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World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (2): 15–19.
Published: 01 June 2011
... a similar appeal to the country’s newly wealthy, calling on them to tone down conspicuous consumption. His plea was understandably met with derision. After all, then and now, Singh has been known for trumpeting the emergence of India as a consumer society. Under his government’s tenure, the construction...
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World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (2): 7–11.
Published: 01 June 2011
.... But if you want to change attitudes about consumption it won’t ever happen through shame or blame. The revolution must be irresistible. What audiences everywhere did love is the concept that Less is More. (Never mind that Less is Moral. How dreary.) Guide folks into a vision of their lives with less material...
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World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (3): 35–38.
Published: 01 September 2011
... innovation—that got us the [Nano],” he wrote in an early celebration of the car, “in spite of the dramatic increases in the price of raw materials.” Within that qualifier, however, lay a hint of innovation’s darker side, the never-ending rise in consumption in spite of—or rather, because of—breakthroughs...
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World Policy Journal (2015) 32 (3): 9–15.
Published: 01 September 2015
..., hens, geese, ducks, and guinea fowl. Photo: UGA College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences Cambodia’s Diet Evolution In Cambodia, diet preferences and foods available for consumption have changed drastically over the past 40 years. Since the Khmer Rouge era, when much...
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World Policy Journal (2015) 32 (2): 53–61.
Published: 01 June 2015
... of Senegal, whose average per capita daily energy consumption is barely one-40th that of the United States (see Chart). In the long run, such dichotomies are both unacceptable and destabilizing on a global scale. Renewables can make an important contribution toward the priority of cutting fossil fuel...
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World Policy Journal (2015) 32 (3): 33–40.
Published: 01 September 2015
... countries and the killing and consumption of whale meat in Japan, Norway, Iceland, and the Faroe Islands. One of the most interesting food clashes involves France and the eating and production of foie gras, literally fatty liver. Perhaps no country exemplifies the close relationship between food...
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World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (1): 19–24.
Published: 01 March 2011
... at a personal and a societal level,” says Bissell. Ram chose the name New Constructs because the old values of the Industrial Age gave us attitudes—towards success, learning, work, consumption, wellness, and governance—that are deeply flawed. Take success. It need not be limited, New Constructs members...
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World Policy Journal (2005) 21 (4): 29–37.
Published: 01 December 2005
... more clothing and radios third country while exporting clothing and for domestic consumption and export, radios to both countries. As participating and it should import more fruits and countries make progress through cross­ Globalization and Its Contents...
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World Policy Journal (2015) 32 (3): 26–31.
Published: 01 September 2015
... of food produced across the globe was ultimately lost or wasted. Food loss focuses on the processes of producing, storing, and processing, whereas food waste refers to food that is fit for human consumption, but gets thrown out or neglected on a consumer level. In developed countries...
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World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (2): 3–6.
Published: 01 June 2011
... by the philosophical traditions of the indigenous people of those countries, calls for an end to over- consumption and a recognition of the finite limits imposed by nature on “limitless” growth, as an alternative based on human solidarity. Suma Qamaña is an attempt to reinvent governance systems and reduce...
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World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (2): 111–121.
Published: 01 June 2011
... service to the goal of reducing alcohol consumption, and has acknowledged that the government’s various measures have been ineffective—even conceding that the epidemic has become a “national catastrophe.” But the anemic government response suggests that the Medvedev-Putin government hardly sees alcoholism...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (1): 119–123.
Published: 01 March 2017
... or not goods and services are tainted with human trafficking, but also to act upon that knowledge. While consumers in many countries have some awareness of and interest in ethical consumption, this has not yet translated into widespread practice. And with growing income inequality across the world, many simply...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (2): 5–10.
Published: 01 June 2016
.... As coal consumption declines, clean energy technology develops, and steel and coal factories reduce their emissions, the government says the air will continue to improve. So far, hukou reform is not part of the Jing-Jin-Ji plan, and many question if the co-development project can be a success...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (3): 122.
Published: 01 September 2016
... perspective. But not all art for mass consumption supports the powerful. Translator and theater director Bryan Doerries explains how he uses ancient Greek tragedies to disrupt hierarchies, at least temporarily, and create a space for members of the military “to tell their truths of the experiences of war...
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World Policy Journal (2015) 32 (3): 16–17.
Published: 01 September 2015
... has quickly replaced the The Bahamian food consumption pattern incorporates large traditional diet of fish and vegetables with highly processed amounts of fat, processed sugar, and salt. Skyrocketing food imported food. In addition, many researchers believe that the island prices that limit...
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World Policy Journal (2000) 17 (3): 41–49.
Published: 01 September 2000
... the cost of capital was the onslaught of the recession. Moreover, cheap. Corporations reduced their invest­ the current unemployment rate adds to the ment, waiting for consumer demand to pick problem of low consumption. At slightly up. Now, however, corporate Japan is awak­ less than 5 percent...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (4): 112–118.
Published: 01 December 2017
... offered tastings to curious passersby. As the West warms to seaweed consumption, Zanzibari farmers are adapting to more immediate pressures. The path toward sustain ability, Msuya and Brummett agree, is reaching cooler waters and producing locally. “What I see is Zanzibar having its own seaweed...
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World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (2): 1–2.
Published: 01 June 2011
... developed—though still off-the-grid—wilderness of rural North Carolina, hoping to find a place “beyond the American dream.” As Powers and others in the West look for ways to reduce consumption and promote sustainability, many in the developing world are moving in the opposite direction, hoping to take...
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World Policy Journal (2002) 19 (2): 49–55.
Published: 01 June 2002
... is to In India, the shift in attitude promises drop from two-thirds to 40 percent, and do­ to be especially dramatic. Fifty years of mestic consumption will grow into a 60 Fabian socialism have made the nation one percent contributor to GDP. I think this is of 300 million insiders— the famous...
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World Policy Journal (2018) 35 (1): 115–117.
Published: 01 March 2018
... war, terror, or perilous living conditions can only expect hostility. By presenting hospitality as a product for consumption we have destroyed its very meaning; we have attached conditions to it that forever cut any links to conviviality, friendliness, generosity, or gracious amenability. What...