| Afghanistan Afghanistan
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| Communications in Afghanistan Communications in Afghanistan has dramatically increased since 2002, and has embarked on wireless companies, internet, radio stations and television channels. Afghan telecommunication companies, Afghan Wireless and Roshan, have boasted rapid increase in cellular phone usage in the last several years. There are three more companies now in the telecom business in Afghanistan, one is Areeba, 2nd Ts_2 and the other is Etisalat which were launched in 2007. Communications_in_Afghanistan
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| Sri Lanka Sri_Lanka
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| Famine A famine is a widespread shortage of food that may apply to any faunal species, which phenomenon is usually accompanied by regional malnutrition, starvation, epidemic, and increased mortality.Presently many famines are caused simply by imbalance of food production compared to the large populations of countries whose population exceeds the regional carrying capacity. Famine
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| Politics of Afghanistan In recent years the politics of Afghanistan have been dominated by the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan, by the NATO forces and the subsequent efforts to stabilise and democratise the country. The nation's new constitution has been adopted and an executive president democratically elected in 2004. Politics_of_Afghanistan
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| Hunger Hunger is a feeling experienced when one has a desire to eat. The often unpleasant feeling originates in the hypothalamus and is released through receptors in the liver. Although an average nourished individual can survive weeks without food intake, the sensation of hunger typically begins after a couple of hours without eating and is generally considered quite uncomfortable. Hunger
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| Information society An information society is a society in which the creation, distribution, diffusion, use, integration and manipulation of information as a significant economic, political, and cultural activity. The knowledge economy is its economic counterpart whereby wealth is created through the economic exploitation of understanding.Specific to this kind of society is the central position information technology has for production, economy, and society at large. Information_society
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| International Security Assistance Force International Security Assistance Force (10) (ISAF) is a NATO-led security and development mission in Afghanistan established by the United Nations Security Council on 20 December 2001 as envisaged by the Bonn Agreement. International_Security_Assistance_Force
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| E-Government e-Government (short for electronic government, also known as e-gov, digital government, online government or transformational government) is a diffused neologism used to refer to the use of information and communication technology to provide and improve government services, transactions and interactions with citizens, businesses, and other arms of government. E-Government
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| Food security Food security refers to the availability of food and one's access to it. A household is considered food secure when its occupants do not live in hunger or fear of starvation. According to the World Resources Institute, global per capita food production has been increasing substantially for the past several decades. Food_security
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| Weather satellite weather satellite is a type of satellite that is primarily used to monitor the weather and climate of the Earth. Satellites can be either polar orbiting, seeing the same swath of the Earth every 12 hours, or geostationary, hovering over the same spot on Earth by orbiting over the equator while moving at the speed of the Earth's rotation. Weather_satellite
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| World Summit on the Information Society World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) was a pair of United Nations-sponsored conferences about information, communication and, in broad terms, the information society that took place in 2003 in Geneva and in 2005 in Tunis. One of its chief aims was to bridge the so-called global digital divide separating rich countries from poor countries by spreading access to the Internet in the developing world. The conferences established 17 May as World Information Society Day. World_Summit_on_the_Information_Society
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| International development For other forms of development, see development (disambiguation).International development is a concept that lacks a universally accepted definition, but it is most used in a holistic and multi-disciplinary context of human development foreign aid, governance, healthcare, education, gender equality, disaster preparedness, infrastructure, economics, human rights, environment and issues associated with these. International_development
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| Grameen Bank Grameen_Bank
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| Insurgency insurgency is an armed rebellion against a constituted authority (for example an authority recognised as such by the United Nations) when those taking part in the rebellion are not recognised as belligerents. Not all rebellions are insurgencies, because a state of belligerency may exist between one or more sovereign states and rebel forces. Insurgency
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| Social change Talk:Social_change
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| War on Poverty Talk:War_on_Poverty
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| Tsunami warning system tsunami warning system (TWS) is a system to detect tsunamis and issue warnings to prevent loss of life and property. It consists of two equally important componentsThere are two distinct types of tsunami warning systemsinternational and regional. Both depend on the fact that, while tsunamis travel at between 500 and 1,000seismic waves travel with a typical speed of 4 Tsunami_warning_system
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| Development aid Development aid or development cooperation (also development assistance, technical assistance, international aid, overseas aid or foreign aid) is aid given by governments and other agencies to support the economic, social and political development of developing countries. humanitarian aid as being aimed at alleviating poverty in the long term, rather than alleviating suffering in the short term. The term development cooperation, which is used, for example, by the World Health Organisation (WHO) Development_aid
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| Development aid Talk:Development_aid
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