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	<title><![CDATA[Don't Just Do Something - Sit There!]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dennis-whittle/dont-just-do-something_b_227836.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.skillfulmeditation.org/images/buddha-head-hand.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="199" src="http://www.skillfulmeditation.org/images/buddha-head-hand.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><em>The Boston Review</em> has an excellent <a href="http://www.bostonreview.net/BR34.4/ndf_development.php">discussion forum</a> of Paul Collier's new book that includes an essay by the author as well as comments by Bill Easterly, Nancy Birdsall, and others. The discussion provides a meta-discussion of international development itself.

<p>Collier makes some observations about poor countries and then draws what seem to be ineluctable <a href="http://www.bostonreview.net/BR34.4/collier.php">conclusions</a> about what the...</p>]]></abstract>
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	<date_published>2009-07-08T13:37:00-04:00</date_published>
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