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		      <pubDate>Wed Feb 10 11:13:27 CET 2010</pubDate>
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							         <title><![CDATA[Economics: Obstacles to social mobility weaken equal opportunities and economic growth]]></title>
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							         <description><![CDATA[It is easier to climb the social ladder and earn more than one’s parents in the Nordic countries, Australia and Canada than in France, Italy, Britain and the United States, according to a new OECD study. Intergenerational Social Mobility: a family affair? says weak social mobility can signal a lack of equal opportunities, constrain productivity and curb economic growth.]]></description>
							         <pubDate>Wed Feb 10 11:00:00 CET 2010</pubDate>
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							         <title><![CDATA[China - Economic Survey: Strong growth but increased social spending needed]]></title>
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							         <description><![CDATA[With the help of massive government stimulus action, China is now leading the world economy out of recession, according to a new OECD report. Already the world’s second largest economy, China could well overtake the United States to become the leading producer of manufactured goods in the next five to seven years, it says.]]></description>
							         <pubDate>Tue Feb 02 07:55:00 CET 2010</pubDate>
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							         <title><![CDATA[A bird’s eye view of OECD housing markets]]></title>
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							         <description><![CDATA[For a great part of the 2000s, buoyant housing markets have contributed to sustained economic activity in most OECD countries. But many markets overheated and the collapse of the US subprime mortgage market has been at the epicentre of a deep financial and economic crisis. ]]></description>
							         <pubDate>Wed Feb 03 00:00:00 CET 2010</pubDate>
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							         <title><![CDATA[The automobile industry in and beyond the crisis]]></title>
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							         <description><![CDATA[This paper considers the role of the automobile industry in the current cycle. It shows that the industry is economically important and its cycle is intertwined with business cycles.]]></description>
							         <pubDate>Wed Jan 27 10:00:00 CET 2010</pubDate>
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