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Singapore’s government, known to be meticulous planners, have responded to the index’s results, which they say are “biased against import-dependent, land-scarce, densely populated countries such as Singapore,” which by their nature and geographic location must rely heavily on imported resources like food and gas.

“As a city-state, it would have been more relevant if Singapore was benchmarked against other cities, which typically are also import-dependent for energy, food and water, rather than countries,” said a spokesperson from the country’s Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources.

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For some, the international aid program should be a matter of pure altruism, driven solely by the development objectives of poor countries. Commercial objectives, furthering the interests of Australian business, would be a serious distortion of the proper purpose of aid. For others, the commercial motivation is an uncomfortable truth which might be used to justify an increased budget allocation but should never be acknowledged in public.

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In the Commons, (David Cameron's) senior Conservative Party colleague and a contender for the party leadership David Davis called for him to pull his full weight to get India to change its mind pointing out that “we give aid to India many times more than what France gives.”

Ah, so that's what foreign aid is for — to subsidise the marketing efforts of local arms merchants. Really, how could the Indians have been so ungrateful?

A related question: if India can afford £7 billion worth of jet fighters, is Britain's foreign aid actually supplementing the Indian Government's efforts to help the poor, or just substituting for it?

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The University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit, target of "ClimateGate", has released nearly all its remaining data on temperature measurements following a freedom of information bid.

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The GDP has come under scrutiny lately. Not that it isn’t a useful economic indicator; it’s just that it doesn’t always give a complete picture of how a country’s economy affects the average citizen. If income inequality is high, a rocketing GDP can mean very little to the large part of the population left behind.
That’s why the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) developed the Your Better Life Index, an attempt to shed light on what average citizens really care about. The study examined 34 countries in 11 different categories: housing, income, jobs, community, education, environment, governance, health, life satisfaction, safety and work-life balance. A little hippy-ish? It might seem so at first, but who can honestly say that all of those categories aren’t, at least in some way, important to them.

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POSTED BY ROGER PIELKE, JR. AT 2/17/2011 12:57:00 PM

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