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The Revenue Watch Institute today released its 2013 Resource Governance Index (RGI), which measures the transparency and accountability in oil, gas and mining sectors across 58 countries. The findings reveal that only 11 of the 58 countries assessed have satisfactory standards of transparency and accountability in oil, gas and mining. In the other 47 countries, [...]
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Some of these may be a slight exaggeration... 1. Bumper stickers trump road safety. 2. Your email inbox looks like this: 2. You prefer wristbands to bracelets. 4. LiveAid is your favorite concert of all time. (Bonus points if you were actually there) 5. You have 1 suit. And it's for lobby visits. Photo Credit: ONE.org [...]
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BBCNews: 'More transparency' needed in natural resource governance - According to The Revenue Watch Institute, more transparency is needed in how natural resources are managed around the world; 32 out of 58 countries do not meet "basic standards of resource governance". The report says revenue from oil, gas and minerals can create huge natural wealth, [...]
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Kids really, really need to start life with vitamin-rich foods if they want to grow up to be healthy, strong and productive adults. Roger Thurow shares the story of Harriet and her son Abraham. This post was originally published on The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting's website. A mother knows. "This child is brilliant," Harriet Okaka says [...]
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Top photo credit: fashionlovespeople ONE Mom community blogger Elizabeth Atalay of Documama.org shares some creative ways on how to wear the Genet scarf, our exclusive Mother's Day scarf made by fashionABLE. When my ONE fashionABLE Genet scarf arrived in the mail the other day (happy Mother's Day to me!), I knew exactly who to turn [...]
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WSJ: David Cameron: A British-American Tax and Trade Agenda - In advance of the G8 meeting in June, David Cameron wrote about the need to sweep away trade bureaucracy. "An EU-U.S. deal is just one building block of a more dynamic world economy...if G-8 countries complete all of their current trade deals and those in [...]
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A few weeks ago, a few House Republicans introduced H.R. 1613, the innocuous sounding "Outer Continental Shelf Transboundary Hydrocarbons Agreement Act". A little over four pages long, H.R. 1613 is primarily designed to provide Congressional approval to a US-Mexico Transboundary Hydrocarbons Agreement (TBA) signed by both governments over a year ago.
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ONE is celebrating Children's Book Week with a focus on literature that centers on global issues. By couching "adult" material with friendly illustrations and dialogue, children's books explore topics previously deemed too scary, too serious or too difficult to understand. Now, children are learning about the world in a way that is safe but informative. We've included suggestions that we think are an educational and interesting way to learn about cultures and places that might be very different from the environment where you and your family live. So get to it and see if your local library has a copy of the books below!
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ONE's Global Policy Director Ben Leo wrote this article for the Global Public Square on CNN World. Read the original piece here. GPS recently published a thoughtful piece on how global poverty rates are falling fast. It argued that one country in particular is almost solely responsible for this dramatic trend: China. Meanwhile, it said [...]
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AFP: G8 told to be tough on those bleeding Africa - Kofi Annan recommended that G8 leaders back new rules on disclosure of company ownership and simultaneously crackdown on tax havens when they gather for the June summit in Northern Ireland. "In many African countries natural resource revenues are widening the gap between the rich [...]
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