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	<title>A Second Hand Conjecture &#187; Africa</title>
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		<title>Bringing Sight to the Poor</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/01/13/bringing-sight-to-the-poor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:52:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChrisB</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Around the Web]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[glasses]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[with do it yourself adjustible strength glasses.No optician needed.]]></description>
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		<title>The West as Nuclear Proliferator</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/09/the-west-as-nuclear-proliferator/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/09/the-west-as-nuclear-proliferator/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 09:48:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(NYT) The New York Times has a fascinating little chart today, illustrating the primary sources of nuclear weapons proliferation over time. In looking at the diagram, one cannot escape the overall impression that until recently the West has been the &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/09/the-west-as-nuclear-proliferator/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Getting Drunk with Oilfield Trash</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/14/getting-drunk-with-oilfield-trash/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/14/getting-drunk-with-oilfield-trash/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 08:44:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[energy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[commerical-adventurer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drinking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drunk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FPSO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[grandchildren]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gulf of Guniea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gunboats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[incompetent]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[international watrers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lagos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nigeria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[offshore exploration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oil]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[oilfield trash]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[piracy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was sitting in an airport lounge yesterday and got to chatting with a member of the self-described &#8220;oilfield trash&#8221; who was bound for Lagos, and then for an FPSO in the Gulf of Guinea. These are rough and ready &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/14/getting-drunk-with-oilfield-trash/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Last Jews of Zimbabwe</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/08/the-last-jews-of-zimbabwe/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/08/the-last-jews-of-zimbabwe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 20:58:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Around the Web]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[community]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Saks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jews]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Saks reflects on a vanishing community. Down to 260 individuals by some estimates.]]></description>
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		<title>Christopher Hitchens on Robert Mugabe</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/31/christopher-hitchens-on-robert-mugabe/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/31/christopher-hitchens-on-robert-mugabe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2008 09:08:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign affairs]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Maoism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;d heard that Hitch addressed the situation in Zimbabwe in his introductory remarks at the Freedom Fest 2008 debate with Dinesh D&#8217;Souza, but I hadn&#8217;t seen the video of it until today. It&#8217;s worth a watch. The subject of the &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/31/christopher-hitchens-on-robert-mugabe/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Woops.</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/25/woops/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 15:43:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Foust</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign affairs]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://asecondhandconjecture.com/?p=4666</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Geography, people: Aug. 25 (Bloomberg) &#8212; Prime Minister Kevin Rudd sent extra diplomatic and police officials to west Africa to help investigate the kidnapping in Somalia of a group of reporters, including an Australian photojournalist. &#8220;We have deployed additional staff &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/25/woops/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Thunder in the Place of the Winds</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/07/thunder-in-the-place-of-the-winds/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/07/thunder-in-the-place-of-the-winds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:36:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Abdallahi]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alex Ely]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[photo: Isuru Senevi &#124; site And so ends Mauritania&#8217;s brief experiment with constitutional democracy. The AFP has a source in the new ruling junta who says there will be new elections in two months. We shall see. Alex Ely notes &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/07/thunder-in-the-place-of-the-winds/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>How Supermarkets Can End Poverty</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/01/how-supermarkets-can-end-poverty/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/01/how-supermarkets-can-end-poverty/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 09:52:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Developmental economics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Namibian supermarket selection (photo: Olivier Peyre) One of great inequities in the modern world is that in relative terms, food in poor and starving countries often costs far more than in the wealthy developed world. That&#8217;s because industrial countries tend &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/01/how-supermarkets-can-end-poverty/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Viral Wal-Mart</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/07/31/viral-wal-mart/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/07/31/viral-wal-mart/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 21:56:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[inection]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anti-Wal-Mart hysteria seems to have curiously abated somewhat since the corporation started giving more generously to the Democratic Party. Not an uncharacteristic phenomenon for the centralized extortion tactics &#8211;er, &#8220;grassroots activism&#8221; of such campaigns. But there are still some people &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/07/31/viral-wal-mart/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Investing at Home in Africa</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/07/30/investing-at-home-in-africa/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/07/30/investing-at-home-in-africa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 01:24:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Developmental economics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Chile]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[George Kumi]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[inflation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[profits]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[(photo: William Bedzrah) One of the traditional problems of economic development in sub-Saharan Africa is that internal African investment dollars tend to be spent outside the continent. Thus it&#8217;s interesting to see Nigerian investment in Ghana has now reached $580 &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/07/30/investing-at-home-in-africa/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Ignoring Chad</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/06/28/ignoring-chad/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/06/28/ignoring-chad/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2008 16:07:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Foust</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Around the Web]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Axe writes on one of the world&#8217;s biggest ignored crises—right next door to the much more hip, much more visible crisis in Darfur. The Central African Republic has been spiraling into conflict, forcing over 60,000 people into refugee camps&#8230; &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/06/28/ignoring-chad/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>StatAttak</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/03/04/statattak/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2008 18:38:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Around the Web]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Very cool t-shirts with inventive visualizations of statistics on African countries.]]