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Project Syndicate: Strong Dollar Weakness

August 24, 2018
The US dollar gained more than 8 percent value for the year and shows no sign of slowing. US officials credit growing business confidence, but Benjamin Cohen, writing for Project Syndicate, credits rising interest rates for increased dollar demand. The rising dollar makes US exports more expensive...

The Global Trading System – What Went Wrong: CFR

May 29, 2019
The turn of this century saw promising and exceptional development in the global trading system with the World Trade Organization and many other multilateral trade agreements. But during the last decade, the loss of jobs due to automation and outsourced labor has led to nationalist, anti-...

Your Job Is About to Get “Taskified”

February 18, 2016
Many in the digital industry are auditing jobs and identifying each task to increase productivity and give more assignments to temporary workers. “Corporations, from the smallest start-ups to the largest firms, can now ‘taskify’ everything from scheduling meetings and debugging websites, to finding...

India Graduates Millions, But Too Few Are Fit to Hire

April 8, 2011
According to statistics, Indian strength is its youthful population and an increasing number are graduates. But corporations report that it’s challenging, sometimes impossible, to recruit qualified applicants for an expanding workforce. Analysts pin the blame on an outdated education system, which...

Investors and Globalization’s Decline: Barron’s

March 18, 2019
The bout of protectionism and transactional approaches to trade will linger even after China and the United States reach a trade agreemen. “Globalization is being overwhelmed by populism, nationalism, and protectionism,” explain Avi Salzman and Nicholas Jasinski for Barron’s, adding that...

Climate Change and Capitalism: Guardian

June 2, 2019
Children witnessing climate disruptions express alarm about the future and question why governments fail to take action against the planet’s destruction. “Today’s children, as they become more politically aware, will be much more radical than their parents, simply because there will be no other...

China Dialogue: Processed Food Is a Global Health Crisis

December 12, 2017
Processed food and Western diets that are high in fats, sugars and salt are not healthy and also contribute to poor agriculture methods and climate change. Farming methods could reduce greenhouse gas emissions and help stem climate change, according to an agreement made during the UN COP23 summit...

Not by Bullying: Times of India

February 11, 2020
The World Health Organization reports more than 40,000 cases of the new coronavirus with 1000 deaths, exceeding the 2003 SARS death toll. Public health responses vary around the world, and China now relies on those to assess its ties with other nations. For example, China has chastised the United...
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