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to How Fight Poverty: 8 Programs That Work - New York Times November 16, 2006 Talking Points How to Fight Poverty: 8 Programs That Work By TINA ROSENBERG Ask Americans whether they want to spend taxpayer money to educate girls abroad, and 80 percent say yes. Do they want to give food and medical assistance in poor countries? Eighty four percent do. Prevent and treat AIDS? That s 79 percent. But ask them whether they favor foreign aid, and only a bare majority does. This disconnect occurs because a lot of Americans are concerned about how foreign aid is spent. Most Americans think Washington should help the needy abroad. But they worry the money will be wasted. There are too many stories about taxpayer funds winding up in the Swiss bank accounts of dictators, financing dams and highways that never get built or paying exorbitant salaries to American consultants. Americans also wonder when they hear about how miserable life in some countries continues to be: why doesn t foreign aid seem to be doing any good? One reason is that not much money goes to combating that misery. When pollsters ask people in the United States to guess how much their government spends on foreign aid, the median response is 25 percent of the federal budget and Americans think that it should be 10 percent. The real number is less than 1 percent. And only a tiny percentage of that goes to fight poverty. That percentage was even smaller during the Cold War, when a large chunk of American foreign aid went into dictators pockets or to their helicopter fleets. Its purpose was not to help people, but to buy friends. But even today, 39 percent of the State Department's foreign aid budget goes to military aid, supporting congenial governments like Israel, Egypt, Jordan and Pakistan, and to fighting drugs. Of the money that is marked for development to help poor countries get richer a lot goes to programs to help a nation s central bank become more independent or to train congressional staff. This is important work, but it does not fight poverty. And a lot of what remains goes to help people in emergencies feeding the hungry after crop failures, or rebuilding after a tsunami. Not much is left for preventing crop failures in the first place. President Bush has proposed to give $23.7 billion in aid grants to poor countries in 2007. But even by the most generous calculations, only $3.7 billion is actually anti-poverty aid. If antipoverty efforts do not help as much as Americans would like, one reason is that their government is spending far less than they think it is. This is unfortunate because there are programs out there with a proven track record of working of lifting poor people out of poverty, and keeping them out some run by governments, some by charity groups, and a few by businesses. Here are some particularly effective ones. I. The Gold Standard: Universal Vaccination Universal vaccination is cost-effective foreign aid at its best. It is so successful, so widely considered essential, that many people today do not realize that it began only 20 years ago. When Unicef and the World Health Organization started a global effort to vaccinate children against common childhood diseases in 1985, they were met with widespread skepticism. Vaccination rates for children in many countries were appalling only 20 percent of the world's children in 1980 had gotten their third shot of D.P.T. (diphtheria, pertussis and tetanus) on time, the conventional measure of vaccine coverage. But the program has had stunning success. By 1990, 75 percent of children had completed their D.P.T. shots on time. Bangladesh went from 9 percent D.P.T. completion in 1987 to 98 percent five years later. Worldwide, children were being immunized against polio and measles as well. The logistics are heroic. Wars are routinely halted for inoculation campaigns. Entire countries get vaccinated in two days. Measles vaccines are successfully kept cold during day-long journeys by bicycle and canoe. A full course of immunization, including everything in the supply chain, costs only $30. In the last 20 years this campaign has saved 20 million lives. It has given hundreds of millions of children a better start. In the 1990s, however, the world s attention turned to other problems, and vaccination rates slipped backwards. Bangladesh fell back to 66 percent in 1999. Every year 27 million children a quarter of the world s children go unvaccinated against the basic diseases. Two to three million of these children die. Even for those who survive, these diseases can be crushing, forcing children to drop out of school, and parents to spend time and money they cannot afford on doctors and care for their sick children. The challenge today is two-fold: to improve basic vaccine coverage, and to put new vaccines into global use. Vaccines now exist to protect children against common diarrheal and pneumococcal killers, against hepatitis B and a common influenza. But they are mainly in use in wealthy countries. Soon there may be a malaria vaccine as well. All these must become part of the universal vaccine package. Help has come from an organization launched in 2000, the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization. Financed by governments, organizations such as the World Bank and Unicef and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, GAVI gives poor countries money to improve their infrastructure and logistics and then gives them more if they actually achieve improved vaccination rates. It also helps assure a predictable market for new vaccines, which encourages drug makers to produce them in large quantities. It has helped expand both basic and new vaccine coverage because of GAVI, for example, 90 million children have been immunized against hepatitis B(pdf). Immunization became a victim of its success, but close attention and new partnerships are now reviving vaccines. It is a lesson that eternal vigilance is needed, even to protect a program that became venerable practically overnight. II. Give Poor People an Ownership Stake Look around the edges of any large third world city and you will see vast settlements built