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We Win: Then What on Foreign Policy Whether progressives triumph in one or two houses of Congress tomorrow, they will immediately face tough questions about what to do next on the thorny foreign policy questions that have dominated the campaign. India's hungry capitalism A Punjabi friend, with some experience of living in England, describes India in the early years of the 21st century as a 'hungry country'. India's swelling middle classes are voracious consumers. But his expression refers not to the 47 Former Spanish Foreign Minister tells it like it is Former Spanish Foreign Minister Jaime Mayor, was certainly not very diplomatic or political this morning in talking about the upcoming Venezuelan elections. Mayor, who is in the country as part of an advanced team for the electoral Unintended Consequences of Foreign Aid William Easterly writes about the adverse impact of emergency food aid on indigenous farming. If every poor harvest results in an exogenous supply shock in commodities, the Publication: On Jurisdiction and the Recognition and Enforcement Schulze book Christian Schulze (University of South Africa) has published a mongraph: On Jurisdiction and the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Money Judgments (Unisa Press). It is the first book of its kind to cover African Gay penguins are no pushover Last February I reported on a project at Bremerhaven Zoo to mate a group of male penguins with four females who were flown in from Sweden to seduce them. There are queens among the King penguins too India mulls negative list of tax havens for foreign funds A negative list of tax havens - countries that levy very low or no tax - is being prepared in India to reduce the vulnerability of equity markets in the country to foreign funds, according to the finance ministry More talk, less ceremony Enough with the openness, already. Will European Union ministers please stop this experiment with public, televised meetings, and go back to stitching up new EU laws behind closed doors. Televised EU meetings mean little work gets done Meeting: Foreign Secretaries of Pakistan and India November 14, 2006. New Delhi, India How Borat won over America Judging by the queues snaking round US cinemas showing Sacha Baron Cohen’s faux documentary on its opening weekend, America's love-in with Borat has only just begun. Borat has taken America by storm. Despite the kind of breathless hype
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