Read Full Article>> http://newsdoors.blogspot.com/2013/01/a-modest-proposal-tax-joe-stiglitz-at.html A Modest Proposal: Tax Joe Stiglitz at 100 Percent Joseph Stiglitz, yet another Nobel Prize winner in economics who has forsaken economic analysis, writes in the...
http://edition.cnn.com/2012/07/24/world/marieme-jamme-africa-technology/index.html?iref=obinsite (CNN) -- Senegalese-born Marieme Jamme is at the forefront of the technology revolution that is slowly transforming Africa. As chief executive of Spot One...
There are any number of people who conflate environmentalism with Marxism. It is time that this myth, like many others, be put to rest.That someone is in agreement with one of Marx's stances - and Marx was an extremely voluminous writer who addressed many subjects in his work...
(This article originally appeared on InfoChangeIndia.org) It was noon and the sun could no longer hide behind the clouds. One by one, women trickled in to sit on the black tarpaulin laid under a cluster of bamboo trees. Behind them sat the men, in the shade. K P...
The cramped offices of Toper, Macedonia’s leading publisher of reference works, are a shrine to the book. Thickset tomes – mainly translations from the English – are strewn everywhere. The proud owners show us their latest crop: two beautifully bound, quality paper...
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Hello all my fellow reader! I'm sorry for not being able to write for soooooo long…its juts that I did TOO much in the past few days. The American University in Cairo hosted the first ever Startup Weekend Cairo, which kicked off this last Thursday, meticulously organized by...
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By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited" From the comfort of their plush offices and five to six figure salaries, self-appointed NGO's often denounce child labor as their employees rush from one five star hotel to another, $3000 subnotebooks and...
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Ten years ago the country retained traces of the devastation of war. Today Cambodia seems another place. The Khmer Rouge regime, the Vietnamese invasion, the civil wars, all seem chapters of a book of history. The...
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When every nation starts growing and developing, the first thing that comes to the mind of the nation’s leaders is developing nuclear weapon which is a risk to the world. Why is that? Is it as means of risk...
Bhan Sahu is one of the thousands of poor tribals made landless by govt development program in India’s Chhattisgarh state. In Chhattisgarh Maoists rebels are engaged in a violent guerrilla war against the govt...
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The per capita income of USA is about USD 42,000 per annum while that of China is about USD 3000 to 4000. Yet China has taken the second place in the world in economic growth (or wealth). But is GDP best for measuring economic growth or development? Does it measure social,...
The Europeans went to Africa only with their machine gun and their positive contribution to the nations they colonized is, almost, nothing or very little. Currently, the Chinese are going to Africa with their money...
Kofi Annan, the previous secretary general of the UN, argues that past glory steeped Africans from yearning for future developments (Ethiopian Herald, 13 June 2010). Does past glory hinder from building...
Currently, it seems that nations and peoples of the world are much more frustrated on the global economic crises and sustaining life. But I am so optimistic that the crises, dynamism, complexity and volatility of the world will bring much more global socio-economic...
While flying into Mumbai at 3 o'clock in the morning, the first thing I noticed was the absurd amount of activity going on within the city. The number of cars on the road rivaled most US cities during rush...
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