by the residents themselves. Migrants from the countryside claim empty plots in nighttime land invasions, put up a blanket with a pole or a cardboard roof and begin stockpiling bricks. Their livelihoods are similarly jerry-rigged. A man will nail together a booth, at which he can sit and repair his neighbors shoes. A woman will open a window to the street to turn her living room into a mini-bodega, selling cooking oil and rice. Most people surveying these kingdoms of dust and hope see only poverty. But Hernando de Soto saw something else untapped wealth. Mr. De Soto, a Peruvian economist, realized that the world s poor own trillions of dollars worth of assets. But their houses, plots of land and businesses lacked formal title and so could not be used to do all the things that people in wealthy countries do to turn a little money into a lot of money. Without title, people can not sell stakes in their businesses, use their homes as collateral for loans, buy insurance, or form limited liability corporations to reduce their personal risk. They cannot get credit in banks. They do not improve their businesses because their investment may suddenly vanish at any moment. They must spend money and time bribing the police to keep from being kicked off their land. In many cases they cannot even get electricity and telephone service. Mr. De Soto s crusade, which has now marched to El Salvador, Egypt, Mexico, Honduras, Tanzania, El Salvador, the Philippines, Haiti, Albania and elsewhere, attempts to turn these dead assets into living capital. All countries, of course, have ways to register property. But in most poor nations, they involve so much red tape that they are essentially useless for the poor. Mr. De Soto had tried an experiment in Peru he established a two-sewing machine garment factory in a Lima slum and hired five college students to get all the necessary permits to legalize it. He claims it took them 289 days and cost them 31 times the average monthly minimum wage. Mr. De Soto likes to say that when he walks through the rice fields in Bali, a different dog barks whenever he crosses from one farm to another. The dogs recognize the assets under their masters control. But the legal system does not. To change this, Mr. De Soto founded an organization in Lima called the Institute for Liberty and Democracy. It carries out research on the informal sector. But the governments of Peru and El Salvador have also hired the I.L.D. to run registries that give poor people simple, quick ways to get title for their land, homes and businesses. It also helps them use those titles productively. In other countries, I.L.D. is helping governments design such agencies or train government officials to do this work. The I.L.D. s work in Peru means that legalizing a business can now be done in a day, by visiting a single desk. The cost dropped from $1,200 to $174. The group says that between 1990 and 1995, 300,000 titles were registered in urban Lima (pdf), and the value of the underlying land doubled by 1998. Hundreds of thousands of new businesses have been legalized. Poor people saved millions in administrative costs, and Peru raised millions of dollars in new taxes. Getting title, of course, does not mean that poor people can necessarily turn it into higher incomes. To use newly legal assets, the poor must still contend with banks that won't lend to them, and courts that require bribes and put up other hurdles. Tackling these issues may help solve one of the most vexing drawbacks of globalization and the market economy in much of the third world, they have tended to benefit only the wealthiest. But establishing property rights is a necessary first step. III. Microcredit: The 62-Cent Solution In 1976, a Bangladeshi economist named Muhammad Yunus came upon a group of 42 artisans but perhaps the more appropriate word is slaves. They made crafts such as chair seats, and used materials lent to them each day at exorbitant rates of interest by the buyer of their work. They were forever in debt, unable to turn enough profit to buy their materials in advance at market prices. Mr. Yunus gave the group a loan from his pocket that averaged 62 cents per person. With that, they bought their freedom. Twenty years later, the Grameen Bank, the organization Mr. Yunus founded, has lent small sums of money to 6.7 million people in Bangladesh, almost all of them women, many of whom had never before touched money. It offers savings, insurance, home mortgages, pension funds, scholarships, credit for families to buy fertilizer, build latrines or dig wells, and a program of no-interest loans for beggars, so they can offer candy or dried chiles for sale as they go house to house. Microcredit now reaches nearly 100 million clients in more than 100 countries. The World Bank has found that microcredit accounted for 40 percent of the entire reduction in moderate poverty in rural Bangladesh and that it had an even bigger impact on extremely poor borrowers. Microcredit raises an entire village s standard of living even non-borrowers lives improve. (Lending to men, by contrast, proved not to affect poverty at all.) Studies of microcredit programs all over the world show that it produces higher incomes and better-fed children, and improves a family s ability to survive illness or drought. To many people, the name Grameen is synonymous with microcredit. But the Grameen Bank is not even the largest microcredit lender in Bangladesh that is the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee. Nor were Mr. Yunus s 62 cent loans the first the earliest documented microloan took place in 1973, in Recife, Brazil, lent by Accion International , a group that has now lent over $10 billion. But what Mr. Yunus and Grameen did why they are sharing the 2006 Nobel Prize for Peace -- was show how an idea helping a few hundred people could be expanded to help millions. Grameen has also struck the proper balance it is sustainable and profitable, with $600 million in savings from borrowers as capital. At the same time, it has never forgotten that its mission is to fight poverty, not maximize profit. It charges interest rates far lower than other commercial microlenders. Grameen