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		<title>Go Green by going paperless &#8211; economic benefit</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 04:18:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Naveen Athresh</dc:creator>
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Earth hour initiative I had participated in 2008 and 2009
Other personal initiatives undertaken by me in past
With the Copenhagen summit on climate change and reducing carbon emissions making front page headlines for the last so many days now, I wanted to shed some impact of this on my personal paperless habits:
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		<title>India Post/USPS &#8211; a comparison on how they fare in this recession/operational metrics</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 04:17:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Naveen Athresh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Update: 8th September 2009
Today&#8217;s papers carried the news of Accenture being awarded the contract to operationalize and install a single software in all branches of India Post. India Post also says they have 9000 vacancies that would be filled by youngsters. Furthermore, India Post&#8217;s GPO at Bangalore has a brand new look and they have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ecofin.wordpress.com&blog=481625&post=1020&subd=ecofin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>IIFT EMIB</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2009 02:17:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Naveen Athresh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been exactly five long years since I joined for my EMIB (Executive Masters in International business) from the prestigious Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), New Delhi! I joined it on 9th August 2004. Time flies! But can say for sure that this degree has been my best investment made on education till date. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ecofin.wordpress.com&blog=481625&post=1007&subd=ecofin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I voted, did you vote?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 06:31:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Naveen Athresh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is no point criticizing the Government, the public offices, the institutions, the politicians etc. if you don&#8217;t exercise your fundamental right and cast your vote. So, get up and vote &#8211; for a change. Let&#8217;s make India a better place to live in!
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		<title>Economic recession and a pandemic &#8211; correlation</title>
		<link>http://ecofin.wordpress.com/2009/04/29/economic-recession-and-a-pandemic-correlation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 05:28:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Naveen Athresh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It appears this correlation appears to be quite high. The last economic crisis hit in 2001 with the dot com and telecom bubble burst and that was instantly followed by 9/11 and then the SARS crisis in South East Asia and the Anthrax cases in USA.
This time, there was an economic crisis that hit the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ecofin.wordpress.com&blog=481625&post=898&subd=ecofin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Votonomics</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 05:30:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Naveen Athresh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I got my new voter id card (I had an old one issued in 2005 as well) yesterday. The process is quick and painless but the queue isn&#8217;t. I had to make my way through a long serpantine queue for almost 3 hours &#8211; thankfully, the saving grace was the sun had set and this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ecofin.wordpress.com&blog=481625&post=884&subd=ecofin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Should a recession affect your purchasing decision making?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2009 03:42:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Naveen Athresh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is the reduction in purchasing decisions/actual purchases made a good thing or a bad thing during recessionary times. While technically, India is still motoring along at over 5.5% GDP growth and is tipped to be the 2nd fastest growing economy in the world for 2009 (a miserable year for other world economies), should the discerning [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ecofin.wordpress.com&blog=481625&post=813&subd=ecofin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Berkshire Hathaway Annual report 2008 / a must read</title>
		<link>http://ecofin.wordpress.com/2009/02/28/berkshire-hathaway-annual-report-2008-a-must-read/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2009 14:16:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Naveen Athresh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/2008ar/2008ar.pdf
You can&#8217;t be mistaken when you are reading from the greatest punters in the Financial space &#8211; Warren Buffett. The Chairman&#8217;s letter to shareholders did not dissappoint me. It was filled with the usual interesting titbits on his insurance ops and business, the concept of insurance &#8216;float&#8217;, his profit margins, the stake he took in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ecofin.wordpress.com&blog=481625&post=809&subd=ecofin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Barack Obama &#8211; Mr. President of the United States of America!</title>
		<link>http://ecofin.wordpress.com/2009/01/22/barack-obama-mr-president-of-the-united-states-of-america/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 14:22:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Naveen Athresh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[He is the ultimate modern tech savvy Blackberry wielding Mr President of the United States of America. For once, I see genuine hope in the way the US will go about sorting out its financial mess and it&#8217;s foreign policies.
Checkout: http://www.whitehouse.gov
As with most Americans and millions from other countries and their citizens, I did not [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ecofin.wordpress.com&blog=481625&post=711&subd=ecofin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nortel networks Corp. files for bankruptcy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:29:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Naveen Athresh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the jewels of the 1990&#8217;s boom in the telecom sector, Nortel networks Corp. (NYSE: NT) filed for bankruptcy as quoted by Marketwatch.
I have watched this stock closely alongwith it&#8217;s peer, Lucent (now, Alacatel-Lucent) then in 2001 and have seen them in their glory days before the bust of the dot com and telecom [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ecofin.wordpress.com&blog=481625&post=697&subd=ecofin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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