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...bodies." As the local explosives expert, Tiazy is also responsible for dealing with the torpedoes and other old ordnance that islanders still occasionally stumble upon 60 years after the end of World War II in the Pacific. But today the police have come to Ughele to speak with Dick Dani. In his early 20s and unemployed, Dani has become the village nuisance. He's accused of assaulting people, using abusive language and throwing rocks at houses. Dani has ignored the warnings of Peter's committee and the village organizer, so the Solomons police have been called. Dani is questioned...
...After a night in the cells, away from the probing eyes of his accusers, Dani, who yesterday seemed to be enveloped in a dark cloud, admits his misdemeanors to Tiazy. Since there's no magistrate in this area, Dani is granted bail and ordered to face court next week in Gizo, the provincial capital. For minor offenses such as his, court tends to be a last resort. With fuel prohibitively expensive - at $1.20 a liter, a long trip can cost a day's wages - the police are always on the lookout for alternatives. Offenders might be asked to clean...
...Hariri established the Rafiq Hariri Professorship of International Political Economy at the KSG, which is currently held by Professor Dani Rodrik...
...Hariri established the Rafiq Hariri Professorship of International Political Economy at the KSG, which is currently held by Professor Dani Rodrik...
...fact, in this era of globalization, extreme fiscal austerity is particularly harmful. Harvard economist Dani Rodrik has shown that the most open economies tend to have sizable public sectors, because government consumption can be used to offset the income volatility that free trade typically generates. The Big Government Bogie, in other words, may actually make free trade politically and economically sustainable. “Scaling governments down without paying attention to the economic insecurities generated by globalization,” Rodrik cautions, “may actually harm the prospects of maintaining global free trade...