Africa is no longer the “lost continent” of popular imagination. The region has been growing rapidly for over a decade, the private sector is expanding, and a new class of consumers is wielding considerable spending power. And because of its young and growing population, the sky is the limit for future growth: Between 2010 and […]
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Debate – The staying power of Arab Monarchies Read Here – International Herald Tribune
At one time in the recent past, leaders in developing countries and in international organizations decried the “brain drain” that led the best and brightest in what we used to call the “third world” to emigrate to the West to take advantage of superior educational and employment opportunities. The United States was the destination of […]
Did President Obama watch Egypt swing from pivotal ally to potential opponent? Versions of that question have hovered around the presidential campaign from the early Republican primary debates through Mitt Romney’s comments on his recent trip to Israel about the Islamist electoral victories in the wake of the Arab spring. Read Here – New York Times
Trade between the countries was $75.4 billion in 2011-12, against $59 billion in 2010-11. In 2011-12, exports to China stood at $17.9 billion while imports from there stood at $57.5 billion, resulting in a trade deficit of $39.6 billion. Read Here – Mint
The case of Nokia, a Finnish mobile-phone manufacturer, is well documented: it contributed a quarter to Finnish GDP growth between 1998 and 2007. But do any other countries rely so heavily on a single company? Read Here – The Economist
Over the past few years, largely out of sight, governments have been clawing back freedoms on the internet, turning an invention that was designed to emancipate the individual into a tool for surveillance and control. In the next few months, this process is set to be enshrined internationally, amid plans to put cyberspace under the authority […]
THE wave of anti-Japanese protests that has erupted across China, after tit-for-tat landings by ultra-nationalists on uninhabited islands which the Japanese call the Senkakus and the Chinese the, is alarming. Read Here – The Economist
