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  • This house supports global tech awards and grants prioritizing frugal innovation over cutting-edge innovation

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    Frugal innovation is an approach to innovation that focuses on creating affordable, resource-efficient, accessible, and scalable products, services, or technologies. On the other hand, cutting-edge innovation refers to the most novel, advanced, and innovative tools, systems, or methods in a particular field.

    7th Bicol Debate Open 2025 · Round 4 · 2025-08-23

  • This House believes Zimbabwe was justified in implementing the Fast‑Track Land Reform Programme despite the imposition of ZDERA.

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    In 2000, Zimbabwe launched its Fast‑Track Land Reform Programme (FTLRP), under which land owned by white commercial farmers was seized and redistributed to Black Zimbabweans, often without compensation. The policy aimed to address colonial‑era land inequality, in which a small minority held most of the fertile farmland. In response, the United States enacted the Zimbabwe Democracy and Economic Recovery Act (ZDERA) of 2001. Under this law, the Government of Zimbabwe was barred from participating in programmes administered by the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

    Friday Night Debates 2025: An African Debate Super League · Power Pair 3 · 2025-08-22

  • This House believes that developing nations should adopt legislation similar to Canada’s "Building Canada Act".

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    The Building Canada Act (as part of Bill C-5: The One Canadian Economy Act), became law on June 26, 2025. It allows the federal government to designate and expedite “nation-building” projects like pipelines, ports, and highways. As well as, streamlines approvals by sidestepping existing laws such as the Environmental Protection Act and the Impact Assessment Act.

    Friday Night Debates 2025: An African Debate Super League · First Leg Round Robbin 2 · 2025-08-22

  • This house, as an developing country, would heavily subsidise it's "H-1B visa's"

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    The concept of a "H-1B visa" is a non-immigrant visa that allows employers to temporarily employ foreign workers in specialty occupations and professions such as IT, engineering, finance, medicine, architecture, and more. It may take on a different name, such as South Africa's "Critical Skill Visa" or Nigeria's "STR visa".

    Friday Night Debates 2025: An African Debate Super League · Power Pair 7 · 2025-08-22

  • This house regrets the recent rise of private credit

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    Private credit refers to lending by non-bank financial institutions (e.g., private equity firms, investment banks, and insurance and asset managers) most often to small and mid-sized businesses. Having seen explosive growth since 2020, private credit has become a competitive alternative to syndicated loans offered by traditional banks. The global private credit market is now estimated to be roughly $2 trillion in size.

    LUMS Intervarsity 2025 · Semifinals · 2025-08-19

  • This house supports the financialization of metropolitans in South-East Asian countries (e.g. Kuala Lumpur, HCMC, Bangkok)

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    The financialization of a city typically involves financial institutions—e.g. banks, investment firms, and real estate funds— expanding into key urban districts. This manifests in buying real estate in these districts for office buildings, listing in the municipality, expanding hiring and in many cases increasing investment into assets in the city.

    St Andrews pre-EUDC 2025 · Round 5 · 2025-08-13

  • This house believes that climate activists in vulnerable Philippine coastal and island communities (e.g., in Caramoan, Siargao, and the Lapu-Lapu Island) should prioritize evacuation and relocation efforts (e.g., securing climate refugee pathways, relocating communities and species, and preserving traditional fishing rights) over local adaptation strategies (e.g., constructing sea walls, land elevation, or lobbying for international climate policy reforms).

    Visayas Intervarsity 2025 · Grand Final · 2025-08-09

  • This house believes that development loans from international organizations should be conditioned on the country's compliance to their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs)

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    Countries under the Paris Agreement are required to create Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs). These documents are meant to represent the country's "highest possible ambitions" in relation to cutting down on Greenhouse Gas Emissions and limiting global warming. NDCs are given to the UNFCCC every five years, with succeeding iterations targeted to increase previous commitments. For the purposes of this debate, NDCs cannot be changed once they have been submitted to the UNFCCC.

    PKU Pro-Am 2025 · Round 2 · 2025-08-09

  • This House prefers corporate ownership of farming over collective farming in developing countries

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    Collective farming involves groups of farmers pooling land, labor, and resources to produce and share agricultural output, often organized as cooperatives or community-managed farms. Corporate ownership refers to large agribusinesses controlling land, farming operations, processing, and distribution with the goal of profit maximization.

    PKU Pro-Am 2025 · Round 4 · 2025-08-09

  • This house supports the increased presence of foreign private equity firms in Asian markets

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    "Private equity (PE) firms invest in businesses that are not publicly listed on a stock exchange, acquiring stakes in these companies with the goal of selling them for a profit in the future. In the past few years, Western PE firms have been increasingly active in Asia. In 2022, Blackstone announced plans to allocate more than 50 billion USD to Asian markets over the next decade, KKR increased its total stake in Vietnamese conglomerate Masan Group to 750 million dollars, and the American PE firm Carlyle Group acquired a controlling share worth 1 billion dollars in Rigaku, a Japanese scientific instruments maker."

    Mastermind Chronicles 2025 · Quarterfinals · 2025-08-08

  • This House Believes That the World Bank should lend African development loans in ADR.

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    For the purposes of this debate, African Drawing Rights (ADR) is a currency unit (or currency basket) whose value is calculated as a weighted average of five African currencies: 40% South African Rand, 25% Egyptian Pound, 15% Nigerian Naira, 10% Central African CFA Franc, and 10% West African CFA Franc. The worth of 1 ADR depends on how strong or weak these five African currencies are.

    Copenhagen European Universities Debating Championships 2025 · ESL Semifinals · 2025-08-03