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		<title>Congo&#8217;s colonial ghost</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 07:45:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we approach the 50th anniversary of independence, how successful has Congo's post-colonial experience been?]]></description>
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		<title>Pakistan: stifled from birth</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 04:34:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Khaled Diab Why does India, despite its size and diversity, seem so much more stable than Pakistan? Last week, I was in Barcelona attending a conference on the challenges to development posed by countries defined as &#8220;fragile&#8221; – which is the focus of the first-ever European Report on Development. The focus was sub-Saharan countries, but I was led to ponder Pakistan&#8217;s chronic instability as I viewed the images of hundreds of thousands of civilians fleeing the fighting between the army and the Taliban. One expert at the gathering described Pakistan&#8217;s fragility as a paradox and an anomaly, given the size of the country&#8217;s economy and its level of income and development. The current flare-up aside, some of the differences are more ones of perception than reality. For instance, according to the Human Development Index – which, incidentally, was developed by two economists from India and Pakistan – these two countries are at similar levels of development (132nd and 139th respectively). For the past few years, India has been experiencing extraordinary economic growth – fuelled by its knowledge boom – but until the 1990s Pakistan performed consistently better and had a significantly higher per-capita GDP. As for civil strife, sectarian [...]]]></description>
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