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What to do about our unemployed doctors

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It’s official. Austerity budgets may be here to stay. Here’s how South Africa should be working with what it’s got to provide healthcare.
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Austerity is an assault on the poor

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Hyper-cartels now determine the global market, feeding the few and starving the many
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Recession risks hitting healthcare where it counts

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Experts warn state clinics and hospitals are likely to further deteriorate as the public purse shrinks.
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Fears as Durban loses last state cancer specialist

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Only two state cancer specialists remain in the province of more than 10-million people.
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Athens tears up austerity handbook

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The new leaders want to ease the 'humanitarian crisis' – but Greece's creditors are not impressed.
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Greece’s new leader moves to form anti-austerity government

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The election result marked a comprehensive rejection of the years of austerity demanded by the EU and IMF in return for the €240-billion bailout.
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Greeks take risky election gamble

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Failure to elect a new president will pit the ruling Samaras coalition against the popular radical left Syriza party.
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World Bank’s flawed report kicks SA’s poor in the teeth

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The institution has failed to retract a document that neoliberal politicians and commentators are using to advocate state spending cuts.
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War over Europe’s economic future heats up

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Resentment is growing over German chancellor Angela Merkel's leadership and fiscal austerity measures.
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Groundswell of anger over EU austerity

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Plans of a second day of action in European cities.
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Ask a lab rat: austerity hurts

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The failure of the British experiment should prove the point made by IMF economists.
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Paul Krugman goes against the grain

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A renowned academic is adamant that austerity and deficit reduction will not aid a recovery.
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Thousands protest against austerity in Europe

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Labour Day - or May Day - has triggered protests against harsh government spending cuts around the world, with some demonstrations turning violent.
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Christmas on a budget for austerity-struck Europeans

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Europeans are cutting down on Christmas shopping and pinching their pennies this festive season due to austerity measures.
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Austerity condemned, strikes planned in UK

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Tens of thousands of people protested in London against the government's austerity measures while union leaders called for a general strike.
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