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IMF’s Global economic prospects for 2009 (.pdf)
April 11
Climate Change Rises On World Bank Agenda
(Reuters Planet Ark) WASHINGTON - Climate change is now one of the World Bank’s top concerns because of its expected impact on health and economic growth in developing countries, the bank’s lead environmental economist said.
Latin […]

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Completion of the 670-mile fence on the US-Mexican border would harm endangered species and ‘pristine wildlife habitats’, say environmentalists
 
April 3 2008 (The Independent) The Bush administration is pushing ahead with what critics say is a final act of environmental vandalism in casting aside more than 30 laws and regulations to complete a 670-mile stretch […]

Flooding in eastern Bolivia.Credit:Franz Chávez/IPS
(IPS) SANTIAGO, Mar 13 (Tierramérica) - It is still difficult to predict the local impacts of the cyclic climate phenomenon known as La Niña, which has been responsible for catastrophic floods in Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru and Argentina, and — on the other extreme — severe drought in Chile.
The death toll […]

We welcome two new faces this week, guest experts, who bring knowledge of at least three extremely pertinent topics to the table.
Danny van Gelder will introduce his cousin, Mark Kruger, an economist by training, who serves as Minister Counselor/Head of Section (Economics and Finance) of the Canadian Embassy in Beijing and key link between the […]

In-depth coverage:
BBC Country profile and related news stories
New York Times World news about Cuba, including breaking news and archival articles
Reuters
wednesday-night.com
February 25
(NYT) HAVANA — Raúl Castro, who has labored in the shadow of his brother Fidel since the days of their revolution, became Cuba’s new president on Sunday, ending his brother’s 49-year rule and washing away […]

23 January 2008
We are delighted that at the suggestion of Consul General Mary Marshall, U.S. Ambassador David Wilkins will be joining us for (part of) this Wednesday Night’s Salon. Ambassador Wilkins’ visit is particularly timely given that the Republican Primary was held in his native South Carolina on Saturday, however, we understand that he […]

By Oscar Avila Chicago Tribune
December 21, 2007
Only 1 TV station survives to criticize, but for how long?
CARACAS, Venezuela - The reporters at Globovision, the only remaining broadcast television station routinely critical of the Venezuelan government, work behind a towering wall and barbed wire. Just in case.
Someone once threw an explosive device at […]

FREE TRADE IN WASHINGTON:
ALL POLITICS, ALL THE TIME
David T. Jones

If all politics are local, then in Washington, all trade is politics. Twenty years after the FTA and 15 years after the NAFTA, former US diplomat David Jones looks at the results and prospects for free trade from Washington, where lobbyists and […]

22 August 2007
As we prepare for #1329, we offer the following indispensable addition to the Wednesday Night lexicon:
The word outsight, defined as “A statement believed by the person who utters it to be an important or profound insight, but which is in fact regarded by its audience as so obvious or elementary that it […]

The North American Reality
Stephen Blank
August 9, 2007
In the heat of the summer, we have been washed over by a wave of blogs warning about plans afoot to create a North American Union or to build new gigantic new NAFTA superhighways across the US.
Alien invaders — a “Bushite” coup, announces one blog - will swarm across […]