Following the footsteps of China, Indian firms have been investing in the Caribbean nations, building infrastructure in exchange for the opportunity to purchase natural resources. Foreign direct investments represent a large slice of the Caribbean economic pie; China and India could effectively...
Sweet tooth: India has a growing appetite for sugar, minerals and fuel; investments by Indian firms boost Caribbean industry, including this sugar plantation
NEW DELHI: As an emerging economic power, India finds that its...
Natural resources can be a boon to a nation's economy – just ask landlocked Botswana, which enjoyed tremendous growth, thanks to its diamond deposits. However, abundant minerals, gas, and oil can hinder a country's economic progress, if governments over-invest in such booming industries...
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During the Cold War, France emerged as a Western advocate for the interests of the Arab world. Although conventional wisdom ascribes this special relationship to economic and political calculations, foreign affairs specialist Pascal Boniface argues that France’s motivations are more complex. A...
Changing course? French presidential candidate Nicolas Sarkozy with
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. Will he change the traditional pro-Arab
policy of France? (Photo: Reuters)
PARIS: France is often described as having...
Preventing extremism requires funds, resources and mutual understanding about the nature of terrorism. In a working-class London neighborhood, some residents take steps to provide a forum for Muslims and local officials to meet and reduce ethnic tensions. Imtiaz Qadir, owner of an Islamic gym and...
LONDON – Soon after last year's suicide attacks here, officials in Walthamstow, a shabby east London neighborhood, joined with the area's biggest mosque and a privately run Islamic youth center to try to counter the...
When it comes to issues of conflict and hatred, debate is best managed with a calm, evidence-based approach, according to analyst Rami Khouri. The comment comes amid world condemnation for Iran hosting a conference that questions the Nazi effort during the mid-20th century to kill all Jews. Khouri...
Is there a rational, sensible middle ground between those who question or deny the Holocaust against the Jews and threaten to wipe out Israel, and those who maintain that Israel can do no wrong and must receive...
Nations closed the climate conference in Bali with vows to tackle climate change. Scientists are taking the government leaders at their word. Jim Hansen – director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in the US, who has long warned that global warming poses real dangers to the planet,...
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Anticipating the consequences of globalization is one way of adapting to the rapid change. Increasingly, individuals acquire wealth not so much through hard work or innovation than by predicting globalization’s intricate twisting paths. Cities and citizens in the developed nations, while they...
Modernity has entered a stage in which space and time are being transformed, the cause and consequence of which is globalization.
Globalized modernity is risky, we have to deal with unforeseen and unwanted...
It takes decades for a tree to mature – and only a few moments to chop that tree down. The World Bank reports that deforestation accounts for about 20 percent of global carbon emissions, mainly from setting fires to clear land. As plants, trees absorb carbon dioxide and release oxygen, and thus...
JAKARTA, Indonesia -- The global effort to stem climate change could soon include paying countries in the tropical belt to not cut down their rain forests, beginning with a World Bank pilot project.
The World...