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Promises, Promises: Will the G-20 Haunt or Help Obama Later On?

September 30, 2009
The results of the recent G-20 Summit in Pittsburgh could be a critical turning point in global integration given that the grouping has now replaced the G-8. It could also be a thorn in US President Obama’s side. According to Editorial Director of the Peterson Institute for International Economics...

Obama’s Biofuels Policy Tension

August 13, 2008
Ethanol subsidies are popular among voters in the American Midwest, where farmers grow millions of acres of corn to produce the biofuel. It’s no surprise, then, that Barack Obama – as a senator representing Illinois – has embraced such subsidies. Yet while ethanol may be popular politically, it...

Leftist Brazilian Victor Moves to Calm Nervous Markets

October 29, 2002
Brazil is suffering a severe economic crisis. In the past year, the value of Brazilian currency has fallen by 30 percent, and the people are hungry and frustrated. Many now look to President-Elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to guide their country out of dire economic straights. da Silva ran a...

欧亚心脏地带的全球化

February 29, 2012
将前苏联成员国的中亚诸国组织起来，看似一件轻而易举之事。哈德逊学院的高级研究员、政治－军事研究中心主任理查德•韦茨（Richard Weitz）认为，自1991年哈萨克斯坦获得独立以来，为经济目的和安全目的，推进区域一体化和全球一体化，一直是该国总统努尔苏丹•纳扎尔巴耶夫（Nursultan Nazarbayev）奋斗的目标。韦茨在报道中写道，目前为止，该国重点发展的项目包括改善区域交通、输油管道和通讯网络；降低关税和消除其它贸易壁垒；在加强劳动力流动方面的监管的同时，鼓励旅游业发展和其它非官方的货币兑换；推动哈萨克斯坦私营企业向其他欧亚国家投资，尤其是通过合资企业向这些国家投资。然而，...

Government Announces Reduction in Cost of ARVs

December 28, 2010
The South African government has negotiated with multinational pharmaceutical companies a plan to reduce prices of antiretroviral drugs by nearly half. The same 10 pharmaceutical firms that supply the medications will continue to do so, but with newly reduced prices, starting in January. Critics...

2 Nuclear Weapons Challenges, 2 Different Strategies

June 21, 2003
The U.S. has warned both Iran and North Korea that nuclear weapons programs will “not be tolerated”. But Washington is pursuing differing strategies with each country. With North Korea, which admits it already has weapons and is developing more, the Bush Administration is attempting to cut off...

Hussein Was Target of Bombing

March 20, 2003
Worldwide anti-war protests could soon become moot, if Saddam Hussein was indeed taken out on the first strikes on Baghdad. According to the Washington Post, US intelligence officials believe that Saddam Hussein was still inside a compound struck by bombs yesterday. Whether he was injured or...

‘Outsourcing’ Asylum Seekers The Italian Way

July 27, 2009
Italian authorities have cracked down on illegal immigration by patrolling the waters between Italy and Libya. If immigrants were allowed to reach Italian soil, they would be entitled to apply for asylum, a lengthy process that usually results in most applicants ultimately remaining in Italy,...
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