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            <title>China, ¿a por el oro en renovables?</title>
            <description><![CDATA[<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" size="3">Todavía con las imágenes de la China olímpica y contaminada en las retinas, nuevos datos se suman a un futuro algo más esperanzador en las consecuencias ambientales de su modelo de crecimiento [<a href="http://economy.blogs.ie.edu/archives/2007/07/el_pib_verde_so.php">1</a>]</font><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" size="3">.</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" size="3">El Ernst &amp; Young Renewable Energy Group acaba de publicar su ultimo informe 'Renewable Energy Country Attractiveness Indices Q1-2 <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:metricconverter w:st="on" ProductID="2008'">2008'</st1:metricconverter> [<a href="http://www.ey.com/Global/assets.nsf/International/Industry_Utilities_Renewable_energy_country_attractiveness_indices/$file/Industry_Utilities_Renewable_energy_country_attractiveness_indices.pdf">2</a>], que confirma la pujanza china en este sector, ya comentada anteriormente en nuestros blogs [<a href="http://economy.blogs.ie.edu/archives/2007/11/china_se_renuev.php">3</a>]</font><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" size="3">.</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" size="3">Una vez más, el gigante asiático desplaza a alguna economía occidental de algún ranking; en esta ocasión, ha sacado a UK del <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">top five</i> de países más atractivos para las inversiones en energías renovables. Los EEUU mantienen por el momento la primera posición en todos los índices del informe, seguidos en el medallero por Alemania, India, China y España. Hagan sus apuestas.</font></p>]]></description>
            <link>http://energyandindustry.blogs.ie.edu/2008/09/china-a-por-el-oro-en-renovabl.html</link>
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            <title>Energy System Transition</title>
            <description><![CDATA[<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman">During the last few months I've been collaborating with <a href="http://www.vtt.fi/?lang=en">VTT Technical Research Centre of <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Finland</st1:place></st1:country-region></a> in a research project regarding this interesting topic, entitled "Governance and Research of Nordic Energy System Transition (GoReNEST)". This research is funded by <a href="http://www.nordicenergy.net/">Nordic Energy Reseach</a>, a joint initiative of Nordic governments.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></font></font></font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman">The GoReNEST project develops an analytical framework for the governance of Nordic energy transition and applies the framework for the analysis of the role of various research and policy instruments in supporting the energy transition. Recent advances in RD&amp;D governance and funding models are explored in order to find fruitful ways to support coordination and governance of the energy transition processes. A small-scale pilot stakeholder process is carried out to demonstrate the framework and its application.<o:p></o:p></font></font></font></span></p>]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 09:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Inversión mundial en energias renovables</title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:36:41 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Especulando sobre la especulación</title>
