Is bilateralism the only viable option for India and Pakistan to resolve long standing disputes over territory? The answer, for now, appears to be yes, according to this editorial in India's The Hindu newspaper. Pakistan has insisted on third party mediation on Kashmir, a state claimed by...
INDIA AND PAKISTAN have in the past few days relearnt the bitter lesson that there is no alternative to bilateralism and that their dependence on a third party leaves them with less than half the loaf each. The...
S补贴使市场发生了扭曲，并抑制了替代品的研发。燃料补贴尤其成问题，因为能源是一切经济体的支柱。就能源的生产和消费而言，整个世界可谓一个不公平的竞技场，其不公平性体现在能源储量、税收、法规、公共与私人所有权的对比，以及可得收入等方面。突然取消燃料补贴将会沉重地打击那些最贫困的人。由于几乎没有现成的替代品，化石燃料在经济方面属于高度缺乏弹性的产品——对此种必需品的消费不因价格上涨而大幅减少。那些购买石油的富裕国家通常会设定有利于少数人的合同条款，而石油资源丰富的发展中国家则提供了有利于中产阶级和穷人的补贴。即便在能源匮乏的国家，补贴都有利于政治和经济的稳定。取消补贴，但又没有实施替代性的支援计划...
补贴还是不补贴：正如拍摄于尼日利亚的两张照片所显示的，在燃料补贴是否有好处这个问题上，世界舆论产生了分化：一个女性团体支持取消补贴（上图），而其他人则希望维持补贴。
韩国大田：亚洲和非洲的发展中国家正面临越来越大的压力：通过削减燃料补贴来平衡预算。同样，那些资源丰富的国家也遇到了取消补贴的压力，因为这些补贴使市场发生了扭曲。替代性能源的倡议者们则怪罪燃料补贴抑制了新型产品的研发。
在发展中国家，许多人以每天2美元的生活水平勉强度日。在全世界70多亿人口中，大约有半数都属于这一类。因此，...
Global debt has reached $217 trillion, equal to a record 325 percent of global gross domestic product. “High levels of debt do not in themselves indicate an impending crisis,” explains Anthony Rowley, author and long-time business editor. “But when a dramatic surge in borrowing is followed by a...
Ready for the next crisis? Tim Adams, head of the Institute of International Finance, warns about mounting corporate debt that could trigger the next financial crisis, left, and repeat the mayhem of the 2008 financial crisis
TOKYO: There are...
Former US President Jimmy Carter analyzes the new Palestinian government under Hamas and finds that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas retains certain key powers. Abbas can appoint a prime minister who recognizes Israel and endorses the “road map.” As the leader of the PLO, Abbas can also...
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Emmanuel Macron won the French presidential election without support of a traditional political party on a platform of strengthening the European Union in revolutionary ways. But the yellow-vest protests that began over a fuel tax are eroding his authority. He has led numerous reforms for the...
Russia used social media to disrupt the 2016 US presidential election and under-cut some of the world’s most innovative companies in the process – “weaponization” in the words of the Financial Times. Facebook, Google, YouTube and Twitter encourage political comment and gather personal data, then...
The rapid success of the US in the Iraq War shocked many in the Arab world, says this article in Egypt's Al-Ahram Weekly. But what are the lessons to be learned? Commentator Ibrahim Nafi writes that Arab unity cannot emerge by simply updating old agreements. What's required, he says,...
Following recent events in the region we hear the same refrains over and over again. Arab cooperation has failed. Now is the time to sort out the chronic obstacles that make our agreements hardly worth the paper they're...
In the largest demonstration since Hong Kong passed over to Chinese control in 1997, hundreds of thousands of protesters took to the street on July 1. While the protesters are against a planned anti-subversion law, the issue at stake is more than simply free speech - it is also about the continued...
Protesters in Hong Kong on July 1: Article 23 threatens not just freedom of information but economic prosperity.
The Hong Kong Legislative Council is debating legislation that would potentially enable the government...
