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			<title>A template for success</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Sulaiman Al Fahim on why he thinks Dubai is still the city that others aspire to be.]]></description>
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			<title>Where have all the optimists gone?</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Damian Reilly's on the lookout for someone, anyone, who will tell him everything is going to turn out fine in 2010.]]></description>
			<category>Banking &amp; Finance | Comment</category>
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			<title>Short-term gain, long-term pain</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Thousands of Kuwaitis are taking gov't salaries for work they don’t do. They’ll suffer for it in the future, says Andrew White.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:24:38 +0400</pubDate>
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			<title>Barmy about Obama</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Joanne Bladd questions whether the global plaudits for US president are deserved.]]></description>
			<category>Politics &amp; Economics | Comment</category>
			<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 05:37:10 +0400</pubDate>
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			<title>The party's just beginning</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Leading UAE businessman Khalaf Al Habtoor on why he believes Dubai is back on the up.]]></description>
			<category>Politics &amp; Economics | Comment</category>
			<pubDate>Sun, 8 Nov 2009 08:06:29 +0400</pubDate>
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			<title>Bonus question</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[How are investment banking chiefs going to justify the massive bonuses they pay their staff this year?]]></description>
			<category>Politics &amp; Economics | Comment</category>
			<pubDate>Sun, 1 Nov 2009 04:00:00 +0400</pubDate>
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			<title>Executives in denial</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Ahmad Abuljobain on why business leaders need to change their mind-sets to survive the global crisis.]]></description>
			<category>Politics &amp; Economics | Comment</category>
			<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:31:40 +0400</pubDate>
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			<title>No drugs, no downturn</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Why Andrew White sees Colombia as one of the most interesting investment opportunities on the planet.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 5 Oct 2009 06:38:51 +0400</pubDate>
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			<title>Power play</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Is there a man on the planet more influential than media mogul Rupert Murdoch, asks Damian Reilly.]]></description>
			<category>Politics &amp; Economics | Comment</category>
			<pubDate>Thu, 1 Oct 2009 04:00:00 +0400</pubDate>
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			<title>Presidential control freaks ruin democracies</title>
			<link>http://www.arabianbusiness.com/568422-presidential-control-freaks-ruin-democracies</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Several Latin American leaders have contracted a potent virus called tyrannous flu, feels Alexandre Marinis.]]></description>
			<category>Politics &amp; Economics | Comment</category>
			<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 04:00:00 +0400</pubDate>
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			<title>Two reasons to be skeptical about 3.7 percent growth</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Champagne corks are probably popping at Liberal Democratic Party headquarters in Tokyo.]]></description>
			<category>Politics &amp; Economics | Comment</category>
			<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 04:00:00 +0400</pubDate>
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			<title>China and the US deficit</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[In buying US Treasury securities, China isn’t being altruistic. It’s acting in its self-interest, says Caroline Baum.]]></description>
			<category>Politics &amp; Economics | Comment</category>
			<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 04:00:00 +0400</pubDate>
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			<title>What can CEOs in the Gulf region learn from Obama’s ‘teachable moment’</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[In July, US president Barack Obama hosted professor Henry Louis Gates Jr and officer James Crowley at the White House for what the media labelled the “beer summit”.]]></description>
			<category>Politics &amp; Economics | Comment</category>
			<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 04:00:00 +0400</pubDate>
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			<title>Balancing act</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[GCC must not pamper its poor nor support capitalism that aids the rich and hurts the poor, says Rob Corder.]]></description>
			<category>Politics &amp; Economics | Comment</category>
			<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 16:55:06 +0400</pubDate>
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			<title>CEOs in the making</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Expert Dr Tommy Weir ponders whether the GCC can produce more business leaders.]]></description>
			<category>Politics &amp; Economics | Comment</category>
			<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 08:40:03 +0400</pubDate>
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			<title>Lifting the veil on Saudi’s mega-rich elite</title>
			<link>http://www.arabianbusiness.com/565179-lifting-the-veil-on-saudis-mega-rich-elite</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Andrew White describes the challenge of trying to compile a Saudi Rich List.]]></description>
			<category>Politics &amp; Economics | Comment</category>
			<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 07:20:22 +0400</pubDate>
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			<title>Murder Inc thrives due to Russian omerta</title>
			<link>http://www.arabianbusiness.com/564713-murder-inc-thrives-thanks-to-russian-omerta</link>
			<description><![CDATA[World gov'ts must shame Russia into stopping murders of human rights activists, says Celestine Bohlen.]]></description>
			<category>Politics &amp; Economics | Comment</category>
