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Economist portrays a new Democratic moment
11-30-2006 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)All eyes may be on Iraq right now. But Alice Amsden, an MIT professor of economy, clearly hopes the new Congress will move to foster the kind of economic growth in the developing world that will fight terrorism by depriving it of oxygen.
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