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/ 13 January 2008
President Nicolas Sarkozy’s talk of creating a new growth and well-being index for France is part of a mounting global campaign that many economists believe will shape civilisation and democracy in the 21st century. Sarkozy presented his recruitment of Nobel prize-winning economists Jospeh Stiglitz and Amartya Sen to work on a quality-of-life index.
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/ 9 September 2005
Hurricane Katrina delivered a "severe" shock to Gulf of Mexico oil supplies, wrecking pipelines and damaging scores of platforms, but 90% of production can be back on stream within a few months, the International Energy Agency said on Friday.