Are we looking at a new global economic system?
The geopolitical reordering of the world cannot simply be achieved through war Published: June 08, 2022 Ramzy Baroud, Special to Gulf News Starting on May 31, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei […]
Getting de-globalisation right
Jun 01,2022 – JORDAN TIMES / Joseph E. Stiglitz DAVOS — The World Economic Forum’s first meeting in more than two years was markedly different from the many previous Davos conferences that I have attended since 1995. It was not just that the bright snow and clear skies of January […]
Indonesia’s palm oil angers Swiss anti-globalisation activists
Palm oil plantation https://www.swissinfo.ch/resource/image/46315522/landscape_ratio3x2/880/587/57409a201e48a29f528482f02c7c6eb0/2C0AA130DCD2C9F8E5E64E7DBF6B3DF2/292993165_highres.jpg Indonesia is the world’s leading palm oil producer and the south-east Asian country is considered also a lucrative market for imports and investors from Europe. Rony […]
Tug of war
Oct 31,2019 – JORDAN TIMES – Ahmad Y. Majdoubeh Over the past couple of decades in particular, our world has undergone dramatic changes. Globalisation, the information and technology revolution, postmodernism, […]
What’s World Economic Forum and why does Davos matter?
by David Child Al Jazeera Klaus Schwab created the European Management Forum, which later became the WEF, in 1971 [Markus Schreiber/AP] The four-day 2018 World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting begins […]
The Asian poor are left behind
Mar 30,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – Jonathan Power The Asian economies are picking up speed again. After the big hit from Wall Street when the bank Lehman Brothers collapsed in a heap in 2008, sending shock waves everywhere, a recovery is now in the works. How many child deaths in the […]