The number of NGOs continues to multiply worldwide, and competition for funding is intense. US-based foundations that contribute to international endeavors tend to promote human rights and democracy. But recipient programs in China are tightly monitored and controlled by the government, explains...
Top-down help: Chinese Minister of Health Chen Zhu (left) shakes hands with Bill Gates, co-founder of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, while signing an agreement on tuberculosis prevention and treatment
HONG KONG: Since the end of the Cold War...
Brazil is home to 1.8 million people of Japanese descent, the largest Japanese immigrant population in the world. The first Japanese immigrants came to Brazil in 1908 to work as coffee laborers after the abolition of slavery, and most had the opportunity to achieve an education and relative wealth...
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Trade policy is among the issues prompting US voters to coalesce around Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump as presumptive nominees for president. Clinton opposes the Trans-Pacific Partnership, calling for a crackdown on trade violations and more enforcement; Trump is critical of nearly all trade...
Skills and trade: Presumptive Democratic and Republican nominees, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, need smart policy to save both workers and trade, top; American workers queue up to look for jobs in Nassau, New York
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Around the globe, more women and men are delaying childbirth, with many deciding against having children altogether. Economic recession, high unemployment rates, education and career ambitions contribute to the phenomenon. Among most developed nations, one in 10 women in their late 40s have no...
All the single ladies: Childlessness is no longer rare with women's rising education levels; about one out of four Italian women in their late 40s have no children, top, and in India, it's about one out of 30
NEW YORK: While considerable media...
Amid a severe currency crisis and other economic struggles, cooperation of the European Union, the very union itself, is being tested with the rise of Islamist radicalism in North Africa. France has forcefully intervened to assist Mali troops against extremists who have taken over the northern half...
Towards a new Afghanistan? Islamists and Tuareg rebels overrun towns in Mali’s northern desert (top); French troops flown in to stem their advance
LONDON: As the European Union marks the 50th anniversary of one of its basic treaties, the most...
With the accelerating convergence of ideas and commodities, the world has more jobs available. Yet, many Europeans prefer job security to risky endeavors and resist the process of globalization. Pundits expected recent elections to decide the direction for Europe, but voters are polarized. Close...
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Despite a tangible threat of bird-flu transmission from neighboring Vietnam and Thailand where 18 deaths have been confirmed so far, the Jakarta administration is not taking sufficient preventive measures. Residents of the nation's capital say the Jakarta Health Agency's information...
Despite the wide media coverage on the outbreak of avian influenza, or bird flu, many Jakartans are relatively uninformed on the contagious disease due to a lack of a public health and information campaign by the...
James Tobin, the economist from whom the ‘Tobin tax’ takes its name, explains his reasons for a tax on currency speculation and what problems he originally intended the tax to solve. The tax he proposed was meant to be levied on all currency transactions. The cost of paying the tax would reduce de-...
More than 30 years after I first explored the idea of a levy on cross-border currency speculation, the "Tobin tax" is gaining popularity. In Europe, France's Lionel Jospin and Germany's Gerhard Schroder have both...
