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Moreover, given that transaction costs often take a big slice of remittances, aid mechanisms could be used to create safe and cheap channels for financial flows, especially where private money cannot easily reach remote rural areas, as is often the case in Africa or Asia.
Sending money to some countries is now allowed only through formal banking channels, and this has created virtual monopolies while also preventing remittance money from reaching rural
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where banks don’t operate.
European leaders are already meeting with their Indian and Chinese counterparts to find
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where they can cooperate on developing clean energy and green infrastructure.
Massive investments will be made in these areas, and the European Central Bank, the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, and many other institutions are devising mechanisms to finance them.
New industries are springing up, at scale, in
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ranging from electrification and smart-grid design to electric vehicles, green construction and recycling technologies, and organic chemicals.
Globally, three-quarters of people living in extreme poverty are in rural
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and depend on agriculture and related activities for their livelihoods.
Even if we accept that Israel has a legitimate reason to shut down tunnels that are used to infiltrate Palestinian commandos into Israel, this does not explain why it is necessary to bomb schools, power plants, hospitals, mosques, and densely packed civilian
areas.
The official explanation is that Palestinian missiles are hidden in civilian
areas.
Nazi Germany tried to break British morale by blitzing large
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of London, Birmingham, and Coventry, among other places.
Putin will not be able to withstand mounting dissent from affluent urban
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and the country’s burgeoning middle class.
This would strengthen insurgent groups’ control over border areas, effectively creating a buffer state between Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Although a warming planet could boost agricultural output in a few areas, it will severely limit production, and possibly trigger prolonged food crises, throughout the rest of the region.
Cooperatives also help farmers manage the effects of climate change, by creating networks through which members can share knowledge about tricky adaptive strategies like switching from crops to fish or shrimp in saline-affected
areas.
In all
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the direction is toward even liberalization, but President Kim's path to liberalism is through a curious kind of social corporatism.
In Sunni eyes, the Shia not only dominate the oil-rich
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of Iran, Iraq, and the eastern region of Saudi Arabia, but are – through the actions of Hezbollah – attempting to usurp the role of “protector” of the central dream of all Arabs, the Palestinian cause.
The IMF provides countries with technical assistance in a wide range of areas: monetary policy, bank regulation, and fiscal consolidation.
The idea of collaboration only in
areas
of interest to China while neglecting issues of substance to India is untenable, even in the short term.
Its new databases will catalogue which policies countries have adopted to promote learning in each part of the education system, in
areas
ranging from teacher policies to student assessment to school financing mechanisms.
Imagine, in particular, that all girls are educated, with all the profound benefits that this would yield in the
areas
of population growth, health and welfare, poverty alleviation, human rights, and politics.
With more than 50% of the world’s population now living in urban
areas
– a share that is rising fast – the answer to this question will shape our collective future.
Street trees, research shows, can help reduce air pollution – the single biggest threat to human health, especially in urban areas, according to the World Health Organization – by filtering fine particulate matter, such as that emitted by internal-combustion engines.
But that makes them particularly effective as a targeted intervention – say, as a screen against a busy road or industrial area, or to protect vulnerable
areas
like schools and nursing homes.
That is why my organization, The Nature Conservancy, is working with other nonprofits, community organizers, and public-health researchers in Louisville, Kentucky, to plant more trees in
areas
with low canopy cover, and to conduct the first controlled trial of trees as a medical intervention.
Urban
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may also need well-designed, sustainably built infrastructure to manage air and water, and integrated clean-energy systems and efficient public-transit options to help reduce pollution and carbon emissions.
Yet none of them act on that principle in other
areas.
An analysis by Martha Mundy of the London School of Economics has found evidence that the coalition’s airstrikes are deliberately targeting food production and distribution in
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held by its opponents.
But there remain many
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in which further debate and choice are needed.
Since the creation of the Nobel prizes, more than 650 medals and diplomas have been given away in the original prize
areas.
Participants emphasized that changes would be needed in multiple areas, including improving the system of taxation and social insurance, further developing housing and the service economy, and eliminating a range of relative price distortions.
He has also diminished the foreign ministry’s stature by appointing a number of special envoys in key
areas.
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