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The Wall Street Journal: Fed's Kaplan calls for improving economic infrastructure

2016-04-05 05:09:11| Paper - Topix.net

The U.S. will struggle to accelerate growth from the current pace unless its government invests in infrastructure, manages immigration policy and improves education, said Robert Kaplan, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. "[At the] Fed, we're worried about GDP and employment," said Kaplan, speaking at a moderated forum with executives from Burlington Northern Santa Fe and Kimberly-Clark Corp. "People are rightly saying one-and-three-quarters-percent, 2-percent growth is very disappointinga we must be doing something wrong.

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Balancing Economic Potential of Marine and Social Life

2016-04-04 06:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Inter Press Service: When Africa's oldest protected marine area, Tsitsikamma - the largest in the world, incorporating 80 km of rocky coastline, bustling with marine life, much of it endangered - was opened as a pilot for public fishing on December 15, 2015, there was a big outcry. Tsitsikamma is declared to help restore South Africa's heavily exploited fish stocks. A group of conservation activists, the Friends of the Tsitsikamma Association, say they have not been properly consulted. Marine scientists feel...

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VIDEO: Economic impact of Ivory Coast attacks

2016-04-01 14:10:58| BBC News | Business | UK Edition

The BBC's Tamasin Ford reports from the town of Grand Bassam in Ivory Coast.

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Building Credit and Assets: Helping Survivors Recover from Economic Abuse

2016-03-31 18:40:38| PortlandOnline

This special collection explores credit, asset building, and Individual Development Accounts (IDAs), their intersections, and how they can be leveraged to better support economic justice for survivors of domestic violence.

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