Searching for new leadership
First scenario: the stimulus plans work quickly and the world economy recovers by the end of 2009. Second scenario: the stimulus plans do not work and the economy falls into a serious depression until the end of 2010. Third scenario: economic nationalism and trade wars return. Fourth scenario: the global recession lasts an entire decade.
The United States starts to bring back social discourse
The World Bank is on trial as frightened investors flee the country
A new round of elections in a region showing diminished growth
Will there be a paradigm change in the United States?
The renovation of infrastructure, the launch of an efficient, green industry and the improvement of the health care and social security systems: these are the three pillars of Obama’s political economy to respond to the crisis. The risks? Racking up an exorbitant public deficit and adding more difficulties to his term, say the skeptics.
The new administration launches an aggressive climate and energy plan
Barack Obama has done more for the environment in a week than George W. Bush in eight years. However, the road is littered with obstacles, and the economic difficulties and challenges abroad can strongly influence any green advancement in the future.
Democratic socialism at the forefront, or the fall of neoliberalism?
Why Moscow will introduce a new energy policy
The problem with trying to teach in a foreign language
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Sindication
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It is impossible to understand or act on the intense collapse of the American and global economy without taking the ethical failures into consideration.
A recent World Bank report accuses many high-ranking officials in the Philippines of collusion. The government’s response demonstrates how everyone gets away with corruption in the country. Could this be at the root of the country’s competitiveness?
Chile and Uruguay will kick off a new round of elections in Latin America at the end of the year. Will there be a shift towards the center or will the left reassert its dominance? How will the electoral results in these two countries influence the rest of the Latin American elections?
This very serious crisis and the arrival of a leader with ideas have coincided. Obama has brought back hope for another renaissance to the world.
Learn about the effective short, medium and long term solutions that would allow the EU to avoid having to deal with a lack of gas during future winters. For the time being, the problem between Russia and the Ukraine is far from having been definitively and satisfactorily resolved.
Filipino students’ scores on the annual international student performance tests in math and science are some of the lowest in the world. Some education policy experts believe that the trouble lies in the language being used for instruction: English.
