Ernesto Zedillo, director of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization, outlines in this Forbes Magazine commentary a fictional triumph for the Doha Round of trade negotiations. In the fantasy, the Doha Round sets the stage for a multilateral trading system that will soon lift all...
World leaders gathering at the UN 2005 World Summit Sept. 14-16 will hail the imminent and successful conclusion of the Doha Round of trade negotiations as one of the most significant achievements of international...
Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce behemoth, will spend about $600 million to sponsor the next six Olympic Games through 2028. The partnership was launched at the World Economic Forum in Davos by Alibaba founder Jack Ma and International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach, the partnership. In...
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South Korea has released a detailed action plan to reduce carbon emissions and “boost incentives for renewable energy and cleaner power plant projects,” reports Shin Hyon-hee for the Investor. “It intends to raise the share of renewable sources in its portfolio to 7 percent from the existing 6...
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The world has kept emissions that cause climate change in check for the third year in a row during a period when the prices of fossil fuels were low and global economic growth averaged about 3 percent per year. Natural gas has quickly replaced coal as an energy source, seven nuclear power plants...
Brazil, the world’s fifth largest nation in terms of territory, has more than 250 indigenous groups that make up less than 1 percent of the population, according to the country’s 2010 census. Many inhabit the Amazon River basin, the world’s largest river system with tracts of virgin rainforest....
Protecting people and nature: For Brazil's indigenous people, boundaries between the natural and human worlds are fluid; researchers document sustainable land-management practices of Amazon villages, and indigenous groups like Kayapo leaders...
The Middle East is in disarray and the international community is urged to tackle root causes of the conflict by focusing on the end of World War I and treaties behind many of the region’s borders. “Many groups came to Versailles to plead for the chance to determine their own futures only to...
Revising history: Self-proclaimed Caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi pronounced the Sykes-Picot Agreement's borders for the Middle East dead (top); in the midst of World War I, the secret agreement drafted in Europe divided the Ottoman Empire
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The internet, invented by US scientists, has no central point of control. More users are emerging beyond US borders and shaping the system: The US has less than 5 percent of the world’s population, but is responsible for about 25 percent of all internet traffic while Asia represents about 40...
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The development of nuclear technologies has become a matter of nationalistic pride for Iranians from all walks of life. The government of Iran has had a hand in cultivating this trend, but the mobilization of public sentiment is mostly due to the popular perception of the United States as an...
Say No to Pariahdom: Iranians accuse the US of using the nuclear issue to keep Iran down
TEHRAN: If you want to experience nationalism wrapped in nuclear power, this is the place. Officials, professors, and taxi...
