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...failed state. Just four years after the dictator Suharto was run out of office, the sprawling archipelago is struggling to emerge as a stable democracy. It hosts a full complement of developing-country ills: endemic corruption, erratic courts, reform-resistant corporations, crippling national debt, a barely functioning banking sector and falling investment. Psychological shock waves surging outward from Kuta Beach are bound to intersect with the nation's fragile social and political ecosystem in unpredictable ways, testing the allegiances and resilience of an ineffective government, and dealing a body blow to a sputtering economy that has yet to fully recover...
...institute, which was founded in April 2001 with a $50 million endowment from the Ford Foundation, originally focused on funding and encouraging new and inventive public-sector programs...
...plans to broaden the young institute’s focus from its current emphasis on the American public sector...
...popular new model - the Stilo, a hatchback starting at about €14,000 - and is slated for up to 1,200 layoffs. "Agriculture died here a long time ago," Lecce said. "Without Fiat, there's nowhere to find work." Deciding whether the carmaker should get a time-honored public sector handout now falls to Berlusconi. It's a difficult task for a politician who rode to office pledging to liberate Italy's free market - and still considers himself a product of open competition from his days in the cutthroat real-estate business. But inside Italian business circles, the question...
...places, the reports fit together like jigsaw puzzles. For example, Michigan had a larger than average decrease in median income, yet had fewer people below the poverty line. Frank Stafford, a University of Michigan economist, explains that workers in that state's high-tech sector took a disproportionately serious hit. That would tend to affect those in middle-income brackets more than low-income workers...