List of Environment articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Last Extinction?
Saving the planet, one species at a time.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 An Indigenous World
How native peoples can turn globalization to their advantage.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Ranking the Rich 2003
In a groundbreaking new ranking, FOREIGN POLICY teamed up with Center for Global Development to create the first annual CGD/FP Commitment to Development Index, which grades 21 rich nations on whether their aid, trade, migration, investment, peacekeeping, and environmental policies help or hurt poor nations. Find out why the Netherlands ranks first and why the world's two largest aid givers -- the United States and Japan -- finish last.
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The Market for Civil War
Ethnic tensions and ancient political feuds are not starting civil wars around the world. A groundbreaking new study of civil conflict over the last 40 years reveals that economic forces -- such as entrenched poverty and the trade in natural resources -- are the true culprits. The solution? Curb rebel financing, jump-start economic growth in vulnerable regions, and provide a robust military presence in nations emerging from conflict.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Pipe Dreams in Iraq
Why won't the U.S. occupation of Iraq transform global oil markets? Ask Saudi Arabia.
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The Morality of the Market
The market economy has triumphed virtually everywhere -- and has come to be reviled virtually everywhere. Critics, including more than a few economists, charge that capitalism creates gross inequality, inflicts environmental destruction, and undermines democracy. Nothing could be further from the truth. The market economy is the most just and humane economic system yet conceived.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 A Development Nightmare
What if poor nations actually caught up with rich ones?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Free-Range Markets
In poor countries, hunting endangered species may be the best way to save them.
