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MIAMI, Oct. 3 (UPI) -- Ecuador's oil-based economy is going to be further regulated and its foreign investors subject to greater scrutiny, according to the country's leftist leader, President Rafael Correa, who won a sweeping victory in this week's constitutional referendum vote on a new constitution.

The Bear's Lair: The Moral Hazard merchant

WASHINGTON, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- The International Monetary Fund, which met this weekend, plays an important role in third world finance, bailing out countries in difficulties and acting as an

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Think tanks wrap-up

WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 (UPI) -- The UPI think tank wrap-up is a daily digest covering opinion pieces, reactions to recent news events and position statements released by various think tanks. This is the first of several wrap-ups for Jan. 16.

Think tank wrap-up

WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- The UPI think tank wrap-up is a daily digest covering opinion pieces, reactions to recent news events and position statements released by various think tanks.

The Bear's Lair: Unnatural monopolies - II

WASHINGTON, Nov. 25 (UPI) -- It is a curious comment on the inflexibility of the human mind that, after an era in which breaking up public sector monopolies has been enormously fashionable - with both political parties in the U.S., in Asia, Eastern Europe, Russia, Latin America and e

Think tanks wrap-up

WASHINGTON, Oct. 29 (UPI) -- The UPI think tank wrap-up is a daily digest covering opinion pieces, reactions to recent news events and position statements released by various think tanks. T

Analysis: Will Lula default?

WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 (UPI) -- With four days to go until Brazil's Presidential election October 6, domestic and foreign holders of $280 billion (gross, $240 billion net) in Brazil's debt are biting their fingernails. If, as currently expected, Workers' Party leader Lula da Silva (know

Think tanks wrap-up

WASHINGTON, Sept. 26 (UPI) -- The UPI think tank wrap-up is a daily digest covering opinion pieces, reactions to recent news events and position statements released by various think tanks. T

Growth slowed in poor nations, says report

WASHINGTON, Aug. 19 (UPI) -- Low- and middle-income countries have fared worse in the past 20 years -- the so-called age of globalization -- than they did during the previous 20 years, and

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