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	<description>&#34;The Buddha collapsed out of shame.&#34;</description>
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		<title>The Role of Gender in Division of Labor</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 May 2012 04:18:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zahra Rasouli</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Zahra Rasouli Abstract: Historically the division of labor had been influenced by different factors such as class and race. However as more women enter the job market, the gender added to other segregation factors. Women have been associated with reproductive and domestic work, which made them invisible and socially marginal. The transition of women [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Balance of Power: An Opinion</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 May 2012 04:02:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mojtaba Salem</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Mojtaba Salem Let’s first develop a model based on insights from the behavioral sciences. Two parties can be either friend or foe to each other. I use “either-or” proposition on purpose. Their status depends on the direction of their interests. If one’s interests contravene that of the other, they perceive themselves as foes; if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Young Kuchis Break Away</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 07:32:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamil Danish</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Jamil Danish Life has changed for many since the fall of the Taliban. This is the story of one man who broke from tradition and start a new life. Not all Kuchis live in tents and roam the high plains of Afghanistan. Some like Daud, have escaped their traditional nomadic existence and have began [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is a Feminist Just War Theory Possible?</title>
		<link>http://www.buddhasemptyplace.com/2012/02/01/is-a-feminist-just-war-theory-possible/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 05:35:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zahra Rasouli</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Zahra Rasouli Abstract This study discusses the possibility of a feminist account of “Just War Theory” in the contemporary period based on the two principles of “just cause” and “last resort”. Thus, it argues that vagueness of the “just cause” concept is an ethical trap as a justification for war, and therefore, objectionable from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Neoliberal Capitalism: A Love Story</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 10:56:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mojtaba Salem</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Mojtaba Salem This piece is a critical reflection on Michael Moore&#8217;s &#8220;Capitalism: A Love Story.&#8221; On the global stage, economic interconnectedness means two things: a) bubble-liked prosperity b) chronic recession. A rapid economic development – similar to that of industrially advanced economies – blinds developing nations to the risks they have to undertake for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Microfinance Effects on Gender and Development Policy</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 10:43:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zahra Rasouli</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Zahra Rasouli Zahra Rasouli is a women right activist and currently student of MSc in Gender, Development and globalization at London School of Economics and Politics. She has also MPP from KDI school of Public Policy and Management in Development Management and Economic Policy in South Korea, where her thesis was about Leading Sectors in Afghanistan [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Selecting Budgetary Systems</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 08:17:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abrahim Rasouli</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Abrahim Rasouli The below paper is a class assignment for Managerial Accounting class at AUAF. Therefore, it is bound to the specific requirements of the assignments. Abstract This study tries to determine which factors are significant in setting up a budgetary system in an organization. Thus, this study finds four types of elements in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Afghanistan’s Banking Industry: Results and Prospects</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 04:01:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mojtaba Salem</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Mojtaba Salem This is the first of a four-piece analysis of Afghanistan&#8217;s banking industry. It is expected to notice the mergers and acquisitions of commercial banks in Afghanistan. To gain a larger market share, the leaders of the banking industry, e.g., MWB and Azizi Bank, might attempt to take over either small or poorly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wedding and its Episodes in Rural Kabul</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2011 04:35:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guest</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[From Life in Afghanistan]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Marriage in Afghanistan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[by Said Azam Eqbal Summary This research focuses on bride wealth, its importance, and the way it is administered in Allah Yar village, located in north of Kabul. Residents of Allah Yar village usually establish marriage relations among their own qawm and with people coming from GulDara at large. They also have made similar ties with people coming from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Afghanistan&#8217;s Economy</title>
		<link>http://www.buddhasemptyplace.com/2011/07/10/afghanistans-economy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jul 2011 05:07:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mojtaba Salem</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Mojtaba Salem &#8220;We certainly want to repeat the success. As for the failures, you have to be vigilant.&#8221; OMAR ZAKHILWAL, THE AFGHAN FINANCE MINSTER Afghanistan’s economy is growing slowly but surely. The growth of a market economy is the easy part; what seems to be challenging and crucial is the rate at which the [...]]]></description>
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