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ECONOMY-CHILE: Workers Nervous, Despite Anti-Crisis Plan
By Daniela Estrada
SANTIAGO - The four billion dollar economic stimulus plan announced by Chilean President Michelle Bachelet has majority support, but trade unions are still worried about mass layoffs.
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ECONOMY-HONDURAS: Stormy Outlook for 2009
By Thelma Mejía
TEGUCIGALPA - The economic outlook for Honduras this year is far from bright. The government has failed in its attempts to sign a new letter of intent with the IMF, and growth is expected to slow down due to the global financial crisis, according to analysts consulted by IPS.
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ECONOMY-BRAZIL: An Island in Stormy Waters
By Mario Osava
RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazil is not immune to the current global financial crisis, but there are many indications that it will remain largely safe from the recession shaking the world’s rich countries and that economic growth will stay at reasonable levels if the meltdown is neither deeper nor longer than expected.
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LABOUR-INDIA: Getting 'Bangalored' Back
By Keya Acharya
BANGALORE - The term 'getting Bangalored' , or having jobs outsourced from the West to this international IT hub, looks set to acquire another connotation -- this time of professionals being fired right here.
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HEALTH-AFRICA: Maximising the Benefits of AIDS Funding
By Rosemary Okello*
NAIROBI - Significant new investments in the fight against the AIDS pandemic could have positive impacts on broader health systems in Africa if governments handle them right.
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LABOUR-SRI LANKA: Gloomy Prospects in 2009
By Feizal Samath
COLOMBO - If the global financial crisis slams the brakes on worker remittances from the Middle East, Sri Lanka’s top foreign exchange earner, it could severely exacerbate this country’s economic woes, analysts say.
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CUBA: Golden Anniversary in Tough Times
By Patricia Grogg
HAVANA - The Cuban Revolution's 50th anniversary on Jan. 1 finds the country facing the challenge of sorting out the economy and improving living conditions, in the context of a complex international situation that may make reaching those goals particularly difficult.
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PORTUGAL: Mega Solar Power Plant Begins to Operate
By Mario de Queiroz
AMARELEJA, Portugal - The most ambitious and innovative solar power project in the world kicked off Monday in this white-walled village in the southern Portuguese municipality of Moura, one of the most impoverished areas in the European Union.
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ECONOMY-BALKANS: The Old Ways May Be Recession-Proof
By Vesna Peric Zimonjic
BELGRADE - Two things Serbs never forget to pack when visiting friends and relatives abroad are the kore and the cream. The kore is the traditional hand-made pastry; and the Pavlovic face and body cream has long held its own against more upmarket brands.
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ENVIRONMENT-AUSTRALIA: Emissions Reduction Target 'Weak'
By Stephen de Tarczynski
MELBOURNE - The gap between the Rudd government’s rhetoric and practice in addressing climate change, albeit with one eye on the worsening global financial conditions, has led to a palpable feeling of betrayal among Australians.
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VENEZUELA: The Cost of the World’s Cheapest Gasoline
By Humberto Márquez
CARACAS - The world’s most inexpensive gasoline is sold in Venezuela, through a longstanding subsidy programme that benefits car owners while depriving the oil industry of a large source of funds for reinvesting.
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BOOKS-US: Dick Cheney, Master Bureaucrat
By Daniel Luban
WASHINGTON - While lazier caricatures have always cast Vice-President Dick Cheney as the puppet-master pulling George W. Bush’s strings, it is the image of Cheney as master bureaucrat that provides the real key to understanding his power.
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MEXICO: Manganese Mines Harm Children's Mental Development
By Diego Cevallos*
MEXICO CITY - The Mexican mining company Autlán maintains that there is no evidence that manganese causes any harm to human health. But in the central state of Hidalgo, where the metal is mined, adults shake as if they suffered from Parkinson's disease and children's mental development lags behind normal.
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