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    <title><![CDATA[Discussion on In India, Google funds campaign against bonded labor ]]></title>
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        <title><![CDATA[Some math]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I wondered: why not just use the US$2.5 million from Google to pay the debts?At current (official) exchange rate, the debt of Rp. 16K mentioned in the article is somewhat less than US$300.Assuming Rp. 8K is an average debt, US$2.5M would only help about 17,000 debtors.In a country the size of India, I'm assuming the problem is much larger than that.So, education and advocacy makes sense.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[dmm99]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2012 08:00:38 -0800</pubDate>
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