EDITORIAL:

Beyond aid dependency

ELISSA JOBSON
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INBOX:

Globalist: Aid or trade? Both are needed

HUMPHREY HAWKSLEY
Unforgiving and arid Karamoja in north-east Uganda is home to more than a million people...

Out of Africa: Tanzania and Julius Nyerere

CAMERON DUODU
Tanzania, celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, is a name that automatically summons great affection...

Vital Statistics: America still isn’t working

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Election Watch

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Energy Watch

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Japanese PM Noda sets a new agenda

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Nepal tries to move on from conflict

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Relentless drought ravaging Somalia

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GLOBAL INSIGHT: EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRIES

“We will not have succeeded until the citizens of resource-rich countries see real improvements in their lives”

CLARE SHORT
Recently appointed as chair of EITI after the retirement of its founder, Peter Eigen, Clare...

Still much dirt amid the sparkle

IAN SMILLIE
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Extracting openness and honesty

IAN GARY
Concern about the environmental impacts of the oil and mining industries has spread to the...

Tribal community takes on a global industry

PARVINDER SINGH
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Peru’s farmers at odds with foreign miners

RICHARD SYNGE
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DRC: land of commerce and controversy

GREGORY MTHEMBU-SALTER
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Calling a murky business to account

JEREMY WEATE
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Artisanal miners: vital but neglected

GAVIN HILSON
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GLOBAL INSIGHT: NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANISATIONS

International NGOs: a necessary good

DR HUGO SLIM
During the past 30 years, international NGOs have seen their operations and budgets swell, becoming...

“People think they are listening to the local community, but they’re not”

GEOFFREY DENNIS
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Lights, camera, public reaction

GLENDA COOPER
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Social networking

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SPOTLIGHT: AUSTRALIA

Stasis and change

GERMAINE GREER
Germaine Greer looks back over 30 years of economic and social change in her native...

Australia: A political fist-fight

MICHAEL PESCHARDT
The unpopular carbon emissions tax and a controversial migration policy have left Australia’s Labor government...

A two-speed economy

CHRIS PRITCHARD
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Battle against disadvantage and inequality

VICTORIA LAURIE
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“The most important thing is to get all your energy on to the road and on to the results board”

CADEL EVANS
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Sun, sea and summitry

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What lies beneath

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Gillard – “Australia’s stability depends on stability in Asia”

JULIA GILLARD
Julia Gillard faces controversy at home on two fronts – the planned introduction of a...
GLOBAL ARENA: TALKING POINTS

“Women’s engagement is smart economics”

MICHELLE BACHELET
Michelle Bachelet is a clear illustration that it is possible for women to do it...

The Responsibility to Protect: a mandate for international action

MONICA SERRANO
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The tangle of issues hindering a solution for Jammu-Kashmir

VICTORIA SCHOFIELD
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UK media ownership and reach

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Tate Modern embraces Africa

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Books – recent titles reviewed

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IN FOCUS: BARBADOS

Barbados: Polls and popularity

ALBERT BRANDFORD
The government’s handling of Barbados’s small, but successful, economy will be closely watched by voters...

Social partnership: Barbados’ saving grace

PETER LAURIE
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Poetry and performance

PHILIP NANTON
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IN FOCUS: NIGERIA

“I believe we can overcome our differences”

GOODLUCK EBELE JONATHAN
Africa’s most populous nation, Nigeria, is at a critical turning point. The newly elected administration...

Nigeria: New team in a hurry for change

ANTONY GOLDMAN
After April’s successful elections, President Goodluck Jonathan’s new cabinet is aware that it has a...

Ongoing bank shake-up

TUNDE OBADINA
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Getting the energy to flow

TUNDE OBADINA
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Fashola fashions a new Lagos

KAYE WHITEMAN
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Nollywood rises: Africa’s maverick cinema

JANE BRYCE
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COMMONWEALTH NETWORK: CHOGM 2011

A roadmap for change

SIR RONALD SANDERS
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An alternative agenda for CHOGM

Global asked leading figures in a number of prominent Commonwealth organisations what issues they would...

A clear statement of intent

DANNY SRISKANDARAJAH
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All talk no action?

JOANNA BENNETT
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A chance to be heard

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COMMONWEALTH NETWORK: COMMONWEALTH IN ACTION

From the Commonwealth Secretary-General

KAMALESH SHARMA
Commonwealth Heads of Government Meetings (CHOGMs) are always about ‘raising the bar’: lifting our sights,...

“The Commonwealth Foundation and civil society need to work more closely together to drive change from the bottom up”

SIMONE DE COMARMOND
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“People have a right to migrate”

P. J. PATTERSON
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Inspirational women

NICHOLAS MENSAH
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Too much, too young

ASHLEY JOHNSON
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Increased press freedom a possibility

TREVOR GRUNDY
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Three days of global Commons

ANDREW TUGGEY
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The Commonwealth Forestry Association

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Great oaks from little acorns grow

ALAN POTTINGER
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Capturing courage, commitment and change

ASHLEY JOHNSON
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Questions & Answers

RUTH FEUKOUA
Installation artist Ruth Feukoua is the first Cameroonian to win one of the coveted Commonwealth...