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Reducing timber loss through responsible management of the world’s forest stock has the power to reduce poverty, conflict, and greenhouse gases. This policy paper details efforts to date and provides comprehensive proposals for much needed action.
In Every Nation for Itself: Winners and Losers in a G-Zero World, World Policy Institute Senior Fellow Ian Bremmer illustrates a historic shift in the international system and the world economy—and an unprecedented moment of global uncertainty.
How the Wukan Revolt Could Change Chinese Politics
By Elizabeth Pond
The Arab Spring may be spreading to China after all. For the first time since the country became prosperous—and more than half a billion subsistence farmers were lifted out of abject poverty—critical peasant mass is colliding with an unpredictable shift to the next generation of Communist Party leaders.
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Occupy the World: Economic and Political Implications of Ongoing Protest Movements
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Elections in Tunisia Pose the Revolution's First Challenge
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by Martine Gozlan
TUNIS— It is the first challenge of the first Arab Revolution. On Sunday, October 23, Tunisians will elect their representatives for the Constituent Assembly, whose first task will be to draw up a future Constitution for the new Tunisia.
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