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Tag Archives: India
Kyoto Protocol Goes Into Effect Without United States
The Kyoto Protocol went into effect on February 16, without the world’s largest generator of greenhouse gases, the United States. In addition, the protocol exempts large greenhouse gas generating countries such as China and India from its requirements. Under the … Continue reading
Tagged Australia, China, Global Warming, India, United States
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Developed Countries Should Lower Trade Barriers, Period
In the wake of the devastating tsunami that parts of Asia in December, the World Trade Organization’s Supachai Panitchpakdi urged developed nations to lower trade barriers with nations hit by the tsunami. How pathetic. The developed world should eliminate their … Continue reading
More than 170 Million Indian Children Receive Polio Vaccination
In what was billed as a major effort to eradicate polio from India, more than 170 million children under five were vaccinated against polio over a three day period earlier this month. Simultaneously, another 80 million children in 24 African … Continue reading
Tagged India, Polio
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Developing World Going Mobile
Mobile telephone services continues to route around damaged state-run landline systems in the developing world. In India, only 7 percent of the population has a telephone. But that has increased from 1 percent compared to a decade ago, thanks in … Continue reading
India On Pace to Become Most Populous Country
For World Population Day this month, a number of news outlets noted that India is currently on target to surpass China as the most populous country in the world by 2035. But a lot of the reporting typified the sort … Continue reading
Tagged China, India
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India Uses Low-Tech Method of Malaria Control: Fish that Eat Mosquitoes
An Indian malaria researcher recently reported on the success of initial pilot projects to use fish that eat mosquito larvae to control malaria. This is a traditional method that was commonly used before the introduction of DDT in the 1950s … Continue reading
Tagged India, Malaria, World Bank
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South Asian Nations Sign Free Trade Pact
In January, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka signed a free trade zone agreement that will start to bring trade barriers between those countries down beginning in 2006. The agreement calls on the most developed of these … Continue reading
Tagged Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
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India Blames UNICEF for Vitamin A Overdose Deaths
An Indian court ruled in September that the United Nations International Children’s Fund and the United Nations were jointly responsible for the deaths of more than 30 children in November 2001 and ordered the two agencies to pay compensation to … Continue reading
Tagged India, UNICEF
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Smoking Worsens TB Epidemics in Developing World
Is smoking a major contributing factor to high incidence of tuberculosis in the developing world? A study of tuberculosis sufferers in India suggests that it is. The BBC reports that researchers at the Epidemiological Research Center in Madras, India, calculated … Continue reading
Tagged India, Tuberculosis
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Indian Prime Minister Says Country Needs to Pay More Attention to HIV Crisis
Other than South Africa, no other country in the world has more people afflicted with HIV than India. Yet so far tackling the AIDS epidemic has not been a high priority in that country. At an AIDS conference featuring 1,000 … Continue reading
Tagged AIDS/HIV, India
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