26/10/2011
Human Wrongs Watch
By Holly Reed* – Think Africa Press
Approximately 160 million people live in Nigeria, making it the most populous country in Africa and the eighth most populous country in the world. Nigeria’s annual GDP per capita, however, is only about $1,100, placing its economic ranking squarely in the global bottom third.
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Nigeria is a global population leader but, oil wealth notwithstanding, it remains an economic laggard. Despite declining fertility, Nigeria’s population is expected to continue to grow to 210 million by 2025 and 289 million by 2050.
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26/10/2011
Human Wrongs Watch
By Raúl de Sagastizabal* – PoliticaPress
The turning point of the toxic asset crisis was the G-20 Summit in London on April 2009. The G-20 members reached that Summit under pressure from the banks, which threatened with mass bankruptcies and claimed billionaire bailouts on both sides of the Atlantic. The financial sector fed the fear and got what it wanted, despite being directly responsible for that catastrophe.
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After little over two years the European crisis is still on the skids, and the world waits for another G-20 Summit, this time at Cannes, to see whether the measures to reverse the trend are provided in this forum. The European leaders do not expect that much, just the support for emergency measures.
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26/10/2011
Human Wrongs Watch
By Eric Stoner* – WagingNonviolence
Since Adbusters original call to action in July—which asked “Are you ready for a Tahrir moment?”—organizers hoped Occupy Wall Street would be an American extension of the nonviolent movement that brought down Mubarak in Egypt earlier this year.
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Now the folks occupying Liberty Plaza and other public spaces across the country don’t have to wonder what the leaders of Egypt’s still ongoing revolution think about their growing movement.
Last week, Ahmed Maher, a founder of the April 6 Youth Movement, which was one of the key organizers of the uprising in Egypt, along with two other leading Egyptian activists, visited OccupyDC and the occupation of Freedom Plaza to show their solidarity and offer words of advice.
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