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    <title>The Smartest Ways to Save the World</title>
    <description><![CDATA[If you had $75 billion to spend over the next four years and your goal was to advance human welfare, especially in the developing world, how could you get the most value for your money? An expert panel of economists, including four Nobel laureates, would tell you to invest mainly in nutrition and reduction of chronic disease.]]></description>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 11:30:17 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator>Bjørn Lomborg</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Hillary Clinton’s Asian Adventure</title>
    <description><![CDATA[On her recent trip to China, Bangladesh, and India, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was eager to trumpet America’s “New Silk Road” strategy, which she unveiled last September. But the Silk Road was a trade route, whereas knife-edge diplomacy dominated Clinton’s Asian tour.]]></description>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 10:20:08 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator>Jaswant Singh</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Hollande or Insurrection?</title>
    <description><![CDATA[For better or worse, Europe is now engaged in an revolt against the fiscal pact condemning EU member countries to austerity without growth. Will the election of François Hollande as French President shift Germany’s uncompromising stance?]]></description>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 10:10:07 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator>Zaki Laidi</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>The Diplomacy Option</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Those who call for a military solution to the problem of Iran’s nuclear aspirations, without first supporting diplomacy and economic sanctions, miss a key point: many countries will not support a military solution until other means of persuasion (and coercion) fail.]]></description>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 09:40:21 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator>Christopher R. Hill</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>The Death of Inflation Targeting</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Inflation targeting by central banks, a hugely popular monetary-policy anchor around the world, died in September 2008, when it became clear that those who had been relying on it had not paid enough attention to asset-price bubbles. But its death was never announced, owing to uncertainty over what should succeed it.]]></description>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 08:37:37 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator>Jeffrey Frankel</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Oil and Isolation</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Kenya’s government recently announced that oil had been discovered in the Lake Turkana basin, an isolated region whose people have long been the butt of other Kenyans' jokes. But the potential for conflict over oil exploration and extraction in the region is no laughing matter.]]></description>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 14:50:08 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator>Juliet Torome</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>America’s G-Zero Moment</title>
    <description><![CDATA[In advance of the upcoming G-8 summit, it is impossible to overlook the fact that, for the first time in seven decades, the US cannot drive the global agenda or provide leadership on all of today’s most pressing problems. Paradoxically, this new environment is less troublesome – and even ripe with new opportunities – for the US.]]></description>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 13:50:10 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator>Ian Bremmer</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Power to Asia’s Women</title>
    <description><![CDATA[From birth, girls in Asia face significant obstacles to fulfilling their human potential – especially their potential for leadership. It is time to remove the barriers: empowering Asia’s women will benefit them and enrich the entire region.]]></description>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 09:11:49 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator>Vishakha N. Desai, et al. </dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Rebalancing the Eurozone</title>
    <description><![CDATA[As long as the eurozone's internal divergence in unit labor costs persists, the euro crisis cannot be fully resolved, because current-account deficits and/or slow growth will continue to stalk the “south,” perpetuating worries about sovereign debt and commercial banks. But the burden of adjustment cannot rest solely on the south.]]></description>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 15:20:10 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator>Kemal Derviş</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>The Necessity of NATO</title>
    <description><![CDATA[After the Cold War, many assumed that NATO would fade away. But NATO has always been based on shared ideals, not common threats, and, at the Alliance's upcoming summit in Chicago, its members and partners will confirm that bond, even as they address today's most pressing security issues.]]></description>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 15:11:06 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator>Anders Fogh Rasmussen</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>The Myth of Chinese Meritocracy</title>
    <description><![CDATA[One enduring myth debunked by the fall Bo Xilai, the former Communist Party boss of Chongqing, is that the Party’s rule is based on meritocracy. Contrary to the prevailing Wetsern perception, China's government is riddled with clever apparatchiks like Bo who have acquired their positions through cheating, corruption, and patronage.]]></description>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 15:10:50 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator>Minxin Pei</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Back to Utopia?</title>
    <description><![CDATA[France's presidential election appears to herald European voters' turn away from charismatic leaders in favor of bland normalcy. But almost one-third of French voters supported extremist parties in the first round, and normalcy is the last thing that they want.]]></description>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 14:08:55 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator>Guy Sorman</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Doing Development Better</title>
    <description><![CDATA[The recent selection of Jim Yong Kim to lead the World Bank exposed a deep fissure within the field of development policy, because Kim and his rivals represented two dramatically different approaches. But there are signs that the rift between Kim's brand of bottom-up development and those who favor economy-wide reforms is narrowing.]]></description>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 13:10:18 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator>Dani Rodrik</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Is Europe on a Cross of Gold?</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Increasingly, one hears predictions that the euro will go the way of the gold standard in the 1930’s, and, increasingly, the reasoning behind such forecasts seems persuasive. But there are four reasons why the euro doomsayers may not be right.]]></description>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 12:32:32 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator>Barry Eichengreen</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Romney versus Obama</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Leadership theorists suggest that we should pay less attention to leaders’ policy promises than to their emotional intelligence – their self-mastery and ability to reach out to others. So, how do US President Barack Obama and his presumptive Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, measure up?]]></description>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 13:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator>Joseph S. Nye</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Shock-Proofing Asia’s Economies</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Rapid GDP growth, significant fiscal room for maneuver, and increasing economic cooperation make the Asia-Pacific region’s prospects for 2012 brighter than almost anywhere else. If its economies build resilience and pursue a sustainable pathway to shared prosperity, the region will thrive, despite sustained global uncertainty.]]></description>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator>Noeleen Heyzer</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Reinventing NATO</title>
    <description><![CDATA[The upcoming NATO summit in Chicago this May was initially viewed as a mere "progress report" on the programs that were agreed upon in Lisbon in 2010. But, in light of the political and economic events that have occurred since then, the Chicago summit will have to take steps towards reinventing NATO itself.]]></description>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator>Karl-Heinz Kamp</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>François Hollande Meets the World</title>
    <description><![CDATA[France's incoming president, François Hollande, is untested in foreign policy. But, as a committed internationalist whose top priority is Europe, he will opt for continuity with Nicolas Sarkozy's outgoing administration on almost every major issue, including close cooperation with the US.]]></description>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator>Noëlle Lenoir</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Giving the Well-Performing State Its Due</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Capitalism’s success depends not only on macroeconomic policy or economic indicators. As examples around the world show, it rests on a bedrock of good governance and the rule of law – in other words, a well-performing state.]]></description>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 14:44:13 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator>Ana Palacio</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>France Goes to Hollande</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Francois Hollande’s defeat of Nicolas Sarkozy is a challenge to France, to Europe, but most of all to Hollande. With a growth agenda needed to revive the EU economy, Hollande must convince Germany that its exclusive focus on austerity has put Europe on the wrong path.]]></description>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator>Michel Rocard, et al. </dc:creator>
	
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