            <description><![CDATA[<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" size="3">Según cuenta la Biblia, Joseph, undécimo hijo de Jacob, acumuló maíz en las tierras de Egipto en previsión de los siete años de hambruna que estaban por venir. Desde entonces hasta hoy, las cosechas y materias primas han sido almacenadas y los comerciantes han buscado sus ganancias especulando con la oferta y la demanda de estos bienes, una práctica a menudo condenada éticamente a lo largo de la historia.</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" size="3">Cada vez son más las voces que se alzan contra la especulación de bancos de inversión, hedge funds, inversores institucionales, etc. como responsables de buena parte de la inflación en el petróleo y los alimentos. Entre los defensores de esa idea podemos encontrar postulantes tan diversos como la OPEP o el Senado de EEUU, cuyo Comité de Comercio se está planteando limitar la participación de los grandes inversores institucionales en los mercados de commodities. El pasado martes este panel escuchó con atención la ponencia del liberal George Soros, defendiendo esa misma tesis.</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" size="3">Recientemente The Economist publicaba un interesante artículo cuestionando tal planteamiento, que animo a nuestros lectores a comentar en este foro: </font><a href="http://www.economist.com/finance/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11453090"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">http://www.economist.com/finance/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11453090</font></a></p>]]></description>
            <link>http://energyandindustry.blogs.ie.edu/2008/06/especulando-sobre-la-especulac.html</link>
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            <title>¿Petróleo a 200 dólares?</title>
            <description><![CDATA[<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" size="3">Al escribirse estas líneas el barril de petróleo (West Texas) acaba de sobrepasar los 126 dólares, alcanzando su enésimo record consecutivo. Si bien ya es posible hablar de máximos históricos en términos reales, esto es, teniendo en cuenta la inflación, todavía queda cierto recorrido al alza si se tiene presente en esa comparación la evolución en el tamaño relativo de la renta mundial. Un reciente estudio de Deutsche Bank calcula que en el pico del precio del crudo de 1980 el gasto global en petróleo ascendió al 5,9% del PIB mundial, y concluye que el precio actual debería escalar hasta los 150 dólares por barril para que la factura global fuera de un importe equivalente hoy día. Desafortunadamente, no parece algo improbable.</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" size="3">En los últimos días hemos podido escuchar pésimos y autorizados presagios al respecto. Chakib Jelil, presidente de la OPEP y ministro de Petróleo de Argelia, afirmó recientemente que el barril de crudo podría llegar a los 200 dólares si la divisa estadounidense seguía depreciándose. Por su parte Arjun Murti, director general y analista de Petróleo de Goldman Sachs, también apostó hace unos días por un umbral entre 150 y 200 dólares, aunque a diferencia de Jelil defiende que es el encarecimiento del petróleo el que colabora en la depreciación del dólar, y no a <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:PersonName ProductID="la inversa. La" w:st="on">la inversa. La</st1:PersonName> tesis del banco de inversión estadounidense es que las subidas no se detendrán hasta que impacten de modo evidente en la demanda. ¿Cuándo cabe esperar que esto suceda?</font></p>]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 09:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>What will the next energy revolution look like?</title>
