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- EU, Latin America leaders stress trade, environment at summit
- LIMA AFP — EU and Latin American leaders vowed to do more to further trade between their regions and tackle global warming and poverty as they wrapped up a summit late Friday in the Peruvian capital Lima. The 50 heads of state and government pledged in a joint statement...
- Research articles 2008-05-16
- Relief for the environment? The importance of an increasingly unimportant industrial sector
- I. INTRODUCTION Among the more controversial views about economic growth and globalization is that both will eventually benefit the environment (Arrow et al. 1995). In part, this view is predicated on the nature of structural changes that are normally associated with trade liberalization and economic development. More specifically, economic...
- Research articles 2008-04-01
- Watch, Listen & Read
- TV Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick? Airs on PBS four Thursdays in a row starting March 27, 10 p.m. ET check local listings; Larry Adelman, series creator and executive producer. In Sickness...
- Research articles 2008-03-03
- American prosperity and the "race to the bottom:" why won't the media ask the right questions?
- The problem of growing income inequality in the United States has become more serious over the past thirty years. A substantial number of books, scholarly papers, reports by think tanks, government data, and recently, special feature stories in national newspapers and magazines have been published on this issue. (1) Yet,...
- Research articles 2008-03-01
- Ending global apartheid: economist Lant Pritchett defends immigration, the least-popular—and most-proven—idea for helping the world's poor
- [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] IMAGINE AN ECONOMIC distortion so massive that its effects dwarf those of all existing tariffs, quotas, and subsidies. This distortion is relatively new and inarguably regressive; created by policy makers in wealthy countries such as the United States, Sweden, and Japan, it keeps people in Indonesia, Bangladesh,...
- Research articles 2008-02-01
- Zuma rebukes SAfrica government but stresses unity
- PRETORIA AFP — Jacob Zuma used his first keynote speech as leader of South Africa's ruling ANC Saturday to rebuke President Thabo Mbeki's failure to narrow the wealth gap, while saying he would not undermine his rival. In an address to mark the party's 96th birthday, Zuma acknowledged Mbeki...
- Research articles 2008-01-12
- UN rights chief calls for end to violence against women
- GENEVA AFP — The top United Nations human rights official urged states worldwide to take more action against rape, domestic abuse and all other forms of violence against women. "Every day, in all corners of the world, countless women and girls are killed, mutilated, beaten, raped, sold into sexual...
- Research articles 2007-11-24
- Japan—ASEAN relations in the context of globalization
- ABSTRACT In this paper we will try to make an analysis of the evolution of the relations, mainly from an economic point of view, between Japan and the ASEAN countries in the context of globalization. ASEAN--the Association of Southeast Asian Nations--was formed in August 1967 in Bangkok. The...
- Research articles 2007-11-01
- David Miliband: A Good Genie Is Afoot
- It was a busy week for David Miliband, Great Britain’s youthful new foreign secretary . On Tuesday, the 42-year-old addressed the Labour Party conference, acknowledging the successes and “scars” from 10 years of Labour government and saying that Britain must strengthen its links with the United States and the international...
- Research articles 2007-10-08
- Britain's Brown faces trade union showdown
- LONDON AFP — Gordon Brown makes his first speech as British prime minister to the annual Trades Union Congress on Monday, facing pressure to reverse reforms which left-wingers say have widened inequalities. The TUC, which brings together most British unions, is to hold its 139th annual congress in the...
- Research articles 2007-09-08
- A share-the-wealth surge.(GREED AT A GLANCE)(Brief article)
- No ONE WORKS HARDER to stay on top of changing public perceptions and attitudes than advertising executives on Madison Avenue. And what those execs are perceiving these days, says a new Adweek survey of nation' al opinion polling, appears to be "broad enthusiasm" for more evenly...
- Research articles 2007-09-01
- Beyond transition; proceedings
- Beyond transition; proceedings. Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics--Regional (2006: St. Petersburg, Russia) Ed. by F. Bourguignon and Boris Pleskovic. The World Bank 2007 373 pages $24.00 Paperback HC59 The Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics brings together researchers from...
- Research articles 2007-08-01
- Alternatives to neo-liberalism in the Third World.(Features)
- The Third World has entered an era of ideological flux. The inadequacies of neo-liberalism have spawned a widespread questioning of this dominant worldview. Intellectuals and political movements search for an alternative path that offers the hope of a more desirable, yet practicable, future. In response, the...
- Research articles 2007-06-01
- National Latino Automotive Council to Meet with Major Foreign Manufacturers
- LOS ANGELES -- Hispanic auto dealers, industry suppliers and national leaders of major Latino business organizations will meet with senior representatives of Toyota, Honda, Nissan, Hyundai, BMW and others on June 11 and 12 in Los Angeles. The first National Latino Automotive Conference is designed to address opportunities for entry...
- Research articles 2007-05-10
- On Samir Amin's contribution to globalization
- ABSTRACT This paper intends to review and analyze Amin's contribution to the globalization process. He analyzes the global capitalist system through its evolution over five centuries and has found that its process of capital accumulation is exploitative and destructive of many Third World countries. The monopoly global capitalist model...
- Research articles 2007-05-01
- Spring Meetings: IMF and World Bank Need to Step Up on Labour Rights and Inequality.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-26 March 2007-ITUC: Spring Meetings: IMF and World Bank Need to Step Up on Labour Rights and InequalityC1994-2007 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:26032007 Brussels - The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund must do far more to support labour rights,...
- Research articles 2007-03-26
- Rule 1: The Guy Always Pays. Rule 2: Change the rules later
- Q:SHOULD the guy pay for the date? I'm struggling with a money issue with a guy I've been dating a few months. We make similar money -- not much, but not minimum wage. We were splitting the bill when we started dating. ...
- Research articles 2007-03-25
- Inequality and extinction.(GREED AT A GLANCE)(Brief article)
- NEW RESEARCH, released late this spring by three scientists at Montreal's McGill University, has "found striking relationships between income inequality and biodiversity loss." "Our study suggests that if we can learn to share economic resources more fairly with fellow members of our own species,"...
- Research articles 2007-03-01
- Being Frank: Capitalism -- plus a lot of government
- BARNEY Frank, the 14-term Massachusetts congressman who chairs the Financial Services Committee, says it might be useful to make it a misdemeanor to use metaphors in the discussion of public policy, such as a rising tide lifts all boats. Against what he considers that too-complacent view of economic growth (the...
- Research articles 2007-01-22
- Frank pursues government intervention
- WASHINGTON -- Barney Frank, the 14-term Massachusetts congressman who chairs the Financial Services Committee, says it might be useful to "make it a misdemeanor to use metaphors in the discussion of public policy," such as "a rising tide lifts all boats." Against what he considers that too-complacent view of economic...
- Research articles 2007-01-21
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