The group known as the V20 (for “Vulnerable 20 Group,” although it now includes 58 nations ) recently floated the idea of halting payments on their sovereign debt, in part because servicing those debts is now keeping them from building up funds to prepare for and respond to climate disasters. That’s a measure born out of desperation, Kate writes. “They’re all concerned about being the next Pakistan,” Kevin Gallagher, director of the Global Development Policy Center, told Kate.

By 1902 the population had reached 16,000, with 1,000 working in the refinery for Baron Rothschild 's Caspian and Black Sea Oil Company . [ 7 ] [ 8 ] In the late 1880s and after, more than 7,400 Doukhobor emigrants sailed for Canada from Batumi, after the government agreed to let them emigrate. Quakers and Tolstoyans aided in collecting funds for the relocation of the religious minority, which had come into conflict with the Imperial government over its refusal to serve in the military and...

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