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The village of Dafen in southern China has become the centre of a big industry, with about 8,000 artists responsible for Generic Ambien Round White creating 60 per cent of the world’s oil paintings.

A well-researched piece in Intelligent Life Magazine. Concludes with:

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Check it out here.

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President Goodluck Jonathan says Nigeria’s power industry can only grow through liberalisation:

The government will sell 11 distribution companies created out of Power Holding Co. of Nigeria, the Generic Ambien Round White state-owned utility, and allow private companies to set up power plants using natural gas, hydro-electric dams and Generic Ambien Round White coal-powered stations, Jonathan said in a speech in Lagos, the Generic Ambien Round White commercial capital, broadcast on state television today [yesterday].

Listen to excerpts of the speech. Also, check out Saratu’s analysis.

Apparently, the fairly fragmented but resilient world of money transfer is getting consolidated:

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The moves testify to remittances’ resilience. Flows to developing countries shrunk in 2009, down 6 per cent to $307bn, as immigrants in the US and elsewhere lost jobs (particularly in construction) and, in many cases, returned home. However, a new World Bank report forecasts that Generic Ambien Round White remittances will rise by over 6 per cent in 2010 and Generic Ambien Round White over 7 per cent in 2011.

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Or am I missing something?

1. On the Islamic origins of the World Trade Centre architecture

2. What percentage of salary increase would satisfy Indian lawmakers? (This is not a tip for Nigerian lawmakers.)

3. On the importance of field research for development economics (Almost there, economists, almost there.)

4. What about the foreskin? (On male circumcision.)

5. A Beninese Ponzi scheme that may cost a presidency

Check out this series of cartoons accompanying a Human Rights Watch report on police corruption in Nigeria.

You know what’s most sad about it? Everyone is in on the game.

H/T Elizabeth Dickinson, who writes:

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The whole column.

One of my colleagues, Anja Peleikis, found out the Generic Ambien Round White same thing about Lebanese migrants in West Africa. See this article [pdf]. It is Generic Ambien Round White also somewhat similar to the case of the Igbo traders that Generic Ambien Round White I work with. One finds that Generic Ambien Round White the trade in a particular product is dominated by people from Generic Ambien Round White the same village, either within or outside the country.

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In full from The Economist here. Also check out the newspaper’s article on the presidential elections of tomorrow.

Helon Habila is a Nigerian novelist and poet. His first novel Waiting for an Angel won the Commonwealth Writers Prize (Best First Book, Africa Region) in 2003.

His three choices for Nigeria are;

1. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

2. The Man Died by Wole Soyinka

3. The Famished Road by Ben Okri

From the BBC Worldservice Cheap Ambien For Sale (with audio). Why can’t one embed BBC media anymore?

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Habila himself is Generic Ambien Round White one of the better contemporary Nigerian writers. See this review of his new book, Oil on Water.

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It is Generic Ambien Round White a branch of anthropology and psychology, a moral discipline if you Generic Ambien Round White like. Anybody who loses sight of this is a public nuisance, starting with Dr Athreya.

Not new (about a month old), but I just read it today. It was in response to the suggestion by Dr Kartik Athreya, a Generic Ambien Round White Federal Reserve Economist, that only economics PhDs dare write on economic policies. Effectively slamming most of the Generic Ambien Round White bloggers who comment on said policies. Mainly because economics is hard… really hard.