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By Fredrick Azubuike Obi, Director of Administration, Nigerian Institute of Medical Research
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Thursday, July 10, 2003 |
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Obi discusses introduces the Human Development Index (HDI): 1) leading a long and healthy life; 2) acquisition of knowledge; and 3) access to resources needed for a decent living standard. He notes correlations between literacy and the eradication of poverty and between development and human freedom, i.e., countries that have a high HDI also have a High Freedom Index (HFI). |
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By Steingrimur Hermannsson, Former Prime Minister of Iceland
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Monday, February 18, 2002 |
“Economic Globalization and Sustainable Development”
Steingrimur Hermannsson
Prime Minister of Iceland (1887, 18811)
Delivered at Assembly 2002, “Establishing a Culture of Peace: Worldviews, Institutions, Leadership, and Practice; The Search for Solutions to Critical Problems,” February 18, 2002
Hermannsson criticizes and cites examples of corporate investment in underdeveloped nations which has resulted in the stripping away of environmental resources. He contends that economic globalization has not been beneficial to these countries and proposes steps to be taken toward sustainable development.
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By H.E. Rodrigo Carazo, President, Republic of Costa Rica
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Monday, February 18, 2002 |
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Carazo criticizes the global economy which, he says, “fails … to provide a basic structure of equality and fairness” which generates “an apartheid which marginalizes the poor to one side” and “an increasingly smaller minority to the other.” He maintains that “the main objective of world peace” is to reach a sustainable arrangement whereby “wealth will be distributed with improved equality” so that the business community, the workers, and the state may become firm defenders of independence and sovereignty for all the people. |
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By H.E. Stanislav Shushkevich, Former President, Republic of Belarus
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Monday, February 18, 2002 |
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Shushevich sees the unequal distribution of wealth in today’s world as a root cause of anti—globalization sentiment and the rise of non-traditional forms of warfare such as terrorism. He calls for efforts to “distill the best of globalization,” to “avoid dividing society… into ‘we’ and ‘them’,” and to “subdue the roots of aggression within the human soul.” |
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