            <description><![CDATA[<p>I think many of us working in the energy field, tend to view a promising future for an energy system in which a large base of distributed renewable energy facitlities will provide head/cold and electricity to buidlings, in many cases cutting down distribution losses, and where renwable facilities produce hidrogen which then is used to move road vehicles. </p>
<p>Yet, revolutions are difficult to predict. Possibly they can only be explained expost. These days the famous biologist Craig Venter is providing reasurance that in a matter of months the first forms of truly synthetic life might come out of a lab. These developments could open the door to the design and mantufacturing of taylor made organism. Venter himself says that he envison manufacturing a bacteria that could convert CO2 directly into an hidrocarbon, thus virtually solving at once both the emissions problems and the supply of fuel.&nbsp;Could this be true? What&nbsp;would be the economics of such a process? Certainly if this happens this would be a true breakthrough that would affect all our lives. Apparentyly we only&nbsp;have to wait a few months to&nbsp;find out!&nbsp;</p>]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 09:29:36 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Más petróleo, ¿a qué precio?</title>
            <description><![CDATA[<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" size="3">El pasado martes concluyó el <a href="http://www.ief2008.it/">11th International Energy Forum</a></font><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" size="3">, una iniciativa constituida en 1991 con el fin de impulsar el diálogo entre países productores y consumidores de petróleo y gas. El evento reunió en Roma durante dos días en torno a 60 ministros de la energía, 50 representantes de organizaciones internacionales (FMI, OPEP e IEA –Agencia Internacional de la Energía–, entre otras) y directivos de 40 grupos del sector energético mundial.</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" size="3">Las conclusiones alcanzadas fueron las previsibles. El problema, a corto plazo y con visos de quedarse: nada garantiza que el precio del petróleo detenga su escalada, ante una demanda imparable de energía que pone en riesgo el crecimiento, el medio ambiente e incluso el suministro de alimentos; la oferta (OPEP) se lavó una vez más las manos, responsabilizando a la especulación, impulsada por el debilitamiento del dólar. La solución, a largo plazo y con perspectivas poco halagüeñas: en palabras del director ejecutivo de <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:PersonName w:st="on" ProductID="la Agencia Internacional">la Agencia Internacional</st1:PersonName> de la Energía, Nabuo Tanaka, una “revolución energética”. La IEA hará pública su perspectiva de esa revolución, y las acciones necesarias para reducir las emisiones de CO2 en un 50 por ciento hasta el año 2050, en un informe que será presentado el próximo mes de julio en la cumbre del G8 en Hokkaido (Japón). Tanaka adelantó que su propuesta exigirá “enormes cantidades” de inversión.</font></p>]]></description>
            <link>http://energyandindustry.blogs.ie.edu/2008/04/mas-petroleo-a-que-precio.html</link>
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            <title>El tren de Bali a Copenhague parte desde Bangkok</title>
            <description><![CDATA[<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt">Hace unos días se celebró en Bangkok la primera de las cuatro rondas de negociación internacional sobre cambio climático que tendrán lugar durante 2008, arrancando así el programa de trabajo que se acordó el pasado mes de diciembre en Bali. "The train to Copenhagen has left the station", exclamó a su conclusión Yvo de Boer, secretario ejecutivo del United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, curiosamente en línea con el título del post publicado en diciembre en los blogs del IE [<a href="http://economy.blogs.ie.edu/archives/2007/12/de_bali_a_copen.php">1</a>]&nbsp; </p>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 10:11:07 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Can market economy save the rain forest?</title>
