IMF-MAGIC BULLETS

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Introduction of user fees and other cost recuperation trials could not salvage the situation. Projects like TEHIP (study into the causes of health system failure) prove that mere insertion of funds and more drugs can’t be a panacea. The State should focus on scaling up the general productivity of the health system. This warrants for a substantial investment in training and skill development of the public health workers. IMF’s magic bullets will not work here.

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Piracy calls the shots for Microsoft

Microsoft, the world’s largest computer software company,has announced plans to introduce
a Windows starterversion (only in India) priced at just Rs.1,000. The new Windows version will be available in English and is also being translated in Hindi, Tamil, Gujarati and Malayalam. The move is being prompted by increasing software piracy that makes soft-ware available at rock-bottom prices.Microsoft plans to counter this issue with this low-cost offering, which is being mooted as an attractive price strategy against pirated software. It’s worth noting that almost 73% of software sold in India is pirated.

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WESTERN SOCIETIES

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The real problem is not too much multiculturalism but too little. If the diversity now ghettoized on the margins of Western societies – geographically and psychologically – were truly allowed to migrate to the centers, it might infuse public life in the West with a powerful new humanism. If we had deeply multiethnic societies, rather than shallow multicultural ones, it would be much more difficult for politicians to sign deportation orders sending Algerian asylum seekers to torture, or to wage wars in which only the invaders’ dead are counted.

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HAWAIIAN CULTURE

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The Queen Liliuokalani Outrigger Canoe Race was initiated in 1972 as a training run for the longest canoe races, and coinciding with the then reigning monarch’s birthday, it came to be christened after her. Much before Copernicus attempted to enlighten the Europeans – who were worrying if their ships would tip over after a certain point – of the rotundity of the Earth, the Polynesians were cruising the Pacific in their voyaging canoes! Employed for fishing, and transportation, the outrigger canoes have carved their treasured niche in the Hawaiian culture.

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No Moses to move them out

Israel must give up control of sea and air space, apart from landAfter years of pushing forward, the Israelis have finally taken one small step back. This has come in the shape of Israeli settlers being evicted from Gaza by none other than Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, the man who had been an ardent advocate of settlement. Withdrawing the settlers is part of a plan agreed upon by United States, United Nations, Russia, European Union, and of course the Palestinians and Israelis.

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EXPTREME TERROR

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It has become an article of faith that Britain was vulnerable to terror because of its politically correct antiracism. Yet Osman’s comments suggest that what propelled at least some of the bombers was rage at what they saw as extreme racism. And what else can we call the belief – so prevalent we barely notice it – that American and European lives are worth more than the lives of Arabs and Muslims, so much more that their deaths in Iraq are not even counted?

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"CHINESE GOOGLE"

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The ‘Chinese Google’ even has the original search technology behemoth, Google, holding a 2.6% stake. Despite these gung-ho parameters, things are not so rosy. Last year the Chinese government came down heavily on cybercafés, fearing an unhealthy effect on the Chinese culture. The moot point being that the regulatory patterns and business climate are typically highly controlled. Even though official estimates on internet penetration claim that China is second only to USA, the fact is that China commands only 7.9% of web penetration, compared to 67% in USA. The problem gets compounded with credit cards the standard route through which web transactions are done. China has an abysmally low credit card penetration of just 3%; and almost unheard of internet gateways supporting secure transactions.

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From American pie to Chinese noodles

Structural issues in China can spell doom for new internet ventures

Internet has found a new El Dorado China which is attracting Internet moguls like Yahoo!, Ebay, Amazon.com and Google. Yahoo! has recently invested $1 billion in Alibaba.com the largest e-commerce web portal in China. Terry Semel, chairman of Yahoo!, is talking of “explosive Internet growth in China” driven by “search, commerce and communication.” Baidu.com the largest search engine in China bears further testimony. It traded at three times its offer price on the day it debuted at the stock market.

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