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Relaxed trade rules boost African development, study finds

Other Sciences / Other

created Jan 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Often thought to be hobbled by corruption, poor infrastructure and a weak financial system, African exporters rose to the opportunities presented by a U.S. trade liberalization policy, a recent University ...





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Briefs: Telecom reform would open Canada market

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created Mar 23, 2006 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Proposals to reform Canada's telecom market would make it easier for multinational telcos to challenge domestic providers.


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Facebook outlines new privacy policy

Technology / Internet

created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Facebook outlined changes to its privacy policy on Thursday and asked for feedback from the social network's more than 300 million users.


Africa world's fastest growing mobile phone market

Africa world's fastest growing mobile phone market

Technology / Telecom

created Oct 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Mobile phone subscriptions in Africa have defied the world economic crisis by growing faster than in any other region of the world since 2003, according to a United Nations report published ...


Rite Aid alters flu-shot policy for pregnant women

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created Oct 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- The nation's third-largest drugstore chain is no longer making pregnant women show a prescription to get a flu shot.


'Perspectives on Energy Policy' report now available

Technology / Energy

created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The United States should create a high-level independent council to analyze and communicate critical issues to energy policymakers and the public, a group of 27 leaders in academia, government, and the private sector recommends ...


10 years after: Promised reform in South African telecommunications fails

Technology / Telecom

created Aug 14, 2007 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

The end of apartheid in South Africa in 1994 brought the African National Congress to political power along with a mandate for reform of nearly all the nation’s institutions, including the telecommunications sector. But ...


India's telecom sees more liberalization

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created Nov 11, 2005 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

In a fresh dose of liberalization, India yesterday announced a slew of relaxations in its telecom rules, which not only allows more players -- both local and foreign -- to enter the country's burgeoning telecom sector, but ...


New CReAM research on the factors that shape individual attitudes towards migration policy

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A new research paper from CReAM (Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration at UCL) investigates the factors which determine individual attitudes towards migration policy.


Feds to issue new medical marijuana policy (AP)

Feds to stop prosecuting medical marijuana users (Update)

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (11) | comments 2

(AP) -- Pot-smoking patients or their sanctioned suppliers should not be targeted for federal prosecution in states that allow medical marijuana, prosecutors were told Monday in a new policy memo issued by ...


US asthma researchers more open than UK scientists to the inclusion of ethnic minorities

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created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New findings reveal a large gap between US and UK researchers in terms of policy, attitudes, practices and experiences in relation to including ethnic minorities in asthma research. The study, published this week in the open ...



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