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Interview with Charlotte Gallogly, President of the World Trade Center in Miami

09/09/2009

She is a successful businesswoman and entrepreneur who has directed a number of private sector investments in the real-estate area, from the development of mall shopping centres to mid-sized office buildings. As if this were not enough, she also founded the U.S. Latin Trade Magazine, and she is the President of World Trade Center Miami. She has played an important role in developing Miami as a trade hub for the Americas. She founded and directs the management of Miami’s…

Hunger Pains: the Impact of Trade on the Global Food Crisis

08/19/2009

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| Anglais/English/Inglés, Health and Well-Being

A collapsed government in Haiti, deadly rioting in Egypt and protests in at least 25 other countries—all resulting from the rising cost of food around the world. A food crisis has emerged rapidly in the last 18-36 months, a crisis quickly threatening to add an additional 100 million to the worlds already 850 million starving. “People are literally dying of hunger,” said Dr. Mohammed Daud Miraki, an expert in International Development and a hopeful in Afghanistan’s 2009 presidential elections….