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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2009
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NEWS ABOUT: Third World

Third World stories: 7 news summaries

(Newser) - The various sectors of the global economy have become so entwined with food production that prices are acting in a very “puzzling” manner, the Economist reports. Last year, the market responded rationally to the global food crisis of 2007-08, increasing production and thus lowering prices. But with another bumper... More »

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farming • developing countries • food prices • Third World • supply and demand • food production • global food crisis • cereals • yield

ANALYSIS

 Recession Cools 
 Worldwide Migration 


Jun 6, 09 2:51 PM CDT
(Newser) - Facing a tough job market, immigrants are returning home around the world, reversing historic migration patterns and giving up on income that once fed their families, the Wall Street Journal reports. With construction workers going back to Mexico and domestic servants to the Philippines, wealthy nations are also bound... More »

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immigration • migrant workers • migration • recession • migrant labor • Third World • wealthy • poor countries

OPINION

Ethical Gifts Ease Western Guilt, Not Third World Poverty

Condescending gifts will not eradicate poverty

Dec 25, 08 12:30 PM CST
(Newser) - The trend of giving ethical holiday gifts couldn't be more pompous, writes Nathalie Rothschild for Spiked. "Rather than lifting people out of poverty, Oxfam and the rest are helping to sustain underdevelopment," she argues. And occupying a higher level of condescension is the organization Animal Aid, which opposes... More »

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ethics • UNICEF • charity • poverty • OXFAM • Third World • presents • Animal Aid

(Newser) - Cancer will surpass heart disease as the world’s preeminent killer by 2010, Reuters reports. A WHO study concluded that cancer cases will double between 2000 and 2020, and almost triple by 2030, largely because of increased tobacco use in developing countries. In men, who are more likely to contract... More »

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cancer • United Nations • breast cancer • lung cancer • heart disease • smoking • World Health Organization • Third World • medical study

(Newser) - Rich nations are buying up farmland in developing countries and drawing the ire of some critics, the Guardian reports. One UN official said the purchases, designed as a hedge against food shortages, could put poor nations at risk of starving to feed the wealthy. In "this scramble for soil... More »

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food • Africa • globalization • farmland • Third World • food shortage • food security

 Scars of War Remain
 for Laotian Farmers 

Land littered with bombs makes subsistence farming a more dire proposition

Jun 11, 08 3:14 PM CDT
(Newser) - As if surviving as a farmer in the developing world wasn't hard enough, for those in Laos there is an extra—often deadly—complication. The US littered the Southeast Asian nation with 2 million tons of explosives during the Vietnam War, one-third of which remain precariously unexploded, and responsible for... More »

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farming • Laos • land mines • Third World


XO: Buy 1, a Kid Gets 1 Free

XO buyers will be asked to buy 2nd laptop for needy children

Sep 24, 07 6:23 AM CDT
(Newser) - Americans will be asked to buy XO laptops in pairs—one for themselves and one for a child in a developing nation. Organizers of the "One Laptop Per Child" program hope to distribute laptops to millions of Third World schoolchildren this way. The combined cost of the pair of... More »

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Brazil • MIT • Cambodia • Rwanda • XO • One Laptop Per Child • Nicholas Negroponte • Third World

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