EU, Mr Erdogan has recently paid more attention to cultivating Arab and African leaders.

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Prahalad, who began his working life managing an Indian battery plant for Union Carbide, is best known as a highly influential thinker on corporate strategy, and has more recently turned his attention to ways to help poor people around the world.

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But the government's restrictions on real-estate investment in Shanghai and nationally have gained more attention recently as the Chinese growth rate has slipped to 7.6% in the second quarter from rates exceeding 9% over the past decade.

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Obama, who recently turned his attention to the need for more clean-energy funding, has also asked U.N.

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Mr Fayyad's promise of a Palestinian state in August 2011 has won growing attention in the Arab world and elsewhere, including Europe and, more recently, among countries in Latin America that have been friendly to Israel, such as Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay.

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