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Brexit Math

December 20, 2018
Brexit has stalled as new information emerges about the costs for the United Kingdom to ending membership in the European Union. Prime Minister Theresa May delayed a December 11 parliamentary vote until mid-January, as members struggle to approve a draft plan that requires more negotiations to tie...

Ireland, Brexit and Opportunity: Conversation

February 7, 2019
Citizens and businesses of the Republic of Ireland have prospered with EU membership since 1973. Ireland embraced globalization, and the Irish, unlike a vocal group in Britain, do not express resentment about European goals and integration. Instead, EU membership improved Ireland’s relations with...

Border Chaos: Europe Reacts to Syrian Refugee Crisis

September 15, 2015
Thousands of families flee Syria, a nation devastated since 2011 civil war, a dictator’s crackdown with chemical weapons and infiltration by brutal extremists. Millions more people wait in barren refugee camps, lacking work and schools, near Syria’s borders. In just a week, more than 100,000 people...

Ethiopia to Plant 5 Billion Trees: Quartz Africa

June 11, 2020
Ethiopia has an ambitious plan to plant 20 billion trees by 2024, including 5 billion this year, part of the Green Legacy Challenge to confront climate change. The program costs more than 4 billion Birr, or $117 million, reports Samuel Getachew for Quartz Africa, adding, “The initiative has been...

The New Casinos – Emerging Markets

July 1, 2014
Financial analysts tout the potential of emerging economies for growth and wealth creation. While progress cannot be denied, the physical, institutional and financial infrastructures of many nations remain relatively weak, explains author and editor Anthony Rowley. He describes how Wall Street...

Preventing Misuse of Development Aid

August 18, 2006
The difficulties in the appropriation of international aid are nothing new, writes researcher Syed Mohammad Ali. Donor governments have long faced accusations of distributing aid to countries deemed strategically important while shortchanging other crises. Aid groups struggle to distribute...

US Falls Behind in Global Race for Talent

October 17, 2011
The US has long attracted the world’s top talent coming to its shores for study and work and benefited richly from their innovations. Advanced engineering, math and science programs of US universities depend on students from China, India and South Korea: More than a third of the US doctoral-level...

What Role for Global Governance?

August 22, 2016
Increasing interdependence among countries, combined with the ability for individuals or businesses to relocate to countries with few regulations has led to calls for more global governance. Disparate rules, such as when nations balk at reducing reliance on coal, have cross-border implications....
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