Some analysts anticipate that successful populist campaigns, with irresponsible campaign promises and unrealistic goals, could plunge Latin America into economic disaster and thus reverse democratic gains from the past 20 years. Yet former Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo, now director of the Yale...
Mortification, tinged with depression, seemed to color the mood of Latin American participants at January’s World Economic Forum in Davos. Their gloominess stemmed from the fact that this year countries in the region...
The steady outflow of jobs, especially white-collar ones from the US is emerging as a major issue in the US. In part one of our three-part series on the outsourcing debate two scholars explain the reasons. In recent years, US manufacturing jobs have declined as corporations looked for cheap labor...
A Call Center in India: While American companies are saving a lot of money, their employees are looking at pink slips.
SAN FRANCISCO: Will the next wave of globalization come in services? Though moving service...
Globalization is a complex phenomenon, which New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman has famously explained with the metaphor of a "flat world." According to fellow globalization expert Jagdish Bhagwati, however, "The notion of a flat world is as wrong metaphorically now as it was...
Metaphors matter. They define how one sees reality, as when the phenomenon of skilled emigration turns into the problem of "brain drain," evoking the image of a leaky faucet that few can regard with equanimity...
In 2013, Prince Muhammad bin Salman, at 28, was a lawyer and his career soared after his father became king of Saudi Arabia in 2015. In swift order, he became the country’s defense minister, head of the Council for Economic and Development Affairs, chairman of the Public Investment Fund, deputy...
Son also rises: Saudi Defense Minister and then-Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman welcomes US President Donald Trump; under bin Salman’s command, Saudi aircraft bomb Yemen capital of Sana’a
LONDON: In 2013, a 28-year-old Saudi prince...
The current global economic order is under strain, and the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund could pursue reforms and take steps to adjust to new economic realities, preventing disintegration and disorder, argues Mohamed A. El-Erian for Project Syndicate. The current order is rooted in...
After demanding concessions from allies by imposing steel and aluminum tariffs in March, US President Donald Trump has instigated a trade war with China without a strong global coalition for support. Analysts suggest that China, an authoritarian regime lacking in democratic or free market oversight...
Cyprus, with a population just over 1 million, is posing big challenges to global financial markets. The government failed to pass a €10-billion package that would have taxed bank deposits to pay for the rescue – 6.75 percent for deposits less than €100,000, 9.9 percent for those with more. “None...
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President Hosni Mubarak traveled from Cairo to Geneva for the first World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) with one message: African, Middle Eastern, and Latin American states must work together to develop their capacities as "IT-savvy" states. President Mubarak envisions a well-...
President Hosni Mubarak told a preparatory meeting for the first World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) that he was committed to transforming Egypt into a modern, IT- savvy society. "We are building bridges to...
