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Managing Globalization: Economies Have a Stake in Where Companies Find Employees

June 26, 2006
A growing interconnectedness of the global economy means companies will find skilled workers one way or another. The motives for companies to turn to outsourcing or the recruitment of immigrant labor are often similar: a domestic skills shortage, jobs that local workers will not take or the...

Wen Warns Against Renminbi Pressure

October 7, 2010
With the world’s largest population and concentration of manufacturing, China cannot revalue the renminbi quickly, contends Wen Jiabao, China’s premier. And pressuring China to do so could lead to global economic “disaster” is his assessment as reported by the Financial Times. Currency revaluation...

The Gordian Knot of Gaza

Tamara Cofman Wittes
March 6, 2009

Why the Americas Have Drifted Apart

November 3, 2005
When the Summit of the Americas first met, in 1994, it celebrated the spread of democracy in the Western Hemisphere and resolved to create a pan-American free trade zone by 2005. There will be no free trade pact and little celebration, however, when President Bush attends the fourth Summit of the...

India’s Skills Famine

April 18, 2007
Entrepreneurship in India has captured the attention of onlookers around the world. But despite many success stories, the world’s second most populated nation has run into a big challenge – a shortage of skilled workers. Education opportunities are limited, with only 10 percent of Indians pursuing...

Yahoo’s Mess of Pottage

September 21, 2005
That Yahoo helped the Chinese government track down a reporter now imprisoned for leaking information to pro-democracy groups is shameful, say many critics. That the company did so at a time when it seeks to expand its own journalism, writes Philip Browning, is intolerable. "[T]he spreading...

Melding Faith and Tolerance

July 2, 2006
Secularism dominated the globe for the last half-century, but a religious backlash of Islamic and Christian fundamentalism is making gains. Religious fervor is the reason behind some brutal violence, from blowing up abortion clinics to suicide bombings in Jerusalem. Citing the phenomenon as a...

China Owes Japan for Riots

April 21, 2005
Citing the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, Japanese officials and experts in international law say that Beijing must apologize to Japan and compensate for property damage incurred in recent anti-Japanese demonstrations. The windows of the Japanese embassy and consulates were shattered...
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