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	<title>Global Development: Views from the Center &#187; Peter Timmer</title>
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	<description>Global Development: Views from the Center features posts from Nancy Birdsall and her colleagues at the Center for Global Development about innovative, practical policy responses to poverty and inequality in an ever-more globalized world.</description>
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		<title>Philippines&#8217; Aggressive Rice Purchases Could Spark Another Crisis</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2009/12/philippines-aggressive-rice-purchases-could-spark-another-crisis.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 17:44:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Timmer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Peter Timmer - I wrote in a CGD Note last week with Tom Slayton about how the Philippines are engaging in aggressive buying techniques that seem designed to drive up prices, raising the specter of another rice price crisis such as what befell us in early 2008. When more than 3 billion people—more than half of whom are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poor People Will Get Hurt And Confidence in the Market Will Fall (Development Impacts of Financial Crisis)</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2008/09/poor-people-will-get-hurt-and.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 20:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Timmer</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Migration and Labor Mobility]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Peter Timmer - I have been following the lively exchanges begun by Liliana Rojas-Suarez’s post on the development impacts of the U.S. financial crisis, especially Michael Clemens&#8217;s provocative post and Nora Lustig’s thoughtful reply. I agree with Nora that there can be short-run but irreversible welfare consequences from these big financial meltdowns. A doubling of poverty, even if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kudos to Tokyo and Washington on Rice Sales &#8212; Et Tu, Thailand and India?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2008/05/kudos-to-tokyo-and-washington.php</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2008/05/kudos-to-tokyo-and-washington.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2008 22:33:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Timmer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Peter Timmer - This post is joint with Tom Slayton, a rice trade expert and former editor of The Rice Trader Today in Tokyo, Japan&#8217;s Vice Minister for Agriculture, Toshirou Shirasu, told reporters that Japan plans to export 200,000 tons of rice to the Philippines &#8220;as fast as possible.&#8221; This confirmed sale comes on top of 50,000 tons [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rice Prices Fall After Congressional Hearings But Crisis Not Over Yet</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2008/05/rice-prices-fall-after-congres.php</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2008/05/rice-prices-fall-after-congres.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 22:12:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Timmer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aid Effectiveness]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Food Aid]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Global Health]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Peter Timmer - This post is joint with Tom Slayton, a rice trade expert and former editor of The Rice Trader It has been a busy week in the rice markets following CGD&#8217;s release on Monday of our note about how to puncture a speculative price bubble that threatens millions of people with malnutrition and worse (see Unwanted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>President Bush Can and Should Do More to Address the Food Crisis: Let Japan Sell Its Rice Reserves</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2008/05/president-bush-can-and-should.php</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2008/05/president-bush-can-and-should.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 22:26:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Timmer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food Aid]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Peter Timmer - This posting is joint with Vijaya Ramachandran Today, President Bush called on Congress to provide another $770 million in food aid, in addition to the $200 million already allocated through the Department of Agriculture,in order &#34;to keep our existing food aid programs robust.&#34; There is no doubt that these additional funds are much needed to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gates and Rockefeller Invest in a Green Revolution for Africa: The Tough Road Ahead</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2006/09/gates-and-rockefeller-invest-i.php</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2006/09/gates-and-rockefeller-invest-i.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Sep 2006 20:30:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Timmer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Peter Timmer - After years of neglect, agriculture is back on the agenda. In June the World Bank announced that it would prepare a World Development Report on Agriculture for Development for publication late next year. Then yesterday the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation announced that they will jointly invest in a Green Revolution [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China Now World&#8217;s Third Largest Food Donor</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2006/07/china-now-worlds-third-largest.php</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2006/07/china-now-worlds-third-largest.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jul 2006 20:02:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Timmer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Peter Timmer - The World Food Program (WFP) has just released its annual Food Aid Monitor with data for 2005 on where food aid comes from and where it goes. At the top, there are no surprises: The U.S. is by far the largest donor, providing 4.0 million of the 8.2 million tons of total food aid. Sub-Saharan [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World Development Report to Focus on Agriculture &#8211; It&#8217;s About Time!</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2006/06/world-development-report-to-fo.php</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2006/06/world-development-report-to-fo.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jun 2006 15:28:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Timmer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Global Development]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Peter Timmer - Every year the World Bank produces the World Development Report, its flagship research publication and showcase for the latest Bank thinking on development. Each report has a theme&#8211;the WDR 2006 is on “Equity and Development,” the one to be launched at the fall meetings in Singapore, WDR 2007, will be on “Youth.” The development profession [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NATO Report on China Highlights Rural Challenge</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2006/05/nato-report-on-china-highlight.php</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2006/05/nato-report-on-china-highlight.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 May 2006 16:38:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Timmer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Peter Timmer - The NATO Parliamentary Assembly has just released a report on “China&#8217;s Development Challenge.” While the report discusses such topics as foreign investment and China’s energy needs, much of the analysis focuses on the challenge of rural development. This focus on the rapidly growing divide between China’s rural and urban economies and the fear of spreading [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Kenneth Galbraith, 1908-2006</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2006/05/john-kenneth-galbraith-1908-20.php</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2006/05/john-kenneth-galbraith-1908-20.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 May 2006 18:39:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Timmer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Peter Timmer - I knew John Kenneth Galbraith only a little, as he was not actively teaching graduate students at Harvard by the time I was a student there in the late 1960s (which alone says something about his longevity). But I was the last faculty at Harvard teaching in the area of agricultural economics and thus followed [...]]]></description>
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