- Saskatchewan is ... Biotech
Central.
Team Saskatchewan considers its efforts a success in promoting the province's progress and potential in biotechnology at the recent BIO 2003 Conference and Trade Show in Washington, D.C. Team Saskatchewan's activities in Washington were highlighted by trade talks, discussions with federal Industry Minister Alan Rock, and the signing of a ......
- Global challenge
Global challenge The New Consumers: The Influence of Affluence on the Environment, by Norman Meyers and Jennifer Kent. Washington D. C. : Island Press/Shearwater Books, 2004, 199 pp. The past quarter century has witnessed a momentous global transformation occasioned by the rise of new economic powers. China has experienced the ......
- India's economy gets wired
HEADNOTE Amid a slowing industrial economy, India's emerging high-tech sectors are attracting foreign investment and driving economic growth. India's high-tech industry fed by increasing foreign investment, domestic mergers, and the rapid deployment of new technologies, is now driving the economy of this nation of one billion people. "The service sector, ......
- Editor's introduction
The theme of this issue is microfinance for housing, which is emerging as an important new field of endeavor worldwide. The editor of this issue is Dr. Sally Merrill, senior associate at The Urban Institute, a non-profit policy research organization in Washington, D.C. The case studies presented were originally part ......
- Editors' summary.
THE BROOKINGS PANEL ON Economic Activity held its seventy-sixth conference in Washington, D.C., on September 4 and 5, 2003. This issue of Brookings Papers on Economic Activity includes the papers and discussions presented at the conference. The first paper examines the Mexican economy since Mexico liberalized its financial markets and ......
- Inside ASIST
Special Interest Group/International Information Issues (SIG/III) of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST), announces its second international paper competition, following on the heels of recent success. The theme for this year's paper competition is "Information in a Networked World: The Developing World Perspective." Winners will be invited ......
- ORGANIC TEA FROM SOUTH INDIA.
Organic tea production has brought new success to an established company in the south of India. Dinshah Daruvala explains the work of the Bombay Burma Trading Corp. Lid. "Tea from South India? Is tea really grown in South India?" Questions many tea drinkers ask -- Indian tea, in the minds ......