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		<title>Dresden: Floodwaters Again Threaten City</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2013 01:54:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The seemingly never-ending rain at the end of May 2013 and in the first days of June has swollen rivers in southern and eastern Germany, as well as in the neighbouring Czech Republic and Poland. Eleven years after the centennial flood in 2002, the people of Dresden once again had to fight the rising waters [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Urban Mobility: What Can Latin America Learn from East Asia?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Jun 2013 21:16:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The cities of Latin America have much in common with the sprawling urban centres of the Far East, despite being two very different worlds. In terms of mobility, there is a lot to be learned: do we follow the example of Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam, where more than 90 percent of daily trips [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Natural Capital Valuation Viewed from an African Context</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jun 2013 01:36:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The lack of accurate natural capital valuation of land combined with large-scale foreign investment into land has recently triggered contestation and social unrest, particularly within the African context. One example is the growing tension between stakeholders and investment companies in Sierra Leone. A plantation investor compensated farmers $5/ha/year for the use of their land under [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Highlights from 2012 E-Waste Academy in Ghana</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 May 2013 03:40:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The E-waste Academy (EWA) is a pioneering research concept that fosters multi-stakeholder partnerships and collaboration on e-waste policy and management. The Academy aims to explore the e-waste issue from many perspectives, rather than through the lens of a specific discipline. By striving to be the leading forum available for stakeholders involved in e-waste system design, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aid to Agriculture in Mozambique</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 May 2013 02:43:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The crucial role of agriculture in the sustainable development of sub-Saharan Africa is now widely recognized. Mozambique is illustrative of why growth in this sector is so important. Despite many years of high GDP growth rates, the number of people living in poverty has not declined at all. The key reason for this is that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peace Support: A New Concept for UN Peacekeeping?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 May 2013 04:29:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers is observed each year on 29 May to pay tribute to those who have lost their lives in the line of service as UN “Blue Helmets” and to thank those currently serving in that role. In response to the 2013 theme of “UN Peacekeeping: Adapting to New Challenges”, UNU-ISP intern [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Solving Africa&#8217;s Growth Puzzles</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 May 2013 00:45:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the video below, Andy McKay, professor of development economics at the University of Sussex, discusses the motivating factors behind UNU-WIDER’s Growth and Poverty Project (GAPP), which re-examines Africa’s growth, poverty and inequality trends. While the growth rates in the continent have been much better over the last 15 years than previously, this story hides [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome to TICAD Week on unu.edu</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 May 2013 02:37:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[UPDATE: Today (3 June) marks the end of TICAD Week on unu.edu. ♦ ♦ ♦ This week, to commemorate the fifth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (1–3 June 2013), the unu.edu front page is focusing on UNU’s work in Africa. About TICAD First, some background for those not familiar with the quinquennial Tokyo International Conference on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Studying the Role of Vulnerability and Resilience in Disaster Risk Management</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 17:48:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The concept of human security focuses on threats that endanger the lives and livelihoods of individuals and communities. Due to the increasing magnitude and frequency of extreme environmental events like floods, landslides and drought, research interest has intensified regarding the level of risk that these events pose, as well as on the vulnerability and response [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Growth for Low-Income Countries?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 18:48:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bill</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Even the most optimistic analyses accept that many low-income countries (LICs) will remain low income for some time to come. Consequently, when assessing the policy options available to LICs, it is important to take a long-term view. In the WIDER Working Paper “Aid, Fiscal Policy, Climate Change, and Growth”, David Bevan highlights some important considerations [...]]]></description>
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