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	<description>Delivering a Stronger Peace and a Larger Peace Dividend</description>
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		<title>Haiti: Learning to Fish</title>
		<link>http://buildingmarkets.org/blogs/blog/2012/02/03/haiti-learning-to-fish/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:37:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mariana Keller</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aid Effectiveness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Haiti]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PDT's Journalism Fellowship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[handouts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sea cucumbers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[teaching to fish]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[PDT's Fellow Mariana Keller travels to Haiti and discovers why helping Haitians help themselves is more important than giving handouts.]]></description>
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		<title>So what on earth is an INDABA?</title>
		<link>http://buildingmarkets.org/blogs/blog/2012/02/02/so-what-on-earth-is-an-indaba/</link>
		<comments>http://buildingmarkets.org/blogs/blog/2012/02/02/so-what-on-earth-is-an-indaba/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Rees</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[entrepreneurship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[extractive industries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[local content]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[market linkages]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indaba]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[local economic impact]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mining]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Well a few months ago someone said to me are you going to the Indaba in Capetown in February?  I raised and eyebrow and thought to my myself, should I ask the obvious question?  At the risk of sounding stupid I muttered, "What on earth is an 'Indaba'?"]]></description>
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		<title>A Case for Buying Local in Badakhshan</title>
		<link>http://buildingmarkets.org/blogs/blog/2012/02/01/a-case-for-buying-local-in-badakhshan/</link>
		<comments>http://buildingmarkets.org/blogs/blog/2012/02/01/a-case-for-buying-local-in-badakhshan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:20:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Morgan Ashenfelter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aid Effectiveness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PDT's Journalism Fellowship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Afghan First]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Badakhshan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US Army Corps of Engineers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[USACE]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[With $5 billion worth of construction projects throughout Afghanistan, the US Army Corps of Engineers is uniquely poised to direct millions of dollars into the hands of Afghan business owners through its Afghan First policy.]]></description>
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		<title>Building Haiti First</title>
		<link>http://buildingmarkets.org/blogs/blog/2012/01/26/building-haiti-first/</link>
		<comments>http://buildingmarkets.org/blogs/blog/2012/01/26/building-haiti-first/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 18:35:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott McCord</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aid industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Haiti]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[construction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Procurement]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The best news to come out of PDT’s recent survey of Haiti’s construction sector is that international organizations are starting to put “Haiti First.” That means they are purchasing more goods and services from local companies, an approach to procurement urged on by PDT since we first arrived here in 2009. The number of construction companies contracted by international organizations has jumped from 25% to 45% since the earthquake two years ago.]]></description>
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		<title>As the Aid Players Shift</title>
		<link>http://buildingmarkets.org/blogs/blog/2012/01/25/as-the-aid-players-shift/</link>
		<comments>http://buildingmarkets.org/blogs/blog/2012/01/25/as-the-aid-players-shift/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 11:21:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>guestblogger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aid Effectiveness]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Why the rhetoric of "rich North vs. poor South" must be left behind in development thinking.]]></description>
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		<title>A City of Inspiring People</title>
		<link>http://buildingmarkets.org/blogs/blog/2012/01/19/a-city-of-inspiring-people/</link>
		<comments>http://buildingmarkets.org/blogs/blog/2012/01/19/a-city-of-inspiring-people/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 10:34:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mariana Keller</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PDT's Journalism Fellowship]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What struck Mariana Keller the most about Kabul were the people.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>The View From the Ivory Tower: Corruption</title>
		<link>http://buildingmarkets.org/blogs/blog/2012/01/18/the-view-from-the-ivory-tower-corruption/</link>
		<comments>http://buildingmarkets.org/blogs/blog/2012/01/18/the-view-from-the-ivory-tower-corruption/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:50:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>guestblogger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Just how bad is corruption for development? It all comes down to greasers vs. sanders... ]]></description>
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		<title>Holy Cow! Aid industry gets hit by 8.5 richter scale quake.</title>
		<link>http://buildingmarkets.org/blogs/blog/2012/01/17/holy-cow-aid-industry-gets-hit-by-8-5-richter-scale-quake/</link>
		<comments>http://buildingmarkets.org/blogs/blog/2012/01/17/holy-cow-aid-industry-gets-hit-by-8-5-richter-scale-quake/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 06:43:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Rees</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aid Effectiveness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aid industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[marketplace]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[USAID]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aid reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aid spending]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[buy local]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Procurement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[smart aid]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://buildingmarkets.org/blogs/?p=4461</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Well I just about fell off my chair when hit by an email 20 minutes ago.  How can an email shove me off a chair?  It told me that the biggest aid actor in the world was about to open the doors to local suppliers - and I mean non-American suppliers.  The free market is free at last, free at last.]]></description>
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		<title>Kabul Arrival</title>
		<link>http://buildingmarkets.org/blogs/blog/2012/01/10/kabul-arrival/</link>
		<comments>http://buildingmarkets.org/blogs/blog/2012/01/10/kabul-arrival/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 13:02:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Morgan Ashenfelter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Changing the world]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PDT Fellow]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Afghanistan is a tough and brutal place but is filled with inspiring and determined people. We hope the fellow can capture some of that on video.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Meet Mariana Keller, PDT&#8217;s Journalism Fellow</title>
		<link>http://buildingmarkets.org/blogs/blog/2012/01/04/meet-mariana-keller-pdts-journalism-fellow/</link>
		<comments>http://buildingmarkets.org/blogs/blog/2012/01/04/meet-mariana-keller-pdts-journalism-fellow/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 15:28:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Morgan Ashenfelter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Haiti]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PDT's Journalism Fellowship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[journalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mariana Keller]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PDT's Best Fellowship Ever]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[storytelling]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We've chosen Mariana Keller as the fellow for PDT's Best Fellowship Ever. She's gearing up for her trip to Kabul and Port-au-Prince where she'll be telling the stories of the business owners we've helped.]]></description>
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