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...African Development Bank, rates the competitiveness of 29 African countries. Zimbabwe is described as suffering "a complete absence of property rights, high levels of corruption and a lack of evenhandedness [in government] dealings with the public." Nigeria is said to have "deteriorating institutions, including a serious security problem." South Africa, where 28% of firms see corruption as a "severe problem," is said to be hobbled by "the business costs of crime and violence and the unreliability of police services to protect from crime...
...against Aboriginal women and children in Queensland. But she fears that applying punitive welfare measures to everyone will imply all Aborigines are "irresponsible monsters, when there are many parents who are doing the right thing." She warns too that, without extensive rehabilitation services, banning alcohol will only shift the problem elsewhere. As in the N.T., many communities in her state have tried to stamp out alcohol abuse-only, she says, to see shanty drinking camps spring up on their fringes...
...With a federal election due this year, there's cynicism too about the timing of the strike. But many side with highly regarded Aboriginal leader Noel Pearson, who believes that whatever the government's motives, the problem is so bad, and has gone on for so long, that decisive action must be welcomed. There's detail still to come: no one can say yet how much the response will cost, or how long it will last. But many Australians, including the federal Opposition, which has offered bipartisan support, are willing to give the Prime Minister his head...
...army and police, but one long-time social worker there says she's seen no such panic. "They aren't frightened of the police and the army, and they're not running off to the sand hills," she says. "I don't think many women will have any problem with having extra police around." Rather, there's cautious optimism that this time, help might be coming. Pearson has called for skeptics to give the Howard intervention a chance. "I'm just amazed," he said, "that anybody would put the protection of children secondary to anything else...
...past few years have seen an improvement in Spanish-Moroccan relations; mainly because cooperation on economic development and immigration enforcement substituted the bitter territorial disputes. Immigration issues, however, pose a grave problem for both countries and can only be exacerbated by the planned tunnel. Illegal immigration woes from the English Channel tunnel—refugees jumping from bridges onto moving trains, Eurotunnel losing ?5 million per month as a result—do not bode well for the two countries that continuously experience waves of Moroccan refugees crossing the strait in search of a better life...