			<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 04:00:00 +0400</pubDate>
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			<title>One small step</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Cutting the cost of setting up a new company could be the start of something big, says Andy Sambidge.]]></description>
			<category>Politics &amp; Economics | Comment</category>
			<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 13:54:29 +0400</pubDate>
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			<title>Star attraction</title>
			<link>http://www.arabianbusiness.com/563315-space-tourism-for-headlines-satellites-for-profits</link>
			<description><![CDATA[A move to raise the UAE's satellite launching capability  would prove transformative, says Damian Reilly.]]></description>
			<category>Politics &amp; Economics | Comment</category>
			<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 04:00:00 +0400</pubDate>
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			<title>Goldman money phrase has rival in unlikely place</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Ten years from now, Nicholas Cashmore may enjoy notoriety for another addition to the investor lexicon, says William Pesek.]]></description>
			<category>Banking &amp; Finance | Comment</category>
			<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 04:00:00 +0400</pubDate>
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			<title>Teens, models, bailouts meet lucky leaders</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[If someone handed out a prize for the world's luckiest head of state, Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva should win it hands down. What about French president Nicolas Sarkozy, you say, who's married to the beautiful and talented Carla Bruni? Or how about Italy's Silvio Berlusconi, who parties with teenage girls? No, neither is as fortunate as Lula.]]></description>
			<category>Politics &amp; Economics | Comment</category>
			<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2009 04:00:00 +0400</pubDate>
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			<title>Women will help rebuild Iraq</title>
			<link>http://www.arabianbusiness.com/562001-women-will-help-rebuild-iraq</link>
			<description><![CDATA[At the start of this year, Iraqis voted in provincial elections to practice our role in democracy.  We Iraqis have paid bitterly for this democracy, and we are still paying for it.]]></description>
			<category>Politics &amp; Economics | Comment</category>
			<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2009 04:00:00 +0400</pubDate>
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			<title>Arguments that don't add up</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Opponents to Bahrain's labour reforms are headed for defeat, says Andrew White.]]></description>
			<category>Politics &amp; Economics | Comment</category>
			<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 12:55:42 +0400</pubDate>
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			<title>The problem with predictions</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Why forecasts for recovery should be tempered because the region has not been through this type of crisis before.]]></description>
			<category>Politics &amp; Economics | Comment</category>
			<pubDate>Sun, 5 Jul 2009 10:54:13 +0400</pubDate>
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			<title>Liberté, égalité, fraternité – but no burqa</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Joanne Bladd questions French President Sarkozy's motives for controversial speech.]]></description>
			<category>Politics &amp; Economics | Comment</category>
			<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 07:21:54 +0400</pubDate>
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			<title>Centralisation: The key to stagnation</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Ahmad Abuljobain argues the global crisis is a good thing, as it will make competitiveness more prevalent.]]></description>
			<category>Politics &amp; Economics | Comment</category>
			<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:53:34 +0400</pubDate>
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			<title>Arab education is failing the acid test</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[We need to provide the right education for the right employment opportunities, says Andrew White.]]></description>
			<category>Banking &amp; Finance | Comment</category>
			<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2009 04:00:00 +0400</pubDate>
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			<title>China’s stock market boom is as clear a bubble as you will find, the conventional wisdom says</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[When might it burst? Nobody knows if it will. The Shanghai Composite Index has surged 45 percent this year. Just because China has deep pockets in this time of global crisis doesn't mean its economic health supports this rally.]]></description>
			<category>Banking &amp; Finance | Comment</category>
			<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 04:00:00 +0400</pubDate>
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			<title>Using acid in Pakistan</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Terrorism on the subcontinent usually means bombs exploding or hotels burning. Yet alongside the brutal public terrorism that fills the television screens, there is an equally cruel form of terrorism that gets almost no attention and thrives as a result: flinging acid on a woman’s face to leave her hideously deformed.]]></description>
			<category>Politics &amp; Economics | Comment</category>
			<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 04:00:00 +0400</pubDate>
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			<title>Is the worst over?</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[How is it where you are? Do you see any positive signs yet? Are the green shoots of recovery beginning to spring up? asks Damian Reilly.]]></description>
			<category>Banking &amp; Finance | Comment</category>
			<pubDate>Sun, 7 Jun 2009 04:00:00 +0400</pubDate>
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			<title>Message in a bottle (from Mecca)</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Over 3,000 years ago, in a part of Arabia defined by inhospitable mountains and desert sands, a great city rose from the barren earth.]]></description>
			<category>Politics &amp; Economics | Comment</category>
			<pubDate>Thu, 4 Jun 2009 04:00:00 +0400</pubDate>
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