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How subsidies helped Montreal become “the Hollywood of video games”
For decades, Montreal has used generous tax subsidies to boost its video game industry. The policy has succeeded, but the city may need to keep the subsidies in place to keep companies from leaving.
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Ecstasy as Zimbabwe’s Small-holder Farmers Secure European Pineapple Market
Harare, Zimbabwe, Jan 04 (IPS) – In her wildest dreams, smallholder farmer Sarudzai Sithole never imagined that her pineapples could someday stock the produce section of Europe’s finest supermarkets.
Goa, India, Jan 03
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2 years after the U.S. killed Iran’s Qasem Soleimani, tensions remain
NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly talks with Karim Sadjadpour, senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, about the impact of the U.S.’s assassination of Iranian Gen. Qasem Soleimani.
Once Tossed and Abused, Human Trafficking Survivor Finds Solace
Goa, India, Jan 03 (IPS) – For over two decades, Nina tossed around like a leaf in a storm. While a teenager, she was lured into the sex trade, and pimps kept a huge chunk of the money that she earned as a sex slave. Nina was often bruised. Once, she refused sex with a man who did not want to use a condom. He beat her so severely that she had found it difficult to breathe.