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I'm a former [short-term] Executive Director of the World Bank (2002-2004) for Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Spain and Venezuela. I write this blog to echo my voice and my noise. Though I know many will only be able to read it in yellow or blue, I do make an effort to write it in green. The Radical Middle or the Extreme Center is not any wishy-washy place to be, in a world where swimming to any of the ideological shores provides for a much calmer shelter.
My Voice and Noise links
- On subprime bank regulations
- Global coallition of oil-cursed citizens
- Tea with FT
- On climate change and the environment
- On unsustainable debt sustainability
- One Child One Vote
- Petropolitan
- El radical del medio
- On the Caribbean and tourism
- A full year of songs - Un año completo de canciones
- There is de facto an American Union
- You talk the talk but do you dare this walk?
- Voice and Noise, the book 2006
- Centroamérica y sus ciudadanos modo 4
To contact me
I have no time to monitor comments on the blog but if you want to make a comment you can always do so at: perkurowski@gmail.com
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