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- Any article in most wanted articles, a requested articles, or desired expansions to an existing article. See especially Missing topics in Business and Economics and Business and Economics stubs for expansion.
- Economic topics about the developing world are badly needed. Some good ideas are "Agriculture in...", "Mining in..." and "Deforestation in..." for any developing country. If you look at the bottom of the articles Deforestation in Haiti, Agriculture in Chad, Agriculture in Cambodia, and Mining in Chad, you will see navigation boxes that link to other related articles. All of the red links in these boxes are missing articles--please write one of these!
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ECN 340 Global Economics
Prof. Paul Hamilton
Note to my students: Please link your articles below. I highly recommend that you put a note at the top stating something to the effect of {Under construction} to avoid deletion and heavy editing by someone else.
Note: Please do not tag articles with {{Underconstruction}} unless you are genuinely still working on them. Please do not add the tag simply to try to avoid the article being nominated for deletion. Cordless Larry (talk) 17:49, 2 May 2008 (UTC)