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A village well in Kenya is locked for <br>conservation purposes. Photo by <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/davida3/484971270/">Davida <br>De La Harpe</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

JAN 15, 2008 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: In the Trenches for Clean Water

Water is poised to be the most baffling challenge of the 21st century. A Kenyan women's group is digging trenches to show how leadership and ...

Pro-Bhutto graffiti in San Francisco. <br>Photo by <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/dav/2150774458/">Dav Yaginuma</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

JAN 9, 2008 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Pakistan's Simmering Unrest

Since taking power in a 1999 military coup, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has struggled with the same question as his predecessors: How to keep a tangled ...

Antarctica 2001, Photo by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pathfinderlinden/160632839/" target=_blank>Pathfinder Linden</a> at Flickr

JAN 8, 2008 Article

Can Antarctica Be Preserved?

Antarctica is unique in that it has no governing body, no electorate (or citizens), and no permanent human inhabitants. One of the greatest ethical dilemmas ...

Photo by <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/anitzsche/263717813/">N_Creatures</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/deed.en-us">CC</a>).

JAN 4, 2008 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: Cooperative Energy Security for Sustainable Development

Cooperative energy security for sustainable development implies a long-term balancing of energy, environment, and economic development. Only a strategic triad of publics, governments, and industry ...

Carmen Duran assembled television <BR>components for Sanyo until her job was <BR>moved to Indonesia.

DEC 23, 2007 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Maquilapolis: City of Factories

What is the human price of industrialization and globalization? Maquilapolis: City of Factories highlights what happens when capital comes to town and when it flies ...

Coffee beans before and after roasting. <br>Photo by <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/akatayama/84707813/">cgfan</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

DEC 22, 2007 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Black Gold Shows Bitter Trade Problems

Why can't Africa access trade as a tool to generate wealth? Black Gold delves into the international coffee supply chain to find out where the ...

CREDIT: &copy; <a href="http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/feature/2009/09/03/world-bank-group-president-robert-b-zoellick-china-day-4">World Bank/Wu Zhiyi</a>.

DEC 12, 2007 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Can "Responsible Stakeholder" Hold?

Two years ago, Robert Zoellick gave a celebrated speech that urged China to become a "responsible stakeholder" in the international system. This comment has come ...

CREDIT: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/spiderman/5510782796/">Frank Starmer</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

DEC 7, 2007 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Market Crash May Burst Chinese Bubble Mentality

As the world should have learned from the Enron scandal in the United States, audited returns and sky-high share prices do not good companies make. ...

CREDIT: <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/jonwiley/1883804747/in/set-72157602951336320/">Jon Wiley</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

DEC 4, 2007 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Trade Policy for Humanity

Devin Stewart talks with Susan Aaronson about her new book, "Trade Imbalance: The Struggle to Weigh Human Rights Concerns in Trade Policymaking," coauthored with Jamie ...

Map of Colombia

DEC 4, 2007 Article

A Human Rights Argument for the Colombia Free Trade Agreement

Many human rights and labor rights leaders argue that the U.S. should not reward Colombia with a permanent free trade agreement right now because ...