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Call Centre Boom is Here to Last

September 1, 2003
Multinational companies seeking lower-wage labor will be increasingly looking to India to run their telephone call centers, concludes a recent survey by a British market analysis firm. Predicting a "21st-century gold rush" of MNCs moving to India, analyst Evan Kirchheimer says five to...

Full Steam Ahead for America's Empire

November 6, 2004
In his pre-election campaign, John Kerry pledged that the United States under his administration would exercise restraint and follow a multilateral strategy alien to the last four years of US foreign policy. With the presidency of George W. Bush reconfirmed, many observers anticipate an even more...

U.N. Official Plans to Urge U.S. to Reconsider Farm Subsidies

September 24, 2003
The director of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) may find his message to Washington falls on deaf ears. With the 2004 presidential election on the line (and agribusiness's lucrative campaign donations very much in every politician's mind), congressmen and White House officials...

Across Latin America, Mandarin Is in the Air

September 26, 2006
As a major customer of Latin America’s agricultural, energy and mineral resources, China has become a target of interest throughout South America. As a result, more business people in Argentina, Peru, Colombia and Chile study Chinese language. The US is the leading investor in South America, and...

South Africa's Exodus

June 20, 2007
The South African government’s strategy for economic stability, pushing annual growth to 6 percent and controlling inflation, is threatened by spending outpacing productivity. A substantial shortage of skilled workers could lead to a rise in prices. The public sector bears most of the burden, with...

A Fear That the Cure Could Be Poison

February 1, 2008
Central banks like the US Federal Reserve raise interest rates to slow an economy and lower them to stimulate it. But economists admit that a complex global economy, with transactions moving at rapid pace, complicates their task. Economist must wait for data to come in long after an economy reacts...

Why the Financial Crisis and What is the Way Out

Carmen Reinhart
October 7, 2010

Rock of Agents

January 30, 2006
The recent spying spat between the UK and Russia has injured more than British pride. Russian officials allege that an NGO-liaison at the UK’s embassy in Moscow maintained links with the British intelligence agency MI6, conducting espionage. The timing is troubling: The revelation not only adds...
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