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    Is it possible to have a single optimal policy? According Alejandro Foxley, such policy does not exist.

    By Mark Maathuis // 08 April 2009

    Is it possible to have a single optimal policy? According Alejandro Foxley, such policy does not exist. The best that governments can do is to be ready to deal with issues and come up with feasible strategies at the right time, the Chilean foreign affairs minister says.

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        Mark Maathuis worked as an international correspondent for United Press International and reported for several Dutch magazines and Web sites on American politics, the "war on terror" and legal issues. He holds two master's degrees, one in journalism from American University and the other in civil law from Leiden University. Mark joined Devex in November 2007 as a fellow in our Washington, D.C., office and continued to contribute to our Web site the following year. He is a native speaker of Dutch, fluent in English, proficient in French and German, and speaks basic Italian.

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