Global uncertainty has lowered the outlook for diamonds, which account for 80% of Botswana’s exports and a third of its government revenue.

Roraima also reflected, in a particularly acute form, the general dilemma shared by all of Brazil’s Amazon states. It has abundant natural wealth – fertile land, plentiful water and rich deposits of gold, diamonds and other valuable minerals – but its ability to take advantage of this is limited. More perhaps than anywhere else in Brazil, businesse

This new age of globalization, like the past ages, will create new patterns of global economic activity, jobs, lifestyles, and geopolitics. This new age arrives together with another fundamental development: a human-caused ecological crisis hitting the planet. The dramatic successes of globalization during the past two centuries have sown the seeds

If Range could get what they wanted from others, the company might not need their land. So, reluctantly, she signed. By 5:00 p.m., they were back in the freezing parking lot, unsure they’d done the right thing.