Foreign investors in any land are put off by any trade and investment practices that discriminate against them. Protectionist practices in China include a lack of respect for intellectual property and market barriers. Changes in political leadership and concern over outsourcing jobs throughout...
For Europe, the "China honeymoon" is over. As the 10th European Union-China summit meeting convenes in Beijing this week, and after 15 years of rapidly and dramatically developing ties, there are numerous indications of...
The indirect costs of growing biofuels outweigh any benefits, report two studies in the journal Science. A new political and economic response is required on biofuels, suggests Christopher Flavin, president of the Worldwatch Institute, in response. The US government now provides tax incentives to...
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Fish is a favorite food for the global palate. Since 1982, a United Nations treaty allowed countries to restrict fishing within 231 miles of their coasts. Poor African nations, such as Mauritania or Senegal, found a lucrative source for cash when they started selling fishing rights to wealthy...
NOUADHIBOU, Mauritania -- Sall Samba prospered for years by catching octopus in the bountiful seas near this scruffy port town on Africa's west coast.
Today, he struggles to catch half what he did just a few...
Yellow fever in Tennessee? Malaria in Russia? Chikungunya in northern Italy? There is no denying the fact that mosquito-borne diseases once thought of as strictly tropical now conquer cooler climes. The World Health Organization blames global warming, but Paul Reiter, writing for the Straits Times...
PARIS – A World Health Organisation official has claimed that the current viral outbreak of chikungunya in northern Italy is the result of climate change.
This widely reported absurdity undermines rational...
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s trip to Europe this week was once thought especially important because it was an opportunity to build ties with Angela Merkel, whose right-of-center leanings were thought to make her a natural ally of the Bush Administration. Merkel, however, faces a...
Fresh allegations about the Central Intelligence Agency’s use of US military airports in Germany to ferry detained suspected terrorists threaten to derail an attempted reconciliation between the two countries....
Recent WTO announcements suggest that Germany is effectively handling with the forces of globalization to maintain a flourishing and beneficial trade position, writes F.A.Z. Weekly. Germany's exports have increased steadily, especially compared with other euro countries whose exports have...
Germany is suffering from globalization. Competitive pressure from low-wage countries is keeping the economy in the doldrums. This widely held impression runs counter to actual developments. All the...
Many West Africans pool funds to finance their own illegal immigration to the Spanish Canary Islands by boat. Fish was the lead export for Senegal in 2003, but the bountiful oceans of Western Africa have long been decimated by massive foreign fishing trawlers that took advantage of the coast’s once...
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The stalemate in the Doha Round could yet be overcome, suggests Pascal Lamy, director-general of the World Trade Organization. Disputes over subsidies for agriculture and rich nations stalled the trade agreement. According to Lamy, the strongest advocates for slashing subsidies balk at opening...
GENEVA Dear trade minister,
The trauma generated by the collapse of global trade talks may not yet register on the streets of New York, Paris or Tokyo. But for cotton growers in West Africa, rice farmers in...