The most potent threats to life on earth - global warming, health pandemics, poverty and armed conflict - could be ended by moves that would unlock $7 trillion - $7,000,000,000,000 (£3.9trn) - of previously untapped wealth, the United Nations claims today. The price? An admission that the nation-state is an old-fashioned concept that has no role to play in a modern globalised world where financial markets have to be harnessed rather than simply condemned.In a groundbreaking move, the UN Development Programme (UNDP) has drawn up a visionary proposal that has been endorsed by a range of figures including Gordon Brown, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Joseph Stiglitz, the Nobel Laureate.It says an unprecedented outbreak of co-operation between countries, applied through six specific financial tools, would slice through the Gordian knot of problems that have bedevilled the world for most of the last century....
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Editor - 00:08:00 01-30-06
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 MOD accused of hiding real cost of Iraq war |
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Editor - 23:50:00 01-29-06
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| Direct Talks—U.S. Officials and Iraqi Insurgents |
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| UK troops in Iraq under threat once pullout begins |
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| Bush Will Use `Bully Pulpit' in Bid to Recover From 2005 Damage |
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| Abramoff attended White House parties |
| Former lobbyist Jack Abramoff visited the White House on at least a half-dozen social occasions, including Hanukkah celebrations, receptions and one meeting with Bush that included 20 other participants. Abramo.. full News |
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