            <description><![CDATA[<p lang="en-US" style="MARGIN-TOP: 0cm; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm" align="left"><span lang="en-US">Companies that&nbsp;make&nbsp;direct&nbsp;use&nbsp;of&nbsp;natural&nbsp;resources are&nbsp;nowadays&nbsp;frequently&nbsp;confronted&nbsp;with situations&nbsp;in&nbsp;which&nbsp;they&nbsp;need&nbsp;to&nbsp;make&nbsp;a decision&nbsp;about&nbsp;exploiting&nbsp;or&nbsp;not&nbsp;resources critically&nbsp;located&nbsp;in&nbsp;pristine&nbsp;areas,&nbsp;such as&nbsp;Alaska,&nbsp;Antarctica&nbsp;or&nbsp;any&nbsp;of&nbsp;the&nbsp;few remaining&nbsp;pockets&nbsp;of&nbsp;rain&nbsp;forest.&nbsp;A&nbsp;good example&nbsp;is&nbsp;the&nbsp;oil&nbsp;and&nbsp;gas&nbsp;exploitation that&nbsp;has&nbsp;been&nbsp;going&nbsp;for&nbsp;the&nbsp;last&nbsp;two decades&nbsp;in&nbsp;the&nbsp;tropical&nbsp;forests&nbsp;of&nbsp;South America&nbsp;(Ecuador,&nbsp;Peru&nbsp;and&nbsp;others).&nbsp;In&nbsp;such situations,&nbsp;company&nbsp;leaders&nbsp;might&nbsp;face&nbsp;the dilemma&nbsp;of&nbsp;either&nbsp;trying&nbsp;to&nbsp;increase shareholder&nbsp;value&nbsp;by&nbsp;exploiting&nbsp;those&nbsp;resources, of&nbsp;course&nbsp;both&nbsp;within&nbsp;legal&nbsp;and&nbsp;ethical limits,&nbsp;or&nbsp;respond&nbsp;to&nbsp;a&nbsp;more&nbsp;diffuse kind&nbsp;of&nbsp;moral&nbsp;expectation&nbsp;by&nbsp;stakeholders elsewhere&nbsp;and&nbsp;give&nbsp;way&nbsp;to&nbsp;a&nbsp;competitor to&nbsp;exploit&nbsp;the&nbsp;resources.&nbsp;</span> </p>
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<p align="left"><br />At any&nbsp;rate,&nbsp;in&nbsp;practical&nbsp;terms,&nbsp;the&nbsp;result would&nbsp;be&nbsp;that&nbsp;neither&nbsp;the&nbsp;governments&nbsp;of the&nbsp;countries&nbsp;involved&nbsp;nor&nbsp;the&nbsp;business community&nbsp;would&nbsp;find&nbsp;an&nbsp;incentive&nbsp;enough&nbsp;to simply&nbsp;stop&nbsp;a&nbsp;preserve&nbsp;untouched&nbsp;those unique&nbsp;spots,&nbsp;which&nbsp;somehow&nbsp;represent&nbsp;to&nbsp;us the&nbsp;bio&nbsp;history&nbsp;of&nbsp;our&nbsp;planetary&nbsp;evolution. Of&nbsp;course,&nbsp;the&nbsp;governments&nbsp;involved&nbsp;could quite&nbsp;rightly&nbsp;argue&nbsp;that&nbsp;western&nbsp;economies have&nbsp;for&nbsp;centuries&nbsp;depleted&nbsp;their&nbsp;own natural&nbsp;resources&nbsp;and&nbsp;that&nbsp;now&nbsp;it&nbsp;is not&nbsp;fair&nbsp;that&nbsp;ask&nbsp;others&nbsp;to&nbsp;do&nbsp;the sacrifice&nbsp;that&nbsp;they&nbsp;do&nbsp;not&nbsp;do.&nbsp;<b>At least&nbsp;not&nbsp;for&nbsp;free</b>.&nbsp;<span lang="en-US"></span> </p>
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<p style="MARGIN-TOP: 0cm; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm" align="left"><span lang="en-US">When confronted&nbsp;with&nbsp;this&nbsp;kind&nbsp;of&nbsp;situation&nbsp;some people&nbsp;think&nbsp;of&nbsp;eco&nbsp;tourism&nbsp;could&nbsp;be&nbsp;an alternative&nbsp;away&nbsp;to&nbsp;generate&nbsp;income&nbsp;for&nbsp;the communities&nbsp;and&nbsp;countries&nbsp;involved.&nbsp;Yet,&nbsp;eco tourism&nbsp;by&nbsp;its&nbsp;own&nbsp;definition&nbsp;has&nbsp;to&nbsp;be kept&nbsp;within&nbsp;a&nbsp;small&nbsp;scale&nbsp;and&nbsp;cannot, with&nbsp;a&nbsp;few&nbsp;honorable&nbsp;exceptions,&nbsp;generate enough&nbsp;alternative&nbsp;cash.</span></p>
