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United Nations Development Programme: Key trends in global poverty and health
Source: JournalistsResource.orgRise of Muslim foreign fighters: Islam and the globalization of jihad
Source: JournalistsResource.orgIs there an Asian model of technological emergence?
Source: JournalistsResource.orgPublic attitudes toward immigration: Research review
Source: JournalistsResource.orgNew Left policies and Latin America: Research review and reading list
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Beginning in 1998, Latin America began taking a sharp turn to the political left with the election of Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez, Bolivia’s Evo Morales, Nicaragua’s Daniel Ortega, Brazil’s Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Argentina’s Néstor Carlos Kirchner, Ecuador’s Rafael Correa and Chile’s Ricardo Lagos, among others. Following Chavez’s death, a reassessment of the region’s recent social and economic past — and future prospects — has commenced among scholars and media members.
Conflict minerals and firms' ignorance over their supply chains
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The issue: Your smartphone or desktop computer is not built from scratch by Apple or Dell. It includes parts made by subcontractors. But one sole subcontractor does not make every chip inside; that task is handled by yet another subcontractor, who may buy the needed tantalum from still another supplier who may have purchased the tantalum ore from a militia leader who forces children to work in dangerous mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
Global land and water grabbing
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Economic development policy: Backgrounder and update on research trends, 2013
Source: JournalistsResource.orgMobile leapfrogging and digital divide policy
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