TOUGH ISSUES, TOP LEADERS JAN 9, 2017 – How did a remote Swiss mountain resort, and the highest town in Europe, become the site for the most important leaders from around the world to meet and debate pressing global challenges? (SRF, swissinfo.ch, cp) Born in Germany, Klaus Schwab became a […]
External borrowings vital for reducing pressure on domestic liquidity Published: 13:05 January 1, 2017 Babu Das Augustine, Banking Editor Dubai: In the absence of further increase in oil prices and or drastic cut in government expenditures, analysts expect Saudi Arabia’s budget gap to be wider than the original estimates […]
AUGUST 8, 2014 BY ATIF MIAN AND AMIR SUFI Economists of all stripes are baffled by continued economic weakness in the United States. The easiest way to see the weakness is to compare where we are in terms of GDP today relative to historical trend growth, something we did in […]
JEFF RAIKES Jeff Raikes is Co-founder of the Raikes Foundation, former CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and, previously, President of Microsoft Business Division. He is a board member of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA). SEATTLE – Picture a small farm under a […]
Dec 21,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – Michael Jansen Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan reacted to Monday’s assassination of Andrey Karlov, Russia’s ambassador to Turkey, by vowing to redouble efforts to normalise relations between their countries. Ties have been strained by the war in Syria, where […]
Dec 04,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – Dani Rodrik Global governance is the mantra of our era’s elite. The surge in cross-border flows of goods, services, capital and information produced by technological innovation and market liberalisation has made the world’s countries too interconnected, their argument goes, for any country to be […]
Nov 23,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – Kelli Wells Understanding the future of work is difficult, if not impossible. According to the MacArthur Foundation, 65 per cent of today’s schoolchildren will eventually be employed in jobs that do not exist yet. As technology, globalisation and many other factors continue to redefine work, […]
Nov 19,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – Sofia Faruqi Ethiopia is experiencing its most severe political turmoil in decades. After months of escalating protests and conflicts that have killed hundreds of people, on October 9 the Ethiopian government announced a state of emergency. Ethiopia’s conflict is being driven partly by ethnic tensions […]
MOHAMMED RASOOLDEEN | Published — Wednesday 16 November 2016 Muhammad Yunus RIYADH: Nobel Peace Prize winner Professor Muhammad Yunus advised youths not to run after jobs after graduation but to prepare themselves for a career in social businesses. Yunus is known throughout the world as a pioneer of the microcredit […]
Oct 20,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – JONATHAN POWER Africa up or down? After 10 years of quite remarkable growth across the continent, most countries are experiencing a downturn, with average growth nearer to 3.75 per cent than 5 per cent as before. Nigeria, the continent’s most populous country and largest […]
REUTERS | Published — Wednesday 19 October 2016 Saudi Arabia has reassured investors that it could stabilize state finances and reduce its dependence on oil. DUBAI/LONDON: Saudi Arabia attracted massive investor demand of about $67 billion on Wednesday for its first international bond offer, as the Kingdom allayed concern […]
by GRAIN Staff, originally published by GRAIN | JUL 13, 2016 Eight years after releasing its first report on land grabbing, which put the issue on the international agenda, GRAIN publishes a new dataset documenting nearly 500 cases of land grabbing around the world. In October 2008, GRAIN published a […]
Published: Oct 5, 2016 DAVID WALDMAN WASHINGTON — Technology will fuel an increase of up to 3% in the gross domestic product of every country over the next decade, the executive chairman of Cisco Systems said at an International Monetary Fund panel Wednesday. “If you look at what is […]
CLOUD STORAGE Keeping data safe in a mountain By Carlo Pisani http://tp.srgssr.ch/p/swi/embed?urn=urn:swi:video:42424898 SEP 23, 2016 – 11:00 If every byte of information on the internet needs a physical location where it’s stored, one of the safest places to keep this data might be inside a Swiss mountain. (Carlo Pisani, swissinfo.ch) […]
Source: BBC The hilltop medieval village of Riace on Italy’s south coast was almost a ghost town 15 years ago. Houses were derelict and the local school was near to closing. The village was in danger of becoming extinct as residents disappeared to northern Italy, and abroad, for jobs during […]
Sep 21,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – Devesh Kapur World Bank President Jim Yong Kim’s nomination for a second term is inexorably moving forward with a lack of transparency that has become all too typical. Many observers are once again gnashing their teeth at the United States’ continued monopoly over the top […]
“Give me control over a nations currency, and I care not who makes its laws” – Baron M.A. Rothschild Afghanistan: Bank of Afghanistan Albania: Bank of Albania Algeria: Bank of Algeria Argentina: Central Bank of Argentina Armenia: Central Bank of Armenia Aruba: Central Bank of Aruba Australia: Reserve […]
Donald Tusk is welcomed by Polish Prime Minister Beata Szydlo CREDIT: AFP Peter Foster, europe editor 13 SEPTEMBER 2016 • 5:36PM An authoritarian European Commission was to blame for Brexit and must give up on its federalist dreams or risk the disintegration of the European Union, eastern European states warned yesterday […]
Published September 11th, 2016 Demand surges for internet or network services that help pilgrims maintain contact with their relatives during their stay abroad. (AFP/Ahmad Gharabli) Saad al-Qurashi The two economic sectors greatly affected by the annual Hajj pilgrimage season, directly proportional to the economic term of Hajj tourism, are sectors […]
By Tech DeskPublished: September 8, 2016 Pakistan is among the least innovative countries in the world, a report released last month has revealed. According to the Global Innovation Index (GII) […]