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Developing Countries Are Being Told to Spend Less When They Need to Build More
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Oil Production Can Grow Without Bringing Back the Jobs It Once Created
Canada's oil infrastructure plans reveal why expanding industrial production does not necessarily create employment on the scale communities expect.
