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	<title><![CDATA[Obama Administration's First Test on Global Poverty]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ruth-messinger/obama-administrations-fir_b_179088.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p>We find ourselves at a crucial moment in history, not just for our country but for the world. Thousands of people in our communities have lost their homes or their jobs due to the current economic crisis. But I fear that the <a href="http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/fromthefield/216723/8953f6f87d827d1009e904e0d0b6b54b.htm">global financial crisis </a>will impact the world's impoverished and developing countries the hardest. For many of those already living on the margins, the current economic crisis is literally a <a href="http://www.voanews.com/english/archive/2008-10/2008-10-13-voa29.cfm?CFID=124095810&amp;CFTOKEN=41454129&amp;jsessionid=8430f9c99fdc5a339fa2445513f4f581a5e1">life and death emergency. </a></p>

<p>That is why...</p>]]></abstract>
	<taxonomy><![CDATA[World]]></taxonomy>
	<date_published>2009-03-25T13:18:00-04:00</date_published>
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