Since the 2010 earthquake, billions of dollars in aid have poured into Haiti. But most of this money has gone towards salaries for expatriate NGO workers, not towards rebuilding Haiti. The trend has created a class of well-compensated expats who take jobs that might have gone to Haitians and drives...
The devastating earthquake that struck Haiti five years ago was followed by a flood, as billions of dollars were poured into a reconstruction effort largely led by private non-governmental organizations.
Almost immediately, Haitians, activists, and...
The precipitous drop in trade last year as a result of the global financial crisis was evidence of the heightened interconnectedness of the world’s major economies. But such interconnectedness was also one reason why trade protectionism – the bogey everyone feared would send the globe into another...
As the world economy edges away from the precipice, we can see the enormity of the catastrophe we averted. In the first 12 months of the financial crisis, world industrial output fell at nearly the same rate as during the first year of the Great...
The gulf between Iran and the United States is wide. Iran’s Fars News Agency reports that US National Security Agency documents released by a former contract worker suggest that a shadow government of aliens ran Nazi Germany, intent on world domination, and now runs the United States, also intent...
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An avalanche of secrets exposed by a former National Security Agency contract worker is complicating US relations with southern neighbors. Reports allege that the United States spied on countries regardless of poor or good relations. Stopping the Bolivian president’s plane in Europe for a few hours...
Trading accusations: The Bolivian president's aircraft is forced to land and searched by Austrian police in the Vienna airport (top); Brazilian President Rousseff with President Morales, united in denouncing the US
MEXICO CITY: The Latin American...
Coca-Cola and PepsiCo executives were confident that they could handle allegations, made by the Center for Science and the Environment, that products sold in India contained pesticides. But executives did not anticipate how quickly the news would spread through India, how local politicians would...
NEW DELHI When allegations of pesticide contamination were published on the front pages this month in India, Coca-Cola and PepsiCo executives were breezily confident that this was a crisis they could handle...
News spreads quickly via the internet, and research suggests that increasing numbers of US adults rely on social media for their news. “There are hundreds of fake news websites out there, from those which deliberately imitate real life newspapers, to government propaganda sites, and even those...
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Craig Silverman and Lawrence Alexander report for BuzzFeed on fake news sites in Macedonia: “Teens in the Balkans Are Duping Trump Supporters With Fake News.”Snopes.com reviews internet rumors for accuracy.
Two years ago, to much fanfare, China and Brazil entered into a bilateral trade partnership, hoping to propel both populous, ambitious nations to the top of the development heap. With increased exports to China, Brazil made modest economic advances since entering the trade agreement. But in the...
SÃO PAULO, Brazil -- At a huge chinese art exhibition shortly after he took office in 2003, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was effusive about the bilateral relationship. "If the Chinese believe in China...
A proposal in the US Congress would impose tariffs on nations that keep their currencies artificially low. “But many around the world fear getting trampled as the United States and the Chinese battle each other,” explains this article in the New York Times. Japan, Brazil and other nations follow...
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