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		<title>Financial Innovation: What Is It Good For? Credit Default Swaps</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:28:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dean Baker
Center for Economic and Policy Research, CEPR
First Published on March 11, 2010
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In his survey of financial innovations over the last four decades Brookings economist Robert Litan bravely comes to the defense of credit default swaps (CDS), the instrument that gained so much notoriety with the collapse of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2009 Trade Deficit Reduction Masks Serious US Competitiveness Deficiencies</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:01:55 +0000</pubDate>
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Alan Tonelson
The details of the final 2009 trade figures hold two important lessons for both supporters and many opponents of current U.S. trade policies.  The first:  However critically important trade deficit reduction is, it’s just as important to do it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MEXICO: Consumers on the Offensive</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 01:56:15 +0000</pubDate>
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Emilio Godoy 
MEXICO CITY, Mar 13&#160; (IPS)&#160; &#8211; Mexican consumers are currently facing a combination of price rises, economic recession and lack of legal protection in the face of abuses committed by providers of goods and services. 
These problems will be the main points on the agenda of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>POLITICS-NIGERIA: In the Shadows of Men: Women&#8217;s Political Marginalisation</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 01:53:08 +0000</pubDate>
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Mustapha Muhammad 
KANO, Mar 12&#160; (IPS)&#160; &#8211; Ten years after Nigeria returned to civil rule women still play second fiddle in the male-dominated politics of Africa&#8217;s most populous nation, women politicians and activists say. 
Since this West African country of 140 million people broke from military rule and embraced [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BIODIVERSITY: Lucrative Shark Trade Under Scrutiny</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 01:51:01 +0000</pubDate>
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Matthew Berger 
WASHINGTON, Mar 12&#160; (IPS)&#160; &#8211; As climate change transforms the acidity and oxygen levels of the world&#8217;s waters with devastating effects for some marine species, others are facing an even more immediate threat from human consumption. 
To reverse that unsustainable trade, an unprecedented number of aquatic species [...]]]></description>
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		<title>KENYA: Proposed Constitutional Amendment Sets Back Women&#8217;s Rights</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 01:46:18 +0000</pubDate>
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Susan Anyangu-Amu 
NAIROBI, Mar 11&#160; (IPS)&#160; &#8211; Lillian Mutuku, a 34-year-old mother of three, describes her home in Katine area, in Kenya&#8217;s Eastern province Tala, as a harsh place to live. The soil is poor, she says, the sun beats down mercilessly and vegetation is sparse. 
”People here face [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RIGHTS: Guatemala, El Salvador Ordered to Heed Rulings</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 01:44:07 +0000</pubDate>
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Edgardo Ayala 
SAN SALVADOR, Mar 12&#160; (IPS)&#160; &#8211; Guatemala and El Salvador have a terrible record in terms of compliance with the recommendations and sentences handed down by the inter-American human rights bodies on cases involving appalling abuses like forced disappearance, torture and massacres committed during the armed conflicts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IRAQ:  Women Miss Saddam</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 01:41:04 +0000</pubDate>
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By Abdu Rahman and Dahr Jamail* 
BAGHDAD, Mar 12, 2010 (IPS) &#8211; Under Saddam Hussein, women in government got a year&#8217;s maternity leave; that is now cut to six months. Under the Personal Status Law in force since Jul. 14, 1958, when Iraqis overthrew the British-installed monarchy, Iraqi women [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CHINA:  Binge-drinking Culture Turning from Fun to Lethal</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 01:38:38 +0000</pubDate>
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By Mitch Moxley 
BEIJING, Mar 12, 2010 (IPS) &#8211; After Chen Lusheng, a police sergeant from the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen, died in December after an off-duty night of heavy drinking with local officials, his superiors tried to have him designated a &#34;martyr&#34; who &#34;died in the line [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EGYPT:  Population Growth Overtakes Literacy Rise</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 01:35:56 +0000</pubDate>
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By Cam McGrath 
LUXOR, Mar 12, 2010 (IPS) &#8211; Literacy programmes are teaching millions of Egyptians to read, but are struggling to keep up with the country&#8217;s high population growth. 
&#34;Egypt is one of the most challenging countries for any literacy programme,&#34; a literacy programme administrator at Catholic relief [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RIGHTS: U.S. Concerned Over Curbs on NGOs, Press, Internet</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 01:32:58 +0000</pubDate>
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Jim Lobe* 
WASHINGTON, Mar 11&#160; (IPS)&#160; &#8211; Releasing its annual report on the state of human rights around the world, the U.S. State Department Thursday said it was increasingly concerned about curbs imposed by foreign governments on civil society groups, the press, and Internet use. 
”We find ourselves in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE MAOIST INSURGENCY IN INDIA</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:46:47 +0000</pubDate>
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B.RAMAN 
Given below are my replies to a set of questions on the Maoist insurgency in India e-mailed to me by a journalist of a Brazilian online journal: 
1 Who are the Maoists in India nowadays? 
The Maoists are the cadres of the Communist Party of India&#160; (Maoist), who are fighting [...]]]></description>
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