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VIDEO: Empowering women in rural India
2013-07-07 03:01:29| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Special banks are being set up to give loans to women who want to start up their own ventures in India, but many women still lack the necessary skills to run a business.
Population: Why Empowering Poor Women Is Good for the Planet
2013-04-19 07:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Time: Population used to be the environmental issue to end all environmental issuesand Paul Ehrlich was responsible. In 1968 Ehrlich, a demographer, and his wife Anne published The Population Bomb, which warned that overpopulation was going to turn the world into a Malthusian hellscape. The bookwhich was written partially at the suggestion of David Brower, then executive director of the Sierra Clubwas influential and popular, selling over two million copies. What it wasnt was rightthe Ehrlichs failed...