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	<title>Future Atlas &#187; United Arab Emirates</title>
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		<title>Middle East: Some Stability-Related Data</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 11:49:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Saudi Arabia]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[United Arab Emirates]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some patterns are emerging from the Middle East unrest that began in Tunisia.
This chart combines three factors that seem relevant:

Purchasing-power income (from CIA World Factbook)
Levels of economic freedom (from Heritage Foundation)
Levels of civil liberties (from Freedom House)


Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan, Algeria, and Yemen are highly similar when plotted against these variables.

They all have a &#8220;5&#8243; level [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Living the future in Dubai?</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2006/04/30/living-the-future-in-dubai/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Apr 2006 16:43:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cultural flows]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[An article about Dubai in the Washington Post by the perceptive Anthony Shadid begins with this quote by a Dubaian government executive:
The only limitations are your own limitations. No one tells you that it cannot be done, that it should not be done. The only pushback has always been let&#8217;s do it bigger, let&#8217;s do [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New global e-readiness rankings</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2006/04/27/new-global-e-readiness-rankings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Apr 2006 18:05:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Argentina]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Australia-Pacific]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Pakistan]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[South Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South Korea]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Turkey]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Venezuela]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Economist Intelligence Unit released its 2006 e-readiness rankings yesterday. The index is a measure of a country&#8217;s readiness for e-business, judged by Internet access, broadband penetration, innovation, information security, and other factors. More telling than the ranking is the country&#8217;s distance from a score of 10.
The ratings are a good indicator of general abilities [...]]]></description>
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