Mr Stiglitz, in contrast, depicted emerging economies as rowing boats on a wild and open sea.

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Window shutters are fastened closed, and empty rowing boats jostle about their moorings in the quays.

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Would they row, I asked the students, if the boats were simple rowing boats like the ones raced in at the Olympics.

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Vessels from dragon boats to Hawaiian war canoes compete in the race, set up by Stuart Wolff, who wanted to see more rowing boats on the Thames.

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