developed a model now in use globally. Although it is a bank, in many ways it is the opposite of a bank. Traditional banks in poor countries do not lend to the poor administrative costs are too high, and the poor were thought to be bad risks. Normal banks stick close to business districts, require collateral, and lend mainly to men. Grameen turned this on its head. Instead of collateral, Grameen depends on social pressure to guarantee loans. Women form borrowing groups of five, and must pay back their loans regularly for others in the group to be able to get one; borrowers must pledge to eliminate dowry, eat vegetables, have small families and educate their children requirements not likely to be found at conventional banks. It has been a decade since Grameen Bank accepted any donations or took loans. But hundreds of newer microfinance groups still look for donors. Accion International, for example, creates new microfinance institutions in 22 countries, which stop needing help once they become profitable. It also trains traditional banks in how to lend to the poor. Microcredit started as an antipoverty program, but continues as a business. That is one reason it has grown and grown while other forms of aid fight for governments dollars and attention. IV. Bribe the Poor In 1995, the Mexican peso crashed and the economy contracted by 6 percent. At the time, Santiago Levy, the deputy finance minister, realized that the country s antipoverty programs were going to fail its poor. The programs were a hodgepodge of food subsidies, adopted in response to powerful food producers. They were inefficient because they targeted foods everyone ate, rich and poor. Some even targeted foods the poor don t eat, such as bread poor Mexicans eat tortillas. Mr. Levy saw a looming disaster but also an opportunity to build political support for an antipoverty program that worked. Stealthily, he organized a pilot project to test a new idea in Campeche, far away from the capital so it would draw little notice. He began a program to pay poor mothers to keep their children in school and take their kids to the health clinic. He compared the results to poverty figures in a group of similar villages without the program. It was a great success. Data in hand, he persuaded President Ernesto Zedillo to phase in the new program and phase out the food subsidies. Oportunidades, formerly called Progresa, is now embraced by all parties in Mexico and, with financing from the World Bank, is helping virtually every poor family. It not only focuses antipoverty spending on those who really need it, it does so in a way that encourages families to break the cycle of poverty for their children. The average family in Oportunidades gets $35 a month about a quarter of the rural family income. Families with many children in school can get up to $153 a month, a ceiling imposed to avoid providing incentive to have more children. From the beginning, Oportunidades built in rigorous evaluation. studies Those have shown that it does focus its help on Mexico s poorest people, and that the money is producing good results. Children are bigger and healthier. Oportunidades has also cut child labor and led to more schooling in rural areas, for example, the number of children starting high school increased 85 percent. Moreover, by paying women, Oportunidades has augmented their power inside the family without increasing domestic violence. There are fashions in foreign aid, and Oportunidades is hot. The World Bank sings its praises (pdf). So far 25 countries have adopted some version. New York mayor Michael Bloomberg just announced he is looking for donors to finance a pilot program to test whether New Yorkers, too, can be bribed out of poverty. V. Link Up the Villages When Shenggen Fan, now 45, was growing up in a village in China, it could take two days to get to Shanghai by motorboat and then bus. It took him an hour to walk to high school. Farmers grew only products they could eat or sell to their neighbors. Now when he lands in Shanghai, he can drive to his family s home in three hours. The high school is a 10-minute bike ride from his house. Farmers now buy animal feed and fertilizer from trucks visiting the village, and sell other visitors the cereals, watermelons and pigs they raise. The village has grown much more prosperous. What has changed? Roads. Dirt trails were first replaced with all-weather roads made of broken bricks mixed with dirt, with drainage. Then the road to town was paved. Almost everything people need to be able to live decently requires a road. A good dirt road with ditches is fine, or one built by villagers themselves with local stones or locally-made bricks. It just needs to be a road that allows a farmer to push his products to market in a hand cart, and that lets buses and trucks get from the village to the main trunk roads. The villagers themselves can maintain it. Roads allow farmers to market their products, and bring in fertilizer and seeds. They let rural residents take non-farming jobs in nearby towns. Sick people can get to the hospital in time. Roads make it easier for the government to bring in water and electricity. Children can get to school faster, which means more will go. With roads, people travel out and bring in new knowledge, says Mr. Fan. They change their behavior. Roads are a window to the outside world. In extreme cases, roads are life-saving in the Ethiopian famine of 1984 and 1985, thousands of people died because they could not be reached by food aid. Today Mr. Fan is a Senior Research Fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute in Washington. The studies he and his colleagues have done on how poor governments should spend their money show that building small feeder roads is one of the single most effective ways to fight poverty (pdf). In India, it would be the single most effective antipoverty program, the group concluded. Feeder roads would also be among the best ways to spend money in Africa and China. Rural roads are not glamorous. Government officials want to build highways, not feeder roads. China, for example, has expanded its national highway system by 44 percent a year since 