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		<title>Business partnerships in the fight against poverty</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Oct 2013 14:02:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Curtis S. Chin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The private sector must be a critical partner if we are to sustainably lift people out of poverty. It is small- and medium-size enterprises that consistently drive job creation and economic growth.]]></description>
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		<title>Dr. King&#8217;s message for Asia</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Aug 2013 14:01:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Curtis S. Chin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asian tourists]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine if a visit to the work of a once-obscure Chinese sculptor at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial were added to the itineraries of the throngs of Asian tourists.]]></description>
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		<title>Taking stock of Burma, Japan and &#8216;pivot to Asia&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jul 2013 14:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Curtis S. Chin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Myanmar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pivot to Asia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hope and change remain alive in Burma even as serious concerns continue about human rights violations and growing internal religious and ethnic tensions.]]></description>
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		<title>There&#8217;s no putting Asia&#8217;s Gini back in the bottle</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2013 15:02:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Curtis S. Chin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gini Coefficient]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[income disparity]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Protests in the reputedly "equal" nation of Sweden &#8212; attributed in part to young, unemployed immigrants &#8212; raise interesting questions about equality in Asia.]]></description>
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		<title>New opportunities for ADB</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2013 15:02:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Curtis S. Chin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asian Development Bank]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Takehiko Nakao]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Once again a leader from Japan has the opportunity to bring the Asian Development Bank into the modern world and to elevate the organization above backroom deals.]]></description>
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		<title>From ADB to BOJ: a &#8216;twofer&#8217; for Abe?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2013 15:21:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Curtis S. Chin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As President Barack Obama struggles to get his Defense and Treasury choices in place, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has his own personnel challenges.]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. pivot to Asia needed in education, business</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2012/11/22/commentary/u-s-pivot-to-asia-needed-in-education-business/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=u-s-pivot-to-asia-needed-in-education-business</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Nov 2012 00:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Curtis S. Chin  and Jose B. Collazo</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In the face of China&#8217;s continued rise and increased assertiveness, strengthened U.S. engagement in Asia &#8212; as evidenced by U.S. President Barack Obama&#8217;s official visit to Thailand, Cambodia and Myanmar so soon after his re-election &#8212; is good news for Japan and the region, whether you refer to it as a &#8220;pivot&#8221; or a &#8220;rebalance.&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Myanmar&#8217;s budding miracle</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jul 2012 00:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Curtis S. Chin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[More than three months ago, on April 21, amid great fanfare, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda at a Japan-Mekong summit pledged &#36;7.4 billion in development aid to five Southeast Asian nations in an effort to promote cooperation with countries in the Mekong region. The prime minister also said Japan would forgive &#36;3.7 billion of Myanmar&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China&#8217;s time to cut the cord</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2012/05/03/commentary/chinas-time-to-cut-the-cord/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=chinas-time-to-cut-the-cord</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 00:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Curtis S. Chin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[This week Japanese Finance Minister Jun Azumi and a large Japanese delegation will join some 4,000 participants gathering in Manila for the 45th annual meeting of the Board of Governors of the Asian Development Bank. By tradition led by a Japanese &#8212; typically a former Ministry of Finance official &#8212; the ADB remains a major [...]]]></description>
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