To Peg or Not to Peg: JEF Debates
Khalil Hanware, Arab News |
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JEDDAH, 26 February 2008 — Calls to delink the Saudi riyal from the depreciating US dollar received a shot in the arm when former chairman of the US Federal Reserve Alan Greenspan tacitly advocated...
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Cabinet OKs 3 Phone Companies
P.K. Abdul Ghafour, Arab News |
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JEDDAH, 26 February 2008 — The Council of Ministers yesterday licensed three new companies to provide land-line telephone services in the Kingdom, ending the Saudi Telecom Company’s monopoly in the...
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Gazans Stage Protest Against Israel
Hisham Abu Taha, Arab News |
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GAZA, 26 February 2008 — Thousands of Palestinians formed a human chain yesterday morning, stretching 41 kilometers along the border with Israel from north to south, in protest against a crushing Israeli...
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Society Responsible for Poverty: Yunus
Syed Faisal Ali, Arab News |
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JEDDAH, 26 February 2008 — The poor are not responsible for poverty; it’s the society that imposes poverty on them. It never gave them the space to grow, said Nobel laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus...
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JEF Diary Day 2: Microcredit Mogul’s Day
Siraj Wahab |
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JEDDAH, 26 February 2008 — “Rock star” is how one well-known Saudi editor described Nobel Prize-winning father of microcredit Professor Muhammad Yunus after his scintillating, straight-from-the-heart...
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