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...upwardly mobile residents of Beijing and Bangalore. The percentage of Indonesia's population living below the poverty line in 1996 was 17.1%, according to the government. There was little improvement by July 2008, when 15.4% of the population lived in poverty. "Indonesia's potential is there," says Luiz de Mello, an economist at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris, "but they don't deliver...
...Indonesia is heading in the right direction, says the OECD's de Mello. "But what they need to understand is that the world is moving faster." Real progress can come only if there is a national consensus to make economic development a priority. And in the country's fractious political environment, not everyone is willing to take the politically uncomfortable steps to achieve high growth, such as scaling back labor rights and encouraging foreign investment...
Power is the author of Chasing the Flame: Sergio Vieira de Mello and the Fight to Save the World
...Michael Mello, a professor at Vermont Law School who has written extensively on the death penalty, chose an apt verb when he was reached for comment on the decision. "I'm still excavating the opinions," he said by e-mail. It was quite a pile to wade through. "But I think it's as confusing as the road map required through Furman," Mello continued, referring to the 1972 case - nine separate opinions making up the longest text in Court history - that began America's frustrating attempt to create a consistent, rational death penalty. When it comes to the death penalty...
...coming back. "We are still dealing with the fallout of 2003," says Guy Siri, a humanitarian coordinator with the U.N.'s mission in Iraq, referring to the bombing of the U.N. headquarters that claimed 22 lives, including the U.N. Secretary General's special representative to Iraq, Sergio Vieira de Mello. The following month, the U.N. withdrew from Iraq, returning only in August of 2004 in very small numbers...