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What has development done for me? - Four decades in the life of the world
(開発とは何だったのか―世界の過去40年を振り返る)

【Agenda】
Stories making the news this month
6 Kenya: highly charged election
6 Syria’s diaspora doctors
7 Idle No More in Canada
7 Introducing Park Geun-hye
7 Joining the dots in Oz
8 India: enough is enough
8 Iraq: shields 10 years on
9 Chile’s Erin Brockovista
9 Britain: what IF?
PLUS: 40 years ago New Internationalist is born, Scratchy Lines by Simon Kneebone, and Reasons to be cheerful.


【Mixed Media】
28 Film reviews
Shell, directed by Scott Graham;
Lore, directed by Cate Shortland;
and Compliance directed by Craig Zobel.

29 Music reviews
Eu Preciso de um Liquidificador by Graveola; and Celebrating Subversion by The Anti-Capitalist Roadshow.

30 Book reviews
A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki;
China’s Urban Billion by Tom Miller;
Politics of Origin in Africa by Morten Boas and Kevin Dunn;
and The Sound of One Hand Killing by Teresa Solana.

31 Also out there - including Nick Cave;
the latest novel from Barbara Kingsolver; and stirring documentary Fire in the Blood.


【Analysis】
The Big Story - Development

10 A measure of progress
The founding editor of the New Internationalist, Peter Adamson, looks at how the world has changed since the magazine started ? and argues for a new push against inequality.

14 World Progress 1970-2010 - The Facts

16 Where are they now?
Revisiting some of the individuals who have featured in the magazine’s pages over the years:
Aminatou Haidar, from Western Sahara; Rigoberta Menchu, from Guatemala
Noushin Ahmadi Khorasani, from Iran; Mari Marcel Thekaekara, from India;
and Domitila Barrios de Chungara, from Bolivia.

20 Liberating the world from development
The idea of ’development’ was given a new lease of life by globalization but Wolfgang Sachs argues that it damages both people and the planet.

26 Millennium Development Goals
Eight thematic maps showing how the world is matching up to its 2015 targets.


【Regular Features】
4 Letters
Wealth is an attitude of mind; more on Monsanto; and I am a New Internationalist ? meet subscriber Sheila Tucker.

5 Letter from Botswana
Laughter and tolerance run dry in a land where HIV is still a swear word, says Wame Molefhe.

32 Country Profile: Egypt

38 And Finally
A civil rights activist since the 1960s, Angela Davis has no intention of slowing down now.
She tells Frank Barat what keeps her going.


【Feature】
34 Waiting for Chinggis
Tina Burrett and Christopher Simons travel to Mongolia, where the memory of a warrior-hero is inspiring a nomadic people to fight for their past and their future.