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Caroline Boin
For Caroline Boin's latest contributions to The Japan Times, see below:
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 11, 2011
Internet apps won't close jobs gap
America today is akin to the Ottoman Empire at the end of its days. Immensely important, commanding huge global influence, badly run and under mounting debt, it is not the leader of the world, but the sick man of it.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 20, 2010
Let the clean water flow
LONDON — The 18th annual World Water Day (March 22) offers the same old problems and rejects the practical solutions. On Monday, 1 billion people will, as usual, spend the day without clean water and a third of humanity without adequate sanitation. As usual, some 3.5 million men, women and children will die from related diseases this year. Yet many nongovernment organizations and politicians still prefer ideology to ideas, spurning what the private sector delivers to the world's poor.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 17, 2010
Stop turning cheap food into expensive fuel
LONDON — U.S. Department of Agriculture figures reveal that a quarter of U.S. cereals grown in 2009 went to biofuel, turning cheap food into expensive fuel. This pushes up food prices and damages the environment, yet President Barack Obama promised "continued investment in advanced biofuels" in his recent State of the Union address.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 14, 2009
Neither charity nor bulldozers prevent slums
LONDON — After treading the red carpet at the Oscars in Los Angeles in February, the child stars of "Slumdog Millionaire" are on the streets. Mumbai authorities have demolished their flimsy shelters only three months after promising them real houses.

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