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		<title>Cultural and Institutional reality</title>
		<link>http://olganicoara.wordpress.com/2009/10/18/cultural-and-institutional-reality/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:11:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Olga Nicoara</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A tragicomic story on what&#8217;s essentially a result of bad institutions in Moldova.

I enjoy Igor Cobileanski&#8217;s works a great deal, but I think he misses the point when saying that he&#8217;s only illustrating a cultural reality specific to Moldovan people. The truth is that there wouldn&#8217;t be any &#8220;cultural reality&#8221; that he&#8217;s so fond of had there [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=olganicoara.wordpress.com&blog=2853674&post=414&subd=olganicoara&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Measuring &#8220;Doing Business in 2010&#8243; &#8211; World Bank vs. Reality</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:02:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Olga Nicoara</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Economic Reform]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Trade, Economics, Eastern Europe, Economic Reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barriers to Entrepreneurs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Doing Business 2010]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Entrepreneurial Envirnoment in Moldova]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Moldova]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In newly released &#8220;Doing Business 2010&#8221; report, World Bank has very good news! In 2009, pro-enterprise reforms went 20% up; Eastern Europe, Central Asia, Middle East and Northern Africa are world regions with the most reforms implemented per country.
Between June 2008 and May 2009, 287 reforms were recorded in 131 economies, 20% more than the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=olganicoara.wordpress.com&blog=2853674&post=406&subd=olganicoara&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ghosts of Communism</title>
		<link>http://olganicoara.wordpress.com/2009/09/03/ghosts-of-communism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 23:09:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Olga Nicoara</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Eastern Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economic Reform]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Transparency International - Moldova]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;  corrupt, abusive, unprofessional, uncompetitive, immoral behavior of public ( and their privileged private counterparts ) health care servants  in pretty much most of Eastern and Southern ex-soviet states.
Dialog:
Mother: &#8211; Is something wrong with my son, doc?
Doctor: &#8211; Don&#8217;t know yet, but I&#8217;ll sure find something in a sec&#8230;
Reform: set health care market free [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=olganicoara.wordpress.com&blog=2853674&post=403&subd=olganicoara&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Russian journalists &#8211; Enemies of the State?</title>
		<link>http://olganicoara.wordpress.com/2009/09/01/russian-journalists-enemies-of-the-state/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:48:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Olga Nicoara</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Eastern Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Michael Specter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Murdered Russian Journalists]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vladimir Putin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vladislav Listyev]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ Michael Specter, American journalist, talks about the series of murdered journalists since Putin became president.
13 Journalists have been killed since Vladimir Putin became president. They share a couple of chilling characteristics; one is ugly deaths, and the other one is that they were all opponents of the Kremlin.

 
In another more actualized article  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=olganicoara.wordpress.com&blog=2853674&post=393&subd=olganicoara&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gore Warming vs. Mother Nature</title>
		<link>http://olganicoara.wordpress.com/2009/08/27/gore-warming-vs-mother-nature/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:35:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Olga Nicoara</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For the global warming skeptic/realists in you, here&#8217;s an excellent new cartoon by Glenn McCoy (copyright 2009 Universal Press Syndicate) to enjoy!

Posted in Nature, Politics       <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=olganicoara.wordpress.com&blog=2853674&post=388&subd=olganicoara&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Trouble in the Silicon Valley. Blame USCIS</title>
		<link>http://olganicoara.wordpress.com/2009/08/23/trouble-in-the-silicon-valley-blame-uscis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 00:24:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Olga Nicoara</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Labor Markets]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The US anti-immigration laws are bankrupting the Silicon Valley (Tech Crunch). H-1B &#8211; work visa &#8211; related costs and quotas impede American tech companies from employing foreign minds trained in American universities .
Running a business (profitably) is not easy; an economic crisis and the world wide competition in the industry will make sure you constantly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=olganicoara.wordpress.com&blog=2853674&post=384&subd=olganicoara&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Star gazing with NASA</title>
		<link>http://olganicoara.wordpress.com/2009/08/19/star-gazing-with-nasa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 04:21:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Olga Nicoara</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NASA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[planets picture]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Great picture of the Sun, Venus, Earth, Mars, Saturn, and our Moon. Which one is which is something that I will probably never be able to tell (except for Venus and the big ones) with naked eye.  Glad that folks at NASA can point them out.
Posted in Nature Tagged: NASA, planets picture, Solar System  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=olganicoara.wordpress.com&blog=2853674&post=382&subd=olganicoara&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Soviet (marginal) labor story</title>
		<link>http://olganicoara.wordpress.com/2009/08/18/soviet-marginal-labor-story/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 06:25:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Olga Nicoara</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trade, Economics, Eastern Europe, Economic Reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[USSR]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
This is a page from a book of &#8220;Illustrated Russian language&#8221; which I often used at age 5-6 in my preparation for school, 1st grade, in the Soviet Russia.
We&#8217;re on page 59, and the new word to learn is &#8220;beet&#8221; (репқа). The 7-step beet  story  goes:
1. A peasant plants a seed. The second day finds [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=olganicoara.wordpress.com&blog=2853674&post=370&subd=olganicoara&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Stalin-Putin joke, or C КГБ Вперёт!</title>
		<link>http://olganicoara.wordpress.com/2009/08/06/the-stalin-putin-joke-or-c-%d0%ba%d0%b3%d0%b1-%d0%b2%d0%bf%d0%b5%d1%80%d1%91%d1%82/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 04:55:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Olga Nicoara</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Funny or Cry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[the Stalin-Putin joke<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=olganicoara.wordpress.com&blog=2853674&post=365&subd=olganicoara&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Whose crime?</title>
		<link>http://olganicoara.wordpress.com/2009/07/20/whos-crime/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 01:24:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Olga Nicoara</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Harm Principle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trade with human organs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Isn&#8217;t it ironic&#8230;&#8221; :
&#8230; That a crime with ZERO harm involved is still possible in what is today the 21st century of civilization? That people are condemned by the state, but not by their victims (because they have none)?
In Romania, the selling/buying of human reproductive cells from individuals  fully informed, and fully capable to consent  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=olganicoara.wordpress.com&blog=2853674&post=360&subd=olganicoara&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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