1988. But rural roads have expanded only 3 percent a year. In Africa, fewer than 10 percent of feeder roads are currently passable during the rainy season, effectively cutting off villages for months at a time. Thirty years ago, the World Bank concentrated on infrastructure. But many of its projects to build dams, highways and electrical plants were plagued with corruption and waste, or ended up hurting poor people. Building infrastructure, including roads, got a bad name. What's needed today is the infrastructure equivalent of microcredit small projects for villagers that are a necessary first step out of poverty. VI. Target the Decision-Makers Suppose you are a parent in rural India, or parts of Africa, or China. You are poor. School is available for your children. But you may have to pay school fees, and you must buy uniforms and books. The nearest school is in the next village a dangerous walk for a young girl. Besides, you need your daughter at home to fetch water and take care of her younger siblings. You know that education is important but it is your sons who will support you when you are old, while your daughters will become part of their husbands families. Your decision is easy the boys, and only the boys, go to school. Gene Sperling, formerly President Clinton s national economic advisor, now at the Council on Foreign Relations, likes to talk about the central paradox in girls education: Going to school is good for girls. Educated girls make more money. They are more productive farmers and have smaller, healthier, better-educated families of their own. They are even less likely to catch the AIDS virus. Educating girls is also great policy for a nation. Closing the educational gender gap boosts economic growth. But educating girls is not necessarily good for parents and they make the decisions. Most poor people in the world live in societies in which the girl marries into her husband s family. Educating a daughter, these cultures say, is like watering a neighbor s garden. Parents will send their girls to school only if the costs are very low. That s one reason why far fewer girls than boys go to school. Of children in primary school today, 150 million will drop out before they finish two thirds of them girls. In Africa, the majority of girls do not finish primary school. School is often very expensive. School fees in some countries, such as the Congo, are more than the national per capita income. When Tanzania abolished school fees in January, 2002, school attendance doubled overnight and most of the new students were girls. There are other costs. Parents must buy books and uniforms. When Kenya tried abolishing fees for uniforms, books and school construction in some places, students stayed in school 15 percent longer. The other cost to parents is the lost value of the girls work at home. To solve this problem, many countries now pay families to send children, especially girls, to school. It is a central feature of Oportunidades-style cash payments, for example. Bangladesh's government provides 15 to 20 kilograms of grain, mainly wheat, per month to families of poor boys and girls if they maintain 85 percent attendance in primary school. The government also pays a stipend to all girls in rural areas in grades 6 through 10, covering the cost of tuition, exams, books, supplies, uniforms, transportation and even kerosene for lamps to study by. The girls must keep up minimum grades, attend classes and not get married until out of school. This program has boosted girls enrollment from 27 percent to 60 percent. Bangladesh is also home to the schools run by BRAC, the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee. BRAC's community schools have doubled the completion rates of government schools by overcoming the hidden obstacles to educating girls.. BRAC runs more than 30,000 schools for poor students, many in places where the nearest government school is far away. Teachers are women often local high school graduates given training by BRAC. These features reassure parents that their daughters will be safe on the way to school and while in class. School schedules work around harvests and allow girls to be home during peak chore times. BRAC schools are run in close consultation with parents and do everything possible to help parents give their daughters the gift of learning. VII. A Green Revolution for Africa What was probably the single most effective antipoverty program in world history began in northern Mexico in the 1940s. Test plots showed that new varieties of dwarf wheat resisted many plant pests and diseases, and doubled or tripled the usual yields. Similar improvements followed in corn and rice. The Rockefeller and Ford Foundations spread the seeds to India and Pakistan, and parts of Asia, Latin America and North Africa, along with irrigation techniques, pesticides and fertilizer. The Green Revolution is not yet over productivity continues to increase, and even faster than in the early days. It has prevented famine and brought improvements in income, health and survival to hundreds of millions of people. But few of them are in sub-Saharan Africa. Africa s farmers get less than half the amount of grain per acre that Asian farmers get. From 1980 to 2000, India s agricultural yields rose 28 percent. Africa s dropped by 7 percent. A Green Revolution for Africa is a challenge. Africa s climate is much more varied than south Asia s, so what crops need varies from place to place. Africa s infrastructure is worse than India s was, the soil is more degraded and AIDS is killing off the continent s labor force. But while a single Green Revolution benefiting all of Africa may not be possible, a patchwork of Green Revolutions is. Indeed, this is happening. The Earth Institute at Columbia University is working with 78 villages across Africa to help them improve crop yields, part of a demonstration project trying to attack several different causes of poverty at once. Each village gets help with crops, clean water, nutrition, schools and health, for a total cost of no more than $110 per person per year. The Millennium Village project hopes to show that conquering poverty is possible for very little