... . This is the smallest of the three major rain-forest areas, restricted to the equatorial belt of West Africa about 10deg. wide; outlying patches occur in East Africa. In past times rain forest was much more extensive in Africa, and its withdrawal has left relict patches of forest all the way to the Indian Ocean. At present, rain forest is much less extensive than ... . Turacos and honeyguides are more diverse in African rain forests than in any other bioclimatic zone and region. Chameleons, best represented in rain forests, are almost restricted to Africa. Some vertebrate groups with Sou...

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... globalisation qua economic liberalisation. They find most resonance in developing countries, and especially those states of Southeast Asia for whom recent economic crises have brought back shades of the north-south contest between the developed and developing world that dominated the international agenda in the 1970s but largely disappeared throughout the 1980s and 1990s. They represent one side of a long ... record on the alleviation of human suffering in the late twentieth century, notwithstanding remaining human hardship, was according to Harvard economist Richard Cooper, 'unambiguou...

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