by editor | Oct 11, 2019 | Top Page Links
By Zsolt Darvas, courtesy Bruegel Institute Southern European euro-area members suffered from unsustainable developments after they joined the euro in 1999 and up to 2008, and have had great difficulties since. Inadequate national policies were...
by editor | Oct 10, 2019 | Top Page Links
Courtesy of Libertad y Progreso The reality of Argentine entrepreneurs is arduous. With growing inflation, the highest taxes in the world, Kafkaesque regulations, and overflowing labor costs, it is not surprising that in Argentina only 15% of...
by editor | Oct 10, 2019 | Top Page Links
Over one billion people are at risk of losing their sight, the vast majority in low- and middle-income countries, according to a new report from the WHO, which urges that many of these people could be saved from vision loss with basic eye care....
by editor | Oct 9, 2019 | Top Page Links
By Calum Nicholson, UK Correspondent “You must understand that a world is dying, that old values, the old prejudices, and the old bases of power and prestige are going.” These were the words of Edward R. Murrow to his CBS radio audience in the Autumn of 1940, in...
by editor | Oct 9, 2019 | Top Page Links
Execs for American Big Tech companies including Google, Facebook, Apple and Amazon have probably been enjoying a few sleepless nights since the reappointment of Margrethe Vestager, the bare knuckles European competition supremo, to her post as...
by editor | Oct 8, 2019 | Top Page Links
Hopefully the name will make more sense. China’s much-discussed Belt and Road Initiative, seeking to create and strengthen land and maritime infrastructure across Eurasia, has attracted a lot of criticism for saddling low-income...