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	<description>One life. Live it.</description>
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		<title>On capital, international development and raising the poor out of poverty</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2011/05/on-capital-and-international-development/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 08:11:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via The Economic Role of Saving and Capital Goods &#8211; Mises Institute (emphasis mine): What distinguishes contemporary life in the countries of Western civilization from conditions as they prevailed in earlier ages &#8211; and still exist for the greater number of those living today &#8211; is not the changes in the supply of labor and the ]]></description>
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		<title>21st Century Welfare &#8211; DWP</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2010/08/21st-century-welfare-dwp/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2010 14:14:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via 21st Century Welfare, the Coalition seeks views on proposals for welfare reform. Since I gave time to work for the Centre for Social Justice, these reforms are close to my heart: we must take people out of the present intergenerational cycles of broad spectrum poverty. Iain Duncan Smith&#8217;s statement in the main paper is encouraging, ]]></description>
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		<title>The Law in Action in Wycombe</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2009/11/the-law-in-action-in-wycombe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:59:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I spent this morning in the public gallery of one of Wycombe&#8217;s Magistrates&#8217; courts. What I saw could have been a study for the Centre for Social Justice. What I witnessed today included the following cases (I dispense with the details for obvious reasons): Casual theft by a man with a methadone problem. Taking a ]]></description>
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		<title>Meet the man who has exposed the great climate change con trick &#124; The Spectator</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2009/07/meet-the-man-who-has-exposed-the-great-climate-change-con-trick-the-spectator/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2009 11:07:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week, The Spectator writes Meet the man who has exposed the great climate change con trick: James Delingpole talks to Professor Ian Plimer, the Australian geologist, whose new book shows that ‘anthropogenic global warming’ is a dangerous, ruinously expensive fiction, a ‘first-world luxury’ with no basis in scientific fact. Shame on the publishers who ]]></description>
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		<title>World Bank warns on &#8216;human crisis&#8217; of high food prices</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2008/10/world-bank-warns-on-human-crisis-of-high-food-prices/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:05:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[World Bank president Robert Zoellick urged governments to act to contain a mounting &#8220;human crisis&#8221; today, as he warned that 44 million of the world&#8217;s poorest people would be driven into malnutrition this year, as a result of high food prices. read more &#124; digg story]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;A victim of the State&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2008/09/a-victim-of-the-state/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stevebaker.info/2008/09/a-victim-of-the-state/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:48:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A young homeless woman asked me to buy a Big Issue just outside the conference area and then asked me, &#8220;If you get in, what are you going to do about poverty in this county? The Government seems very keen to get in with everyone else, but what are you going to do in this ]]></description>
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		<title>Poverty: how well is DWP helping people?</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2008/09/poverty-how-well-is-dwp-helping-people/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stevebaker.info/2008/09/poverty-how-well-is-dwp-helping-people/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 22:19:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Poverty in Britain remains horrifying. For example, about 7% of households cannot afford a single hobby or leisure activity and a quarter cannot manage to save £10 a month for rainy days or retirement. Bleak. But the DWP plans to spend just over £130 billion in 2008. Surely some mistake, so I did a quick ]]></description>
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		<title>Helping the homeless, the bureaucratic way.</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2006/11/helping-the-homeless-the-bureaucratic-way/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stevebaker.info/2006/11/helping-the-homeless-the-bureaucratic-way/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Nov 2006 13:02:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a homeless man I see every day, who sleeps in a subway. He&#8217;s pleasant and harmless. He used to be a promising chef apparently. People choose to give him money: he never asks. He keeps himself smart and clean, thanks to a nearby centre that opens in the week, during the day. He&#8217;s handing ]]></description>
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