is more than triple the current estimates from the World Health Organization, a multinational study including an Indian origin scientist has revealed.
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