></description>
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		<title>Geldof and Bush: Diary From the Road</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/28/geldof-and-bush-diary-from-the-road/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/28/geldof-and-bush-diary-from-the-road/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 18:54:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith_Indy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A short portrait of President Bush from Sir Bob Geldof, on the Presidents recent trip around Africa. Really shows what we&#8217;ve been accomplishing in Africa the last several years. In 2003, only 50,000 Africans were on HIV antiretroviral drugs — &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/28/geldof-and-bush-diary-from-the-road/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Pompeii Against Allah?</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/22/pompeii-against-allah/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/22/pompeii-against-allah/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:53:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[photo: Martin Dixon Here&#8217;s a grim laugh for your Friday morning. A Muslim propaganda video which preposterously seeks to explain the death and burial of Pompeii and Herculaneum in the 1st century, as the result of the wrath of Allah &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/22/pompeii-against-allah/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Elephants Return</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/07/the-elephants-return/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2008 11:37:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[photo: Vearl Brown Uganda&#8217;s elephants have made a marvelous comeback, after having been nearly wiped out for their ivory, as part of Idi Amin&#8217;s many efforts to systematically plunder his country into ruin. It&#8217;s estimated there were once 30,000 elephants &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/07/the-elephants-return/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Scrambling for Africa: A Conversation with John Ghazvinian</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/02/scrambling-for-africa-a-conversation-with-john-ghazvinian/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/02/scrambling-for-africa-a-conversation-with-john-ghazvinian/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Feb 2008 01:31:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gas flaring in the Niger Delta (photo: Ellie) John Ghazvinian is a journalist and historian of considerable insight into African affairs. He also happens to have written one of the best recent books on the emergent international struggle for African &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/02/scrambling-for-africa-a-conversation-with-john-ghazvinian/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Idi Amin&#8217;s Uganda</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/23/idi-amins-uganda/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/23/idi-amins-uganda/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2008 18:52:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Somewhat dated but excellent documentary on the psychopathic depravity of Amin&#8217;s rule. The moment of macabre high comedy, in which Amin declares he has unilaterally withdrawn his army from Tanzania in the name of neighborly brotherhood during the Ugandan &#8211; &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/23/idi-amins-uganda/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>African wages, high and sticky?</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/23/african-wages-high-and-sticky/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/23/african-wages-high-and-sticky/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hat tip: Tyler. Chris Blattman has a conjecture, possibly high wages in Africa are holding back growth: One thing that has always struck me in the African countries I have worked is that the real wages (i.e. wages adjusted for &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/23/african-wages-high-and-sticky/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Nigerian Virgins Wanted</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/17/nigerian-virgins-wanted/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2008 21:55:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(photo: enric/baldiri) Nigerian magazine editor Madam Adunni Adediran, is appalled by the decline of traditional moral conduct in her country. In particular she&#8217;s concerned about rampant promiscuity and abortions among young women. To combat the trends she&#8217;s helped organize a &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/17/nigerian-virgins-wanted/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Notes on the Kenyan Crisis</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/17/notes-on-the-kenyan-crisis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2008 07:15:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kenyan Justice Minister Martha Karua has charged Barack Obama&#8217;s cousin, ODM leader Raila Odinga, with ethnic cleansing. Tourist bookings to Kenya have suffered 90 percent cancellations. Kenyan blogger Girl in the Meadow wonders why the election dispute is being settled &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/17/notes-on-the-kenyan-crisis/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A New Nigerian Shakedown</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/14/a-new-nigerian-shakedown/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2008 19:35:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(photo: Jonathan Boeke) The latest 419 scams aren&#8217;t the only nuisances for American businesses emerging out of Nigeria this year. Using the vast archive of documents made public during the 1990s epidemic of class action lawsuits against tobacco companies, Nigeria &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/14/a-new-nigerian-shakedown/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Minister for Kleptocracy</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/13/minister-for-kleptocracy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2008 00:30:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Japan runs the world&#8217;s second largest economy with 17 cabinet ministers. Ghana, one of the world&#8217;s poorest, currently has 70. Why? Ben Ofosu-Appiah examines the question and argues the need for the dramatic downsizing of African governments. Shakara then offers &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/13/minister-for-kleptocracy/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Rain for the Ruins</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/12/rain-for-the-ruins/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jan 2008 23:48:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(photo: Michael Deeble) With heavy rains flooding Southern Africa and displacing thousands, surely saving graces must be found in parched and dying Swaziland, a country long thirsting for a drop of rain. But somewhat typically, that oppressed country&#8217;s autocrat King &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/12/rain-for-the-ruins/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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