Emerging markets such as Brazil and Uruguay need stability in order to sustain growth. The goal behind IMF and US foreign aid should thus be to provide stability. However, Paul O’Neill (US Treasury Secretary), the IMF, and US foreign aid serve more to hurt than to help economic stability, argues...
The International Monetary Fund's $30bn rescue package for Brazil and a $1.5bn US bridge loan to Uruguay signal the utter collapse of the ill-conceived US policy towards emerging markets announced barely a year ago...
美国可能会抵制全民医疗保健（universal health care coverage），但一些尚不富裕的新兴经济体正在耗资为全民提供医疗保健。美国对外关系委员会（Council on Foreign Relations）全球医疗问题高级研究员黄延中指出：尽管面临经济衰退，但近100个国家正在研究如何制定政府资助计划，为全体公民提供价廉的基本医疗并控制成本。仅印度、中国、印度尼西亚和南非四国人口就占全球总人口的近40%。在全球经济衰退之后制定这样的计划，这时机似乎很奇怪，但实际上却并非如此，因为各新兴经济体都依赖强壮健康的劳动力。由于许多发展中国家都是白手起家，...
纽约：这可能看起来有些奇怪，但随着整个世界从二战以来最严重的经济震荡中逐渐复苏，各国政府正在认真讨论如何扩大医疗保健覆盖面的问题。
这一波新兴的全民医疗保健（或简称UHC）浪潮已经席卷了近100个国家，这些国家全都在研究如何制定政府资助医疗保健的计划。在那些人口众多的国家和传统的全民医疗保健“盲点”（blind spots），如印度尼西亚、中国、印度和南非，全民医疗保健这个概念开始流行。这四个国家的人口加起来占世界总人口的40%。与美国不同，...
Common law is developed by precedents rather than specific statutes. Ingrid Wuerth notes for Lawfare that the federal common law of foreign relations is a shrinking field with court interpretations undergoing revisions over the years. “The field was built in part on the claim that customary...
Researchers have revised methods for measuring ocean surface temperatures, with the help of reliable measurement buoys. Thus, revisions in the historical data are in order. Because oceans cover three fifths of the planet, researchers’ estimates were low, and climate warming and melting of polar ice...
China announced on July 20 plans to conduct military exercises in areas of the South China Sea, including those under dispute with Vietnam. “The exercises overlapped with a high-level gathering of senior officials from China and the 10 members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, ASEAN,...
South China Sea power play: China conducted a live-fire drill, a show of force to Southeast Asian neighbors, top; US Secretary of State John Kerry shakes hands with Vietnam’s Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh, a show Southeast Asian countries rallying...
Pakistani security personnel adamantly insist that their nuclear arsenal is safe, but US security officials do not agree. Senior officials in the Bush administration worry that radical Islamist groups could gain access to the weapons by either seizing them or by infiltrating the labs as scientists...
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Portugal’s António Guterres, former head of the UN Refugee Agency, is officially the United Nations' secretary-general as of January 1, but the agreement “should not obscure the sharp differences among the Security Council’s leading members,” suggests Richard Weitz, director of the Center for...
Limited consensus: The consensus ends with electing Antonio Guterres as the next secretary-general, top, as big differences remain among the big powers; US President Barack Obama with China’s Prime Minister Li Keqiang
WASHINGTON: The surprising near...
Secular Europe and some of its Muslims citizens continue to clash – not in direct battle but over cartoons, operas, newspaper essays and school customs. The clashes are a product of a globalized media system, according to French journalist Patrick Sabatier, with instant information about any...
Shouting match to culture war? Acts of terror have brought tension to the surface between European secularism and all-embracing Islam. (Photo inset: Reuters) Enlarged image
PARIS: A year after the wave of violent...
