...Nanjala Nyabola Kenya’s plan to build a coal-burning power plant on the doorstep of an historic island has sparked some of the country’s most intense environmental organizing in years, reports journalist Nanjala Nyabola. Activists say the plan, part of Kenya’s foreign-policy pivot to China, would...

... on April 30, 2003. The Road Map outlined steps to be taken by the parties. It was an ambitious plan that dealt with internal Palestinian security, humanitarian assistance, democratic reform, freedom of movement for Palestinians, Israeli military redeployment, and settlement freeze—all culminating...

...Karoline Kan Beijing is the cosmopolitan capital; Tianjin is an international harbor—but the surrounding Hebei province is mired in poverty. Beijing-based writer Karoline Kan outlines China’s plan to integrate these three areas, known collectively as Jing-Jin-Ji, and raise the living standards...

...Owen Hatherley The Northern Powerhouse is an ambitious-sounding plan to revitalize the north of England and create a unified region to rival London. Architectural critic and author Owen Hatherley, however, contends that the Conservative Party’s development strategy mistakenly treats the north...

.... But in such a poorly regulated environment, “clean” water is often dirty, putting millions at risk of falling ill. She puts forward a number of possible plans, including pani panchayats , or citizen-led water councils inspired by institutions in rural India. Copyright © 2016 World Policy Institute 2016 India...

... in an enclosed zone northeast of the city of Beersheba. Today, more than 270,000 Bedouin live in the Naqab region. Approximately half live in government-planned towns, and the other half reside in “unrecognized” villages. The Indigenous Arab Bedouin make up 31 percent of the entire population of the Naqab...

... an economic and architectural landscape built to disenfranchise and control indigenous populations. There is, undoubtedly, a direct link between this history and the state of Algiers today, but it cannot be simply drawn. Algérois urban planning has a conflicted legacy, one perpetuated by a post-independence...

... of Africa’s leading NGOs. Although redistribution and allocation of land for housing failed to yield the desired results, one initiative remains that could resolve Nigeria’s housing crisis—part two of El-Rufai’s housing plan, a land swap policy. Under this scheme, the government will grant land...

... they cause the Greek Cypriot side is itself now not received substantial support from their threatening to torpedo the Annan Plan for Turkish counterparts in Ankara: notably being insufficiently accommodating to its from Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, concerns. Specifically, the Greeks are now...

...—Soviet-style central planning—and suggests that each collapsed under the weight of its own inefficiency and inflexibility. All economies are mixed economies—there is a role for the market and a role for government. The question is not whether the government should play a role but when and how...

...James L. Creighton James L. Creighton, chief of staff at the EastWest Institute, served as Chief of Plans for ISAF Joint Command, Kabul and Commander, Combined Team Uruzgan in Afghanistan 2009-2011. A retired Army colonel, he served as Deputy Commander Second Infantry Division, Korea; Chief...

... 19, allies spent decades planning for witz.1 Campaign decisions are made in the jointly defending one another from an at­ Pentagon, not in Brussels. tack. Yet when the military operations in Where does the U.S. administration’s Afghanistan began, the White House essen­ new emphasis...

.... there is another Bush legacy, one that This is the new reality: development has to threatens to undercut development in the work from the bottom up. poorest, most vulnerable nations, with more Those who oppose advances in interna­ loss of goodwill for the United States. Four tional family planning, often...

.... Within two years, the Crystal Palace project had fallen apart. It turned out that ZhongRong had demanded to be given half of Crystal Palace Park (impossible), insisted on being exempt from planning rules (illegal), and refused to accept input on a business plan or contribute money to ease the local...

... defense is in its infant vanced development and flight testing of stages, and it will take a decade or more for all mobile-type ABMs (sea-based, air-based, the technology to mature. The only thing space-based, and mobile land-based); (3) pro­ pushing such deployment plans, which are hibits giving ABM...

... “Miracles" fell victim to benign (though ultimately When Mexican finance minister Jesus Silva damaging) neglect. Herzog announced in 1982 that his country It may be said without disrespect to could no longer pay its debt, he inaugurated Nicholas Brady that some of his plan’s suc­ the worst...

... characterizes Kennan as “brilliant” its elaboration in the "X ” article in Foreign and his famous telegram as “probably the Affairs of July 1947, Kennan also played a most important, and influential, message key role in drafting the Marshall Plan and ever sent to Washington by an American...

... real economic reckoning. It was aided by an exceptional amount of eec /eu financial aid, in amounts that exceeded even those Greece received from the post–World War II Marshall Plan. These funds were disbursed with the aim of narrowing the gap between Greece and the more developed EU member states...

... before the era of environmental impact reports, seriously affected biodiversity and forest cover by flooding large tracts of the rainforest for the purposes of constructing an artificial lake. A similar body of water, the Atlanta Reservoir, is likewise planned for the eastern span of the Nicaraguan Canal...