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Taken for a Ride - How transport leaves the poor behind

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Transport - The Facts

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Snail Fever

Bilharzia, or ‘snail fever’ is one of the infamous diseases of the tropics, affecting roughly 250 million people from China and the Philippines to Africa, the Middle East, Brazil and the Caribbean.

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Prize-winning anniversary

‘No-one will ever buy a magazine on world poverty’. So said the sceptics when New Internationalist was launched - 10 years ago this month.

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Taken for a Ride

Issue editor Dexter Tiranti looks at the contradiction between public need and private greed when travelling from A to B.

Breast is Best

‘At no time in history has such a rapid change in human behaviour been recorded as is the case with the recent decline in breast feeding in developing countries’ argues Dr. G.J. Ebrahim

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Chinese Puzzle

No-one here seems to know or care what it will be like to live in a society without brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles or cousins.

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French Aggro

For more than 73 years the Melanesian people of the group of Pacific islands known as the New Hebrides lived under a shared and shoddy Anglo-French rule.

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African Routes

Does Africa’s transport future lie with the motor vehicle? Maggie Black argues for the combustion engine.

Bankrupt Development

The Inter­national Monetary Fund, shy twin­brother of the World Bank and godfather to three generations of subservient Finance Ministers is being challenged to come clean or get out.

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The Flash and Curse of Manila Traffic

A Filipino jeepney driver talks about his life to Ruth Seitz.

From Nothing to Nowhere - The Transamazonian Highway

One of Brazil’s biggest development projects of the 1970s, Sue Branford examines the highway’s progress.

Shipping Costs!

Ernest Ostro looks at the world of maritime freight from the viewpoint of Third World exporters.

The Battle of Alexandra Parade

Freeway development resistance in Melbourne. By Bob Hawkins.

One Road for the Rich

Michael Hamer attacks motorway construction programmes which hit the already disadvantaged.

The Age of the Automobile

Illustrated poster by Ronald Cobb.

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Pedalling in Penang

Trishaw, drivers threatened by city planners. Peter Rimmer reports.

A Bicycle made for you

Ian Barwell outlines the case for bikes to be brought into the mainstream of traffic thinking.

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To Fetch and Carry

Third World transport planners have often been distracted by the Western world’s love affair with the car. John Howe explains.

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