Crisis in the eurozone, high unemployment in the United States, mounting public debts in Japan, and the rise of emerging markets like Brazil, China, and India have generated a great deal of uncertainty about the trajectory of the global economy. What are e ...
Education is a basic building block for every society and educating girls is an affordable and necessary investment with high returns. When girls are educated, livelihoods are improved, economic growth is increased, and civic responsibility is enhanced. In ...
Since its foundation in 1961 the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has fostered debate, encouraged knowledge sharing, and supported countries in advancing their reform agendas across a vast array of policy domains, including gro ...
Wal-Mart, number one on the Fortune 500 list, has revenues that are on par with the GDP of Norway, the twenty-fifth largest economy in the world. Furthermore, Wal-Mart’s employees outnumber the populations of almost a hundred countries. The world’s largest ...
President Juan Manuel Santos Calderón assumed office in 2010 with a mandate to improve Colombia’s pro-business policies and free-trade pursuits of the last decade. When implemented, the U.S.-Colombia free trade agreement signed by President Obama in 2011 s ...
The Arctic holds the potential to be the next great frontier for private investment. New technologies and a political environment more willing to look domestically to meet America’s energy needs have enabled the discovery and development of previously inac ...
The market for medical technology is driven by both political and demographic trends. As global markets continue to open and expand and as developing countries continue to see rapid growth of their middle class and aging populations, there is potential for ...
Capitalist democracy is under stress. The European Union is engulfed in a sovereign debt crisis that threatens its very existence, while the United States is facing its own potentially devastating public finance crunch. On both sides of the Atlantic, the i ...
Capitalist democracy is under stress. The European Union is engulfed in a sovereign debt crisis that threatens its very existence, while the United States is facing its own potentially devastating public finance crunch. On both sides of the Atlantic, the ...
Africa’s success lies in investing in the future of its women as mothers, farmers, doctors, and entrepreneurs. African women are the driving force behind the economy, running an estimated forty-eight percent of small and medium-sized businesses and growing ...
