Democracy requires hard work, patience, compromise and trust. Citizens may be dissatisfied with a leader but must stay informed and engaged in politics. Yet support for democracy around the world is in decline. The University of Cambridge’s Centre for the Future of Democracy analyzed data from more...
With American auto-insurance, credit cards, and medical x-rays, not to mention software development and IT needs, already managed by trained professionals in India, it was only a matter of time until Indian enterprise asserted itself on the culture of global consumerism. An article in The Wall...
As one of Leo Burnett's Italian ad agencies pitches for part of the European business of Coca-Cola Co. this month, it has some unlikely competition: Leo Burnett India.
"Business is highly competitive, and...
After 9/11, the US airlines laid off more than 10,000 pilots, many still out of work. As US airlines struggle, the pilots take early retirements and fret about the safety of pension plans. Many abandon seniority systems or union protection in the US to land jobs with the booming aviation industry...
Nearly two years ago, at age 51, Brian Murray took early retirement from US Airways. The pilot was outraged by the airline's termination of his pension plan and worried about his future with a carrier sliding toward...
After Copenhagen, Europe learned that leading by example is not enough. Lacking the power of a China or a US in the environment debate, Europe will need to balance shifting alliances in a multipolar world to combat climate change. Such green diplomacy is even more important in an interconnected...
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China has long insisted its goal is a peaceful rise, but Asia’s largest economy has ruffled the feathers of close neighbors along the way. Hu Jintao, outgoing president, bears some responsibility, suggests Stein Tønnesson of the East Asian Peace program, University of Uppsala. Assertive language,...
Asians push back: Japan defies China by inviting the Dalai Lama to the Diet (top); Filipinos protest against Chinese territorial claims
STOCKHOLM: As party Secretary General Hu Jintao hands over the baton to Xi Jinping, it’s a good time to assess...
Businesses prepare for the chaos of worst-case Brexit scenarios, reports an Ernst & Young Global Limited survey. For financial services companies, that includes plans to transfer £1 trillion in assets from the United Kingdom to Europe. British negotiators struggle to reach a deal that includes...
Better united or divided? With Brexit, both the United Kingdom and the European Union can expect to lose global economic clout, defined as a percentage of global GDP (Data sources: Trading Economics and Statista)
The bulk of the world’s extremely poor population lives in Africa, but rates worldwide have slowed. The achievements of Asian economies like India cannot be denied, yet as more people escape poverty, life becomes harder for those left behind – this is known as the base effect. In 2015, the United...
Read the article from Brookings about the slowdown in global poverty reduction.
Homi Kharas is the Interim vice president and director of the Global Economy and Development program. In that capacity, he studies policies and trends influencing...
The interrogation of the prime suspect of the Bali blast in October and forensic evidence have raised the tantalizing possibility that the attack was a suicide bombing. If this turns out to be true this would be the first suicide attack by a Muslim in Indonesia, perhaps in Southeast Asia. While...
Indonesian police say they have found books and video discs of speeches by Osama bin Laden in a house rented by the suspected mastermind of last month's Bali bombings.
Police say a laptop computer belonging...