money. In agriculture, the project provides appropriate seeds and fertilizers to farmers who pledge to contribute part of their surplus to local schools for their lunch program. The subsidies diminish as farmers become able to buy the seeds and fertilizers themselves, and after three years the farmers are on their own. Even after just one year, success has been notable. Farmers are growing a minimum of 3.5 times as much grain as before, with one village in Rwanda increasing its output 62-fold. Can this be done on a large scale? The evidence says yes. Ethiopia a country once emblematic of crop failure and hunger has doubled food production in the last 10 years and the government says it will double again by 2010. Malawi s harvest this year was double that of last year. Ethiopia s strategy was to provide farmers with better seed, more fertilizer, and hundreds of extension agents to spread good techniques. Malawi began to pick up 75 percent of the cost of farmers fertilizer and seed. Many farmers are now able to feed their families and sell surplus crops for the first time. Part of the advance has been luck good rains. But success today will give farmers a cushion and better tools for withstanding the next drought. The initial costs of improving crop yields is daunting for many governments in Africa. But if the Millennium Villages and countries like Ethiopia and Malawi can show success, they will make a strong case that farmers mainly need a one-time boost and that the benefits are great for Africa s poorest and most vulnerable to drought. VIII. Hold the Patient s Hand Tuberculosis is curable. Millions of people alive today can personally attest to the power of antibiotics. A simple course of four antibiotics, which costs as little as $11, can now vanquish a dreaded killer. So why do nearly 2 million people a year still die of it? Because these antibiotics must be taken daily for six to nine months. That means that the local health clinic must have a steady supply. Patients must continue to take the full course even though they stop coughing, and the medicine causes nasty side effects. TB strikes mostly the poor, especially those living in crowded conditions. Many of them are migrants, who may be lost to the health system when they move. If they don't finish the course, terrible things can happen. Patients stay sick, but now with a form of TB resistant to the basic drugs. Medicines that can cure this form of TB can cost $10,000, and the course of treatment is two years. Because of poor adherence, resistance has reached the point where some forms of TB are incurable. South Africa is battling an outbreak of this extremely resistant TB, and no doubt many other places are as well they just don t know it yet. The solution is a strategy invented in Tanzania in the 1970s and now in use all over the world, called DOTS, for Directly Observed Treatment, Short-course. DOTS has several components among them good supply management and diagnosis but what is key is what it is named for. Someone becomes a pill pal, with the job of watching the patient swallow the medicines. This can be a neighbor, a family member, or a community health worker. DOTS is now widespread it covers about 60 percent of the world s diagnosed TB cases. It greatly improves the chance of cure. DOTS gives patients a social incentive to take their pills. But sometimes other layers of incentive are necessary as well. In her book Millions Saved , Ruth Levine, the director of programs at the Center for Global Development in Washington, writes about China s TB program. In 1990, TB in China was the leading cause of death in adults, killing 360,000 people that year. The next year, China switched to DOTS. China found a way to make DOTS even more effective by relying on the market. With help from the World Bank, China s government pays village health workers to find TB patients, get them to the lab for periodic sputum checks, and see them through the full treatment course. The pill pal gets a bonus, too, as does the health center. China s TB cure rate went from 52 percent to 95 percent, which prevents 30,000 TB deaths per year. Rates of resistant TB are far lower in the parts of China where DOTS is used. DOTS is one of the most cost-effective health programs around. Each cure costs just $100, and brings a return of $60 for every dollar spent. It works because the drugs are cheap and it relies on community workers instead of doctors. The DOTS strategy recognizes that the promise of being cured is not always enough to change the way people behave. It uses social and occasionally monetary incentives to get the community and the patient working towards health. These are not the only good programs. There are many more out there family planning, provision of small amounts of nutrients such as Vitamin A, agroforestry to restore the fertility of soil, to name a few. But the above eight are some of the best. A few common threads link these eight programs. Many of them rely on the market. Microcredit and property legalization help poor people to start businesses. Other programs pay people for desired behavior. Another common element is a focus on women and girls, who tend to be poorest of the poor and use help more efficiently than men. A lot of these programs got their start when one individual looked at a familiar landscape in a fresh way. The most important things these programs share, however, is that they work -and with more money they could be working on a grander scale. Financing them, and others like them, is the kind of foreign aid Americans say they want, and should have. Home World U.S. N.Y. / Region Business Technology Science Health Sports Opinion Arts Style Travel Job Market Real Estate Automobiles Back to Top Copyright 2006 The New York Times Company Privacy Policy Search Corrections RSS First Look Help Contact Us Work for Us Site Map

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Description: Germans seek to overhaul state job pay: printer friendly version Germans seek to overhaul state job pay By Carter Dougherty International Herald Tribune Tuesday, February 8, 2005 FRANKFURT Germany\'s public employees, long perceived as lazy bureaucrat...
