“A stable Iraq at peace with its neighbors will remain elusive until we improve both the security and the economic environment in Iraq.” EnvironmentEconomicSecurityIraqNeighborStableElusive Author:Tom Lantos
“What the new fertilizer technology has accomplished for the farmer is clear: more crop can be produced on less acreage than before. Since the cost of fertilizer, relative to the resultant gain in crop sales, is lower than that of any other economic input, and since the Land Bank pays the farmer for acreage not in crops, the new technology pays him well. The cost-in environmental degradation-is borne by his neighbors in town who find their water polluted. The new technology is an economic success-but only because it is an ecological failure.” WellsWaterPayTechnologyClearEconomicLandCostGainsTownsEnvironmentalNeighborAccomplishedFarmersRelativeCropsDegradationEcologicalNew TechnologyInputFertilizerEnvironmental DegradationEconomic Success Author:Barry Commoner
“Parents who are stressed or disturbed will have more difficulty in meeting their children's needs. Parents who have little support--from friends, relatives, neighbors, or the community--are more likely to be overburdened by the demands of their babies and to be unable to respond to them adequately. Parents who experience severe poverty or economic insecurity, who cannot satisfy their own basic needs, are likely to have difficulty in responding to their children's needs.” NeedsChildrenLittlesParentCommunityPovertySupportEconomicBabyDemandDifficultyMeetingsNeighborInsecuritySevereStressedDisturbedRespondingBasic Needs Author:Sheila Kamerman
“It's wrong to focus only on economic cooperation and then to hope that a sufficiently stable system will become democratic more or less by itself. The EU needs to urge its neighbors to pursue both economic stability and political modernization in equal measures.” NeedsPoliticalFocusEconomicEqualDemocraticNeighborPursueUrgesCooperationStabilityStableModernizationEconomic StabilityEconomic Cooperation Author:Alvaro de Vasconcelos