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Fair Trade for the Global Garment Industry

May 22, 2015
Profits and fast-changing styles in the global garment industry depend on low wages, long hours and dangerous workplaces in countries like Cambodia. Writing for the New York Times, David Welsh, country director of the AFL-CIO Solidarity Center in Cambodia writes: “the big brands reap billions of...

Theresa May Resigns: Politics.co.uk

May 24, 2019
Theresa May will resign as Britain’s prime minister June 7 after failing to achieve Brexit. She tried multiple approaches including a second referendum – but could not win over a majority in parliament. British voters, given many false assurances, chose to leave the European Union by a close margin...

The Future of Migration - Part Two

November 9, 2003
In Part II of a two-part series on the future of migration, economist Lant Pritchett argues that the forces building up to another wave of mass migration face opposition in the form of ideas. Simply put, he says, "the primary reason there is not more migration is that the citizens of the...

Chinese Businessmen Learn Western Table Etiquette

July 26, 2005
As their economy grows and international trade increases, Chinese businessmen are facing a new challenge in an unlikely setting: dinner meetings. Western etiquette is a mystery to many of these rising business elites, accustomed to using cellphones during dinner and loudly slurping their noodles...

Report: 61,000 Indian Millionaires Shifted Overseas in Last 14 Years

August 3, 2015
Wealthy individuals are mobile and can relocate to jurisdictions that offer competitive taxes, schools, business opportunities and security. Globalization and improved transportation, communications along with second citizenship have contributed to mobility. The report from New World Wealth and LIO...

“维基解密”之余波——上篇

January 12, 2011
“维基解密”（WikiLeaks）获得了25万份美国国务院电报，其中大约百分之一自12月初以来已在各家报纸上刊登出来。尽管美国官方对此勃然大怒，身份被透露的提供信息的人感到无比尴尬，但美国公民对此漠不关心，全球公众则为之深深着迷。这一组分为上下篇的讨论是对“维基解密”持续特别报道的一部分，旨在考察该事件的余波——即最近对政府机密的爆料是否有价值。在上篇中，记者布鲁斯•斯托克斯（Bruce Stokes）评估了对美国及其它国家实施对外政策的损害。迄今为止，世界各国领导人及全球公众都承认，敏感的外交磋商未必与公开的立场严丝合缝。在一个信息爆炸的时代，随着对更高透明度的呼声，泄密在所难免。...

We Have Your Number

January 21, 2011
Trade, technology and other facets of globalization have delivered wealth to India. But distribution of benefits is uneven in the nation of more than 1.1 billion, on track to exceed China as the most populous. The World Bank estimates that more than 35 percent of Indians live below the poverty line...

The Great Failure of Globalization

August 24, 2011
US and European leaders are in denial over realities of global capital markets and competition from Asia, contends Jeffrey Sachs, director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University. Sachs argues that rapid globalization, responsible for the sharp economic decline of the west, has...
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