Brazil, the world’s seventh largest economy and sixth most populous nation, is host to the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympics. The global focus highlights the nation's ongoing need to confront social challenges at home including deficits in infrastructure investment and development, suggests...
Local and global pull: Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff plays at international arena, signing internet civil rights bill at a world internet conference (top); citizens protest government expenditures on hosting global events
RIO DE JANEIRO: The...
Scientific research in any sector introduces innovations that deliver new products and jobs for society. The science during periods of peace may produce more innovations than the science of war, and Satyajit Das, writing for MarketWatch, points to the end of the Cold War as an example: “scientific...
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Satyajit Das is a former banker and author of The Age of Stagnation (Prometheus Books)
The US economy is growing, but employment is not keeping pace. A reliable supply of natural gas and dropping prices, high-tech manufacturing, and big-data analysis offer economic promise. Technology of all kinds contributes to efficiency and productivity. Firms consider returning facilities in the...
Headwinds of globalization: High-tech increases productivity, but replaces labor (top); ranks of unemployed soar
BERKELEY: The US economy seems to suffer from a bout of schizophrenia, as it cannot decide whether it’s doing well or not. There has...
US President Barack Obama and other members of his administration have long labeled the Islamic State as a “cancer” that must be eliminated. Destroying ideological fervor is not easy, and extending the president’s analogy can offer a useful way for determining strategies for defeating the Islamic...
Surgical strike? US aircraft bomb to stop the spread of malignant ISIS, top; cancer patient undergoes surgery
LOS ANGELES: The spate of attacks led or inspired by the Islamic State from Europe to Jakarta has upended confidence that governments...
The world has reached consensus: Climate change is a serious threat, and each nation can play a role in reducing fossil fuel emissions. The Paris Agreement relies on a voluntary approach for developing policies for transitioning away from fossil fuels. “The biggest challenge with voluntary...
Climate threat and no copping out: From left, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon, Laurent Fabius and French President Francois Hollande celebrate signing of historic agreement on combatting climate change, top; 1987 Montreal Protocol on ozone...
Over their lifetime Aedes aegypti mosquitoes may not wander more than a few hundred meters from the source where they emerged as larva without human intervention. Still, the range for the insects is widening, and they have a presence on every continent. Mosquitoes are vectors for multiple blood-...
The shadow of a new global pandemic could soon loom over India. Scientists believe that the newly revealed Zika virus that is exploding in South America is carried by the same Aedes aegypti mosquito that has been proliferating in India, doubling the...
Ongoing use of force in the Middle East is weakening the United States. Sociologist Immanuel Wallerstein argues the country’s problems are structural and briefly outlines the history of US conflicts throughout the latter part of the 20th century. The unnecessary US invasion of Iraq in 2003...
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