Despite the recent upsurge in business activity, skilled technology workers remain in weak demand in the US. Experienced and well-educated computer scientists and software engineers - many of whom boast PhDs - are falling victim to broad market forces that, until recently, have affected primarily...
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The speed and frequency of today’s travel has placed individuals at risk to the spread of many infectious diseases. As Nayan Chanda points out, governments facing these challenges should be more vigilant than ever to avoid future epidemics. Full cooperation with the WHO must also be achieved. In an...
The american airlines’ non-stop flight that takes passengers from Delhi to Chicago is a great boon to travellers. But the 16-hour journey inside an airline cabin also provides ample time for a carrier of contagious...
Leading Asia’s growing power and influence, China takes an increasingly assertive stance on historical territorial disputes. This two-part series examines foreign-policy conflicts in Asia and the potential for cooperation among economic giants – China, US and Japan. In the first article, Marvin Ott...
Shoring up: President Barack Obama with Philippines President Benigno Aquino III and Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, at the US-ASEAN summit meeting in New York
WASHINGTON: The second ASEAN-US leaders’ summit in New York may have conveyed the...
In an address at Yale University, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan, made a forceful appeal to the developed world to work towards an inclusive globalization. He said the world had no choice. “Either we help the outsiders in a globalized world out of a sense of moral...
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan
It is a great pleasure for me to visit Yale, and to pay tribute to the very important work that will be done by the Centre for the Study of Globalization. By devoting the remarkable intellectual resources of this...
Has the US led the world in promoting a pro-free trade agenda? Looking at the rhetoric emanating from Washington in the early days of the Bush administration, one may think so, says globalization scholar Susan Ariel Aaronson. But looking at Washington's actions over the past two years, we...
Despite White House statements to the contrary, the Bush administration and these anti-WTO protesters might be kindred spirits.
WASHINGTON: Despite its initial support for open markets, the Bush administration has...
During ceasefire talks in early May, Russia proposed creation of de-escalation zones, with itself, Iran and Turkey as guarantors. Partition is necessary, argue Carol E. B. Choksy and Jamsheed K. Choksy of Indiana University. “But having three nations that greatly abet the strife serve as enforcers...
Divide for peace: A bloody civil war among Syrian sects continues as parties meet in Astana, trying to find a solution
BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA: Syria was never a country whose 14 provinces and 8 main communities were voluntarily bonded together by...
医保向来和城市里面的“户口”以及“就业”紧紧地联系在一起。这个道理看似非常简单，前者关心的是“谁有资格来享受医保”，而后者关心的是“让那些有权享受的人承担这一成本”。从根本上讲，医保作为保险的一个种类，自然也遵循着“风险社会化即风险应当由全社会来一起承担”这样的原则。那么，从这两个前提和一个原则出发，我们自然可以得出这样一个推论：“在某个城市中，一名就业者，只要他持续地交纳有关医保的保险金，那么，他就应当有权享受和拥有该城市户口的居民所享有的同等医保待遇”。这个推论，实际上，在刘远举的分析当中，很难在现实当中得以贯彻，比如最近发生在北京外地男生交了医保金但是却因为没有北京户口而被“医保部门”...
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为了避免经济灾难，全世界的政府，从中国到美国，都在降低利率，提高货币供应量，制定刺激方案，鼓励公民去购物，以此来挽救工作岗位和修复经济。所有人都在关注美国，这个全世界最发达的经济体，个人消费构成了国民生产总值（GNP）的70%。但美国公民对这一解决办法不买账，把他们的钱包合得紧紧的。据一种经济理论所称，消费者在做出花钱选择时，倾向于将他们先前的收入与未来期待收入放在一起做通盘考虑。作者约根•欧斯鸠姆•莫勒（Joergen Oerstroem Moeller）解释说，全球住房市场的一个巨大泡沫曾鼓动消费者无节制地花钱；但随着价格下降，同样的消费者根据其收入而减低了支出。...
不合脚的鞋子：当经济下滑时，美国消费者心里想着存钱，远离了各大购物商场。
现在奥巴马政府加大力度，采取大规模的刺激方案来创造工作岗位，并要使人们再次投入消费。美国经济乃至世界经济的命运就指望奥巴马这番努力的成功。如果以史为鉴，人们以某一经济思想学派所预测的方式行事，那么前景看上去并不光明。人们更可能存钱而非花钱，除非公民确信，他们的未来收入将高于他们工作或生意的年收入总数。世界经济的健康状态取决于美国的表现，美国在近几年呈现为世界经济增长的主要动力。...
