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	<title>Global Development: Views from the Center » Odious Debt</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>Squeezing Assad – Don’t Ditch Diplomacy Yet</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2012/03/squeezing-assad-%e2%80%93-don%e2%80%99t-ditch-diplomacy-yet.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 16:46:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lawrence MacDonald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Lawrence MacDonald - This post is joint with Jenny Ottenhoff As the violent crackdown on protesters in Syria intensifies, so does the international search for an effective response that stops short of military intervention. Meeting in Washington last week, U.S. President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron called on their governments and allies to ratchet up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prevention of Odious Obligations: A New Tool to Help Stem the Violence in Syria</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2012/03/prevention-of-odious-obligations-a-new-tool-to-help-stem-the-violence-in-syria.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2012 21:44:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kimberly Ann Elliott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Kimberly Ann Elliott - Last week President Obama responded to the rising carnage in Syria by saying that he is looking for “every tool available to prevent the slaughter of innocents in Syria,” government-instigated violence that has already claimed thousands of lives. What new tools are available? The economic sanctions imposed are having an impact, but they are weakened [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Time for New Leverage in Syria: DIRT Sanctions</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2011/08/time-for-new-leverage-in-syria-dirt-sanctions.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 21:12:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kimberly Ann Elliott</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/?p=7028</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Kimberly Ann Elliott - At the United Nations last week, a representative of Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon gave the Security Council what was described as a “chilling and horrifying” briefing on the situation in Syria. The United States is ratcheting up the pressure on the Assad regime where it can and Secretary of State Clinton called on other countries to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How the International Bond Market Might Influence Côte d’Ivoire</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2010/12/how-the-international-bond-market-might-influence-cote-d%e2%80%99ivoire.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Dec 2010 16:37:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Moss</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Todd Moss - With short term U.S. treasury paper paying zero percent, where in the world can you get 14.7%? Cote d’Ivoire. The yield on Ivorian Eurobonds spiked on fears of a resumption of civil war and prospects of a default on a payment due December 31st. Bondholders are right to worry. The Gbagbo junta, cut off from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A New Tool for Squeezing the Regime in Cote d’Ivoire…and Preventing Odious Obligations</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2010/12/a-new-tool-for-squeezing-the-regime-in-cote-d%e2%80%99ivoire%e2%80%a6and-preventing-odious-obligations.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Dec 2010 16:20:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Moss</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Todd Moss - This is a joint post with Cindy Prieto. As the Cote d’Ivoire standoff moves into Day Ten, pressure is mounting on Laurent Gbagbo who lost the election to Alassane Ouattara but refuses to stand down.  The African Union and ECOWAS have suspended the country, and the United States and Europe have each threatened Gbagbo with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Could Ex Ante Loan Sanctions against the De Facto Honduran Regime Prevent Illegitimate Debt?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2009/10/could-ex-ante-loan-sanctions-against-the-de-facto-honduran-regime-prevent-illegitimate-debt.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:18:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Kremer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Michael Kremer - This is a joint posting with Cindy Prieto. Since the coup ousting Honduran president Manuel Zelaya last June, the international community has responded with strong words and a mix of mostly mild actions. The Organization of American States (OAS) unanimously voted to suspend Honduras when the de facto regime ignored its demand for the immediate [...]]]></description>
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