050209migrants.txt
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Description: FT.com / World / UK - Wage inflation warning over low-skill limit on migrants Friday Feb 18 2005 . All times are London time. Roger Bove Edit Profile Take a Tour Log out HomeWorldUSUKEuropeAsia-PacificMiddle East & AfricaAmericasInternational econ...
050210behind.txt
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Description: WSJ.com - Willkommen to Hobbitland February 10, 2005 COMMENTARY DOW JONES REPRINTS This copy is for your personal, non-commercial use only. To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order R...
050210lobby.txt
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Description: WSJ.com - Lobbying Comes of Age in EU February 10, 2005 EUROPEAN BUSINESS NEWS DOW JONES REPRINTS This copy is for your personal, non-commercial use only. To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, ...
050210pay.txt
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Description: FT.com / World / Europe - Agreement on German public sector pay Monday Feb 28 2005 . All times are London time. Roger Bove Edit Profile Take a Tour Log out HomeWorldUSUKEuropeAsia-PacificMiddle East & AfricaAmericasInternational economyBrussels br...
050210tax.txt
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Description: The New York Times > Financial Times > Business > German jobless figures may spur tax reform February 10, 2005 German jobless figures may spur tax reform By FT.COM More resources from FT.com: News and Analysis Markets Industries Companies Searc...
050211exports.txt
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Description: FT.com / World / Europe - Germans hope exports will lead way to wider recovery Friday Feb 11 2005 . All times are London time. Roger Bove Edit Profile Take a Tour Log out HomeWorldUSUKEuropeAsia-PacificMiddle East & AfricaAmericasInternational eco...
050217labor.txt
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Description: The New York Times > Financial Times > Business > Germany seeks to stem flow of cheap workers February 17, 2005 Germany seeks to stem flow of cheap workers By FT.COM More resources from FT.com: News and Analysis Markets Industries Companies Sea...
050219opel.txt
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Description: Opel steers ex-workers to new lives: printer friendly version Opel steers ex-workers to new lives By Carter Dougherty International Herald Tribune Saturday, February 19, 2005 RSSELSHEIM, Germany For three generations, Petra Htten\'s family has headed ...
050222Q&A.txt
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Description: International Affairs ForumMon. February 28, 2005 Home About Contact Donations In the News Military Policy Euro Fiscal Policy Globalization IMF/World Bank International Trade Monetary Policy WTO Afghanistan Balkans China Iraq Korea Middle East Russi...
050224empty.txt
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Description: Empty Town: The Germans Bush Wasn\'t Able to See Published on Thursday, February 24, 2005 by the New York Times Empty Town: The Germans Bush Wasn\'t Able to See by Richard Bernstein MAINZ, GERMANY - President Bush of course is not the first president n...
050228right.txt
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Description: Suddenly, Germany\'s Far Right Isn\'t So Far Out Close Window FEBRUARY 28, 2005 EUROPEAN BUSINESS Suddenly, Germany\'s Far Right Isn\'t So Far Out New, media-savvy extremists are riding unemployment to win over voters Germany\'s conservative parties have ...
050228unempl.txt
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Description: FT.com / World / Europe - German unemployment at its highest since 1930s Monday Feb 28 2005 . All times are London time. Roger Bove Edit Profile Take a Tour Log out HomeWorldUSUKEuropeAsia-PacificMiddle East & AfricaAmericasInternational economyBr...
050302poor.txt
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Description: FT.com / World / Europe - Poor get poorer in Schrders Germany Thursday Mar 3 2005 . All times are London time. Roger Bove Edit Profile Take a Tour Log out HomeWorldUSUKEuropeAsia-PacificMiddle East & AfricaAmericasInternational economyBrussels bri...
