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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.
Age of Greed
WPI Senior Fellow Jeff Madrick describes the history of how greed has bred America’s economic ills over the last forty years, and of the men most responsible for them. He recounts the single-minded pursuit of huge personal wealth that has been on the rise in the United States since the 1970s, led by a few individuals who have argued that self-interest guides society more effectively than community concerns.
Silvana Paternostro
Senior Fellow
Expertise AIDS; Colombia; Cuba; Latin America; revolutionary movements; women's issues
Silvana Paternostro specializes in women's issues and has written extensively about Cuba, Central and South America, AIDS, revolutionary movements, and the intersection of literature, music, and other cultural forms with politics and economics. Her second book, My Colombian War: A Journey through the Country I Left Behind, which mixes memoir with history and reportage to tell the story of Colombia's forty-year-old civil war and uncover the truth about U.S involvement in the country, was published by Henry Holt in November 2007. She also is the author of In the Land of God and Man: Confronting Our Sexual Culture, which explores gender roles and the effect of government and religion on women's lives in Latin America and was short-listed for the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction. Her exposé of "re-virginization" centers in the United States appeared the book Se Habla Espanol: Voces Latinas en USA, the first anthology of new Latino voices in the United States published in Spanish. She is a contributing editor of Bomb magazine, a New York cultural magazine focusing on interviews between artists, writers, actors, directors, and musicians; and a frequent contributor to the New York Times Magazine, Newsweek, the Paris Review, the New Republic, and numerous other publications. In 1999 she was selected by Time/CNN as one of fifty Latin American Leaders for the New Millennium.
She has been a reporter and writer for various publications, including The Daily News, The Miami Herald, El Nuevo herald, Columbia Journalism Review, Spin, World Policy Journal, Cambio 16, The Westsider, and Chelsea Clinton News. Stringer for The New York Times, Mexico City (1991) Nicaragua, and Panama (1990); Production Assistant," Sunday Today," NBC News (1988);
Research Assistant for James S. Henry, former chief economist at McKinsey & Co. (1986-90); Ladenburg, Thalmann & Co., New York (1986-87); Banco del Istmo, Panama City (1984-86); Assistant to the Editor, La Prensa, Panama City (1982-84)
Honors & Affiliations
Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize from Duke University (July, 1997)
Education
M.I.A., International Media & Communications, School of International & Public Affairs, Columbia University
B.A. in Political Science, University of Michigan
Languages
Fluent Spanish, French and Italian
Contact paternostro@worldpolicy.org
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