{"id":1253,"date":"2005-06-09T13:42:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-09T13:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=1253"},"modified":"2005-06-09T13:42:00","modified_gmt":"2005-06-09T13:42:00","slug":"1253","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=1253","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>RECOMMENDED ECONOMIC READING<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Ka-chiiing ! I&#8217;m in the process of trying to clear the decks with previously promised blogging posts this week, since work responsibilities have lightened, which I will get to this evening. However a few of superbly informative posts on emerging markets issues demand your attention, both of which connect to the role of the World Bank:<\/p>\n<p>For the Arabists among ye, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/collounsbury\/\">Collounsbury <\/a><\/strong>has a two part series analyzing MENA market problems and structure. He&#8217;s really sharing on the ground insights here.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/collounsbury\/342631.html\">Part I. Practical Comments on World Bank MENA Development<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>and<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/collounsbury\/342792.html\">Part II. Practical Comments on World Bank MENA Development<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The esteemed <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/pundita.blogspot.com\/\">Pundita<\/a><\/strong> has developed and tied together themes from her previous postings on organized crime, international aid and debt issues and democratic reform to discuss plans the West has for Africa.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/pundita.blogspot.com\/2005\/06\/crooked-governments-beware-and-us.html\">Crooked Governments Beware and the US lowers the boom on UN <\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>  Pundita has been hitting the <strong>Transnational Organized Crime<\/strong> issue hard lately, so much so that I feel compelled to bone up on the subject which I&#8217;ve regarded as marginal in the past. In fact, she&#8217;s forcing me to stop and re-think some of my premises in terms of current national security threat estimation. I&#8217;ll have some thoughts about her post later tonight.<\/p>\n<p>More later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RECOMMENDED ECONOMIC READING Ka-chiiing ! I&#8217;m in the process of trying to clear the decks with previously promised blogging posts this week, since work responsibilities have lightened, which I will get to this evening. However a few of superbly informative posts on emerging markets issues demand your attention, both of which connect to the role [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}