050302unempl.txt
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Description: Pressure on Schrder as jobless rate surges: printer friendly version Pressure on Schrder as jobless rate surges By Carter Dougherty International Herald Tribune Wednesday, March 2, 2005 FRANKFURT Chancellor Gerhard Schrder of Germany battled to pass ...
050303gloom.txt
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Description: FT.com / Comment funds dataIndustriesLexComment & analysisEditorial co...
050303history.txt
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Description: FT.com / Comment funds dataIndustriesLexComment & analysis...
050305unempl.txt
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Description: German unemployment highest since 1933World Socialist Web Site www.wsws.org WSWS : News & Analysis : Europe : Germany German unemployment highest since 1933 By Peter Schwarz 5 March 2005 Back to screen version | Send this link by email | Email the a...
050307recovr.txt
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Description: FT.com / Home UK - Germany\'s chances of recovery are finely balanced Friday Mar 18 2005 . All times are London time. Roger Bove Edit Profile Take a Tour Log out Home UK Asia | Europe | US WorldBusinessMarketsMarkets & funds dataIndustriesLexCommen...
050308USCap.txt
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Description: FT.com / Home UK - US companies love affair with Germany is cooling Tuesday Mar 22 2005 . All times are London time. Roger Bove Edit Profile Take a Tour Log out Home UK Asia | Europe | US WorldBusinessMarketsMarkets & funds dataIndustriesLexCommen...
050309growth.txt
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Description: Bloomberg.com: Germany Updated:New York: Apr 04 17:16London: Apr 04 22:16Tokyo: Apr 05 06:16 : Regions Top Worldwide Regions Asia Australia & New Zealand Canada Europe Germany Japan Latin America U.K. U.S. Markets Economy/Politics Com...
050310tech.txt
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Description: Germany\'s lead in technology spending falters: printer friendly version Germany\'s lead in technology spending falters By Kevin J. O\'Brien International Herald Tribune Thursday, March 10, 2005 HANNOVER, Germany Klaus Breitenbach, founder of a company ...
050310unempl.txt
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Description: German jobless summit: printer friendly version German jobless summit By Carter Dougherty International Herald Tribune Thursday, March 10, 2005 Schrder to meet with political rivals FRANKFURT Faced with the highest unemployment rate since World War I...
050314right.txt
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Description: The New York Times > International > Europe > Germany\'s Far Right Tries to Put on a Normal Face March 14, 2005 Germany\'s Far Right Tries to Put on a Normal Face By RICHARD BERNSTEIN CKA, Germany, March 12 - The neo-Nazis, as members of the National ...
050314schroder.txt
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Description: FT.com / Columnists / European Comment - European Comment: More than a quick fix Monday Mar 14 2005 . All times are London time. Roger Bove Edit Profile Take a Tour Log out HomeWorldBusinessMarketsMarkets analysi...
050314schroeder.txt
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Description: FT.com / Columnists / European Comment - European Comment: More than a quick fix Monday Mar 14 2005 . All times are London time. Roger Bove Edit Profile Take a Tour Log out HomeWorldBusinessMarketsMarkets analysi...
050314transpar.txt
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Description: FT.com / Comment funds dataIndustriesLexComment & analysisEditorial c...
050316drugs.txt
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Description: WSJ.com - Business Europe March 16, 2005 BUSINESS EUROPE DOW JONES REPRINTS This copy is for your personal, non-commercial use only. To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints...
050316opel.txt
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Description: Germany: Opel works committee signs a \"Pact for the Future\" Union endorses wage cutsWorld Socialist Web Site www.wsws.org WSWS : News & Analysis : Europe : Germany Germany: Opel works committee signs a Pact for the Future Union endorses wage cuts By...
050317spiral.txt
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Description: WSJ.com - Deutschland Unter Alles? March 17, 2005 COMMENTARY DOW JONES REPRINTS This copy is for your personal, non-commercial use only. To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Repr...
050318schroder.txt
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Description: The New York Times > International > Europe > As Election Looms, Gerhard Schrder Seeks Tax Cut and New Spending March 18, 2005 As Election Looms, Gerhard Schrder Seeks Tax Cut and New Spending By RICHARD BERNSTEIN ERLIN, March 17 - With one eye on t...
050318taxes1.txt
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Description: FT.com / Comment funds dataIndustriesLexComment & analysisEditorial commentC...
050318taxes2.txt
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Description: WSJ.com - Germany, in Shift, Plans to Cut Rate Of Corporate Taxes March 18, 2005 EUROPEAN BUSINESS NEWS DOW JONES REPRINTS This copy is for your personal, non-commercial use only. To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleague...
