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Govt proposes to amend two laws on land purchase and transfer
Mumbai :: India | 11 months ago
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He said that the government proposes to bring amendments to the Benami Transactions (Prohibitions of the Right to Recover Property) Act to monitor evasion of ceiling laws through fraudulent land transaction. Ramesh, who also holds the Department of
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Dambisa Moyo: 'The world will be drawn into a war for resources'
Lusaka :: Zambia | 11 months ago
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David Levene for the Guardian Massive geopolitical shifts seldom announce themselves with a bang. They tend instead to creep up slowly, until it's hard to be sure exactly when they began. I remember going to buy some steel about six years ago, and
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China crunch
Umm Durmān :: Sudan | 11 months ago
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John Gapper Dambisa Moyo, the Zambian-born economist, is thus tempting fate with her third book. Her argument that the world faces a Malthusian future of shortages of everything from water to food and metals such as copper comes as the copper price
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Rio+20: Jeffrey Sachs on how business destroyed democracy and virtuous life
New York City :: NY :: USA | 11 months ago
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Speaking at Rio+20, Jeffrey Sachs described how business has destroyed the US democratic system and created addiction to consumption. Photograph: Graeme Robertson Jeffrey Sachs, the economist and director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University
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China to 'maintain 8% growth for over 20 years'
Beijing :: China | 11 months ago
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China still enjoys huge development potential and will maintain the eight-percent growth rate for at least another 20 years, Justin Yifu Lin, former chief economist of the World Bank, said Monday. Lin made the remarks at a seminar at Peking
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Author-analyst Kotkin will address CMTA
Sacramento :: KY :: USA | 11 months ago
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The program, running from 9 a.m. to noon, will feature nationally known demographer, author and political analyst Joel Kotkin as keynote speaker...To register or obtain more information, visit www.cmta.net or call (916) 498-3330.
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In the eye of the storm
Oxford :: United Kingdom | 11 months ago
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Professor Richard Tol, concluded that up to 44pc of unemployed families with children and as many as 15pc of unemployed people without children would be better off on the dole than if they returned to work. May 22, only generated controversy when its
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Social Science 101: Three Ways to Relate to Other People
Fairfax :: VA :: USA | 11 months ago
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Kenneth Boulding described three basic ways in which a person, in the quest to get what he seeks, can approach other people. He can, as it were, say to them: (1) Do something nice for me, and I'll do something nice for you. (2) Do something nice for
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Economix Blog: Elinor Ostrom Reading List
Stockholm :: Sweden | 11 months ago
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Interviews with Professor Ostrom and her co-laureate, Oliver Williamson, from the Nobel Web site. A press release from Indiana University, where she taught for many years, about her death...A brief autobiography , including recollections of how she
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BJP seeks clarification on S&P's report
New Delhi :: India | 11 months ago
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After Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee rejected the Standard and Poor's report , the BJP today sought to know if he differed from his own chief economic advisor who has said the Indian economy is going through a "spiral of despair" and no solution
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