<p style="MARGIN-TOP: 0cm; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm" align="left"><span lang="en-US">That was&nbsp;more&nbsp;or&nbsp;less&nbsp;my&nbsp;own&nbsp;troubled conception,&nbsp;and&nbsp;have&nbsp;many&nbsp;times&nbsp;wondered&nbsp;if we&nbsp;could&nbsp;find&nbsp;market&nbsp;mechanism&nbsp;that&nbsp;would bring&nbsp;the&nbsp;power&nbsp;of&nbsp;the&nbsp;financial&nbsp;and industrial&nbsp;powers&nbsp;of&nbsp;the&nbsp;world&nbsp;to&nbsp;work for&nbsp;preservation.&nbsp;The&nbsp;new&nbsp;round&nbsp;of&nbsp;the climate&nbsp;change&nbsp;discussion&nbsp;started&nbsp;at&nbsp;Bali last&nbsp;year&nbsp;started&nbsp;to&nbsp;put&nbsp;additional&nbsp;light into&nbsp;this&nbsp;kind&nbsp;of&nbsp;issues.&nbsp;But&nbsp;one&nbsp;the first,&nbsp;and&nbsp;most&nbsp;impressive&nbsp;pure&nbsp;market economy&nbsp;instrument&nbsp;I&nbsp;have&nbsp;seen,&nbsp;and&nbsp;I must&nbsp;say&nbsp;that&nbsp;I&nbsp;really&nbsp;captured&nbsp;by&nbsp;the concept,&nbsp;can&nbsp;be&nbsp;found&nbsp;at </span><font color="#0000ff"><u><a href="http://canopycapital.co.uk/"><span lang="en-US">http://canopycapital.co.uk/</span></a></u></font><span lang="en-US">. Just&nbsp;a&nbsp;few&nbsp;days&nbsp;ago,&nbsp;Canopy&nbsp;Capital entered&nbsp;into&nbsp;a&nbsp;partnership&nbsp;with&nbsp;the&nbsp;Iwokrama International&nbsp;Centre&nbsp;in&nbsp;Guyana&nbsp;to&nbsp;measure and&nbsp;place&nbsp;a&nbsp;financial&nbsp;value&nbsp;on&nbsp;the “Ecosystem&nbsp;Services”&nbsp;rendered&nbsp;to&nbsp;the&nbsp;word by&nbsp;the&nbsp;Iwokrama’s&nbsp;tropical&nbsp;forest.&nbsp;The idea&nbsp;is&nbsp;that&nbsp;somehow&nbsp;the&nbsp;economic&nbsp;community would&nbsp;then&nbsp;find&nbsp;reasons&nbsp;to&nbsp;pay&nbsp;for those&nbsp;services&nbsp;and&nbsp;that&nbsp;the&nbsp;income&nbsp;stream would&nbsp;deter&nbsp;any&nbsp;intent&nbsp;to&nbsp;destroy&nbsp;the forest.&nbsp;Canopy&nbsp;Capital&nbsp;intents&nbsp;to&nbsp;do&nbsp;this by&nbsp;creating&nbsp;some&nbsp;sort&nbsp;of&nbsp;certificate&nbsp;that companies&nbsp;and&nbsp;others&nbsp;would&nbsp;like&nbsp;to&nbsp;buy.</span></p>
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<p lang="en-US" style="MARGIN-TOP: 0cm; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm" align="left">One way&nbsp;for&nbsp;this&nbsp;to&nbsp;happen,&nbsp;would&nbsp;be&nbsp;that as&nbsp;companies&nbsp;evolve&nbsp;their&nbsp;Corporate&nbsp;Social Responsibility&nbsp;programs&nbsp;into&nbsp;more&nbsp;articulated&nbsp;and sensible&nbsp;actions&nbsp;they&nbsp;could&nbsp;find&nbsp;value&nbsp;in communicating&nbsp;to&nbsp;their&nbsp;stakeholders&nbsp;that&nbsp;they are&nbsp;supporting&nbsp;the&nbsp;forest.</p>
<p lang="en-US" style="MARGIN-TOP: 0cm; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm" align="left">Another way&nbsp;would&nbsp;be&nbsp;for&nbsp;governments&nbsp;elsewhere&nbsp;to allow&nbsp;the&nbsp;cost&nbsp;of&nbsp;these&nbsp;certificates&nbsp;to deductible&nbsp;for&nbsp;our&nbsp;income&nbsp;tax&nbsp;reports.&nbsp;In Spain,&nbsp;the&nbsp;current&nbsp;tax&nbsp;regulation&nbsp;only allows&nbsp;you&nbsp;to&nbsp;indicate&nbsp;generally&nbsp;to&nbsp;which kind&nbsp;of&nbsp;organization&nbsp;you&nbsp;want&nbsp;your&nbsp;donation to&nbsp;go&nbsp;(either&nbsp;church&nbsp;or&nbsp;NGOs).&nbsp;I&nbsp;would very&nbsp;happily&nbsp;buy&nbsp;Iwokrama&nbsp;certificates&nbsp;if&nbsp;I could&nbsp;deduct&nbsp;the&nbsp;cost&nbsp;from&nbsp;my&nbsp;income statement.&nbsp;It&nbsp;seems&nbsp;to&nbsp;me&nbsp;that&nbsp;it&nbsp;would be&nbsp;money&nbsp;well&nbsp;spent.</p>
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<p style="MARGIN-TOP: 0cm; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm" align="left"><span lang="en-US">I&nbsp;hope&nbsp;these&nbsp;folks&nbsp;at Canopy&nbsp;Capital&nbsp;succeed.&nbsp;</span> </p>]]></description>
            <link>http://energyandindustry.blogs.ie.edu/2008/04/can-market-economy-save-the-ra.html</link>
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