050321jobs.txt
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Description: Why Germany can\'t create jobs | csmonitor.com from the March 21, 2005 edition http:/www.csmonitor.com/2005/0321/p06s01-woeu.html Why Germany can\'t create jobs European Union leaders meet Tuesday in Brussels in a bid to revive Europe\'s stagnant econo...
050321taxes.txt
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Description: WSJ.com - Gerhard\'s EpiphanyArticle Search Advanced Search Quotes & Research Symbol(s) Name As of Monday, March 21, 2005 LOG OUT The Print Edition Today\'s Edition Past Editions Features Portfolio Columnists In-Depth Reports Discussions Company Res...
050321taxes1.txt
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Description: Economist.com About sponsorship Taxing times Mar 21st 2005 From The Economist Global Agenda Germanys chancellor has proposed a cut in corporate income tax. This might put Germany in a slightly better position to counter harmful tax competition from...
050322taxes.txt
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Description: WSJ.com - Germany\'s Epiphany March 22, 2005 REVIEW & OUTLOOK DOW JONES REPRINTS This copy is for your personal, non-commercial use only. To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Repr...
050323lex.txt
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Description: FT.com Lex: German economy Nobody expects Germany\'s depressed consumers to revive the eurozone\'s perennial economic laggard. Instead, investors have been banking on rising corporate investment, underpinned by exports and a fairly buoyant stock market...
050325babies.txt
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Description: German town promotes child care, sees a baby boom | csmonitor.com from the March 25, 2005 edition http:/www.csmonitor.com/2005/0325/p01s03-woeu.html German town promotes child care, sees a baby boom By Isabelle de Pommereau | Correspondent of The Ch...
050330taxes.txt
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Description: From: ncpa@ncpa.org Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 10:30 AM To: Bove, Roger Even Subject: NCPA: Daily Policy Digest 03-30-2005 NATIONAL CENTER FOR POLICY ANALYSIS DAILY POLICY DIGEST 3/30/2005 http:/www.ncpa.org --IN TODAY\'S DIGEST -o The U.K. exper...
050331taxes.txt
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Description: Germany steps up its tax-evasion fight: printer friendly version Germany steps up its tax-evasion fight By Carter Dougherty International Herald Tribune Thursday, March 31, 2005 FRANKFURT Brushing aside qualms about privacy rights and potential econo...
050400tech.txt
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Description: GermanyTechnologyReview.com Print | Forums Germany By Thomas Vaek April 2005 A century ago, with its world-leading chemical industry and its cadre of top physicists, Germany was widely considered a technological heavyweight. But it has now fallen b...
050404finances.txt
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Description: Days of the economic miracle just a fading memory By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard (Filed: 04/04/2005) Germany faces the loss of its coveted AAA sovereign credit rating unless it takes drastic measures to clean up public finances, according to a parliament...
050404wageSite.txt
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Description: Germany\'s minimal wages idea targets UK By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard (Filed: 04/04/2005) A website that gets unemployed Germans bidding against each other to work for the lowest wages is set to spark fresh controversy with plans for an August launch in...
050407DFI.txt
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Description: FT.com / Home UK - US companies love affair with Germany is cooling Friday Apr 8 2005 . All times are London time. Roger Bove Edit Profile Take a Tour Log out Home UK Asia | Europe | US WorldBusinessMarketsMarkets & funds dataIndustriesLexComment ...
050407manuf.txt
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Description: FT.com / World / Europe - New blow to German industry Friday Apr 8 2005 . All times are London time. Roger Bove Edit Profile Take a Tour Log out HomeWorldUSUKEuropeAsia-PacificMiddle East & AfricaAmericasInternational economyBrussels briefingNews ...
050408quality.txt
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Description: Is \"Made in Germany\" What It Says It Is? | Business & Economics | Deutsche Welle | Search language selector German English Arabic Russian Chinese Portuguese for Brasil Spanish Albanian Amharic Arabic Bengali Bosnian Bulgarian Chinese Croatian Dari E...
050409banks.txt
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Description: European Banks Leave Germany in the Dust | Business & Economics | Deutsche Welle | Search language selector German English Arabic Russian Chinese Portuguese for Brasil Spanish Albanian Amharic Arabic Bengali Bosnian Bulgarian Chinese Croatian Dari E...
050411freiburg.txt
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Description: caf babel, European current affairs magazine : comment and analysis from Europe Europes eco-cities Jeremy Cliffe - London - 11.4.2005 The German city of Freiburg im Breisgau is leading the way in sustainable local development. Although it is not an i...
050411renewable.txt
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Description: caf babel, European current affairs magazine : comment and analysis from Europe In 40 years time the complete conversion to renewable energy will have been achieved Tobias Troll - Paris - 11.4.2005 Traduction : Claire McBride In an interview with caf...

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