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		<title>Russian militia: between public and private interests</title>
		<link>http://olganicoara.wordpress.com/2009/11/18/russian-militia-between-public-and-private-interests/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:37:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Olga Nicoara</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Message from the bottom of Russian Militia:  
Russian Police departments are all about rent-seeking - Russian policemen are doing their jobs NOT by serving the public interest, but by serving the private interest of the higher ranked in their bureaucracy; corruption, collecting premium bribes, protecting criminals, defying the rule of law, is their de facto [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=olganicoara.wordpress.com&blog=2853674&post=431&subd=olganicoara&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>BSEC Bubble Chart 2007</title>
		<link>http://olganicoara.wordpress.com/2009/11/15/bsec-bubble-chart-2007/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 02:08:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Olga Nicoara</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[WB data visualizer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World Bank Development Indicators 2009]]></category>

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Posted in Black Sea Region, Black Sea Region of Economic Cooperation, Caucasus, Eastern Europe, economic development Tagged: BSEC, bubble chart, WB data visualizer, World Bank Development Indicators 2009      <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=olganicoara.wordpress.com&blog=2853674&post=428&subd=olganicoara&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why so poor?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 05:24:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Olga Nicoara</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Black Sea Region]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[economic development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EU]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[ex-soviet Central Asia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Moldova]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Moldova GDP per capita 2008]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[post-communim transition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[why so serious?]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Looks like the poorest piece of the Central Asian part of CIS is virtually bordering the EU. I believe there&#8217;s room for more&#8230; growth, much more than &#60;$3000 per capita for everyone. In Moldova&#8217;s particular case  it is a shame that it&#8217;s been close to 19 years, right by Central Europe, and only this?! What&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=olganicoara.wordpress.com&blog=2853674&post=424&subd=olganicoara&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Jelous Thoughts on a Rainy Veterans Day</title>
		<link>http://olganicoara.wordpress.com/2009/11/11/jelous-thoughts-on-a-rainy-veterans-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:20:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Olga Nicoara</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Both of my grandfathers fought in WWII, both survived the horrible war. Sadly and ironically, they also died so young that I never got the chance to meet them. What killed my grandfathers were years of declining quality of life and exhausting physical work on Soviet collective farms (kolkhozy) that followed under Stalin&#8217;s plan, slavery in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=olganicoara.wordpress.com&blog=2853674&post=421&subd=olganicoara&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cultural and Institutional reality</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:11:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Olga Nicoara</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Black Sea Region]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eastern Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Funny or Cry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[USSR]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[failed democracies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Igor Cobileanski]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[INSPIRATION]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Institutional Reality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Moldoca]]></category>

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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>
		<link>http://olganicoara.wordpress.com/2009/09/09/measuring-doing-business-in-2010-world-bank-vs-reality/</link>
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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>
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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>
		<category><![CDATA[USSR]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ghosts of Communism]]></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>
		<category><![CDATA[USSR]]></category>
		<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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