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– World Economic Forum Founder and Executive Chairman Klaus Schwab and his co-author Thierry Malleret today release their new book “The Great

In 1946, Giulio Andreotti started his political career as a 27-year-old junior minister. Over a career spanning seven decades, he went on to become...

SA has too many ideological necrophiliacs and too few jobs

NLC Needs To Transform To Be Relevant To Workers And The Nigerian Masses By Chom Bagu It is clear that the Nigeria public service must change whether we like it or not, it is the law of nature. This change is not going to be easy, so trade unions must muster the ability and capacity to constructively engage so that hardships of transiting to the new century economic and governance are not borne by workers alone. The NLC must constructively engage the Kaduna State Government on the current issue...

NLC and the transformation necessary for staying relevant, By Chom Bagu Nigeria needs a Developmental Labour Movement that will advocate for a progressive development agenda. Nigeria needs a Developmental Labour Movement that will advocate for a progressive development agenda. With a developmental state and a developmental Labour movement, Nigeria can smoothly cross into the 21 st Century, while engaging in negotiations that are based on well researched positions and using modern tools. It has...

As Goes Colombia, So Goes Latin America? May 11 2021, 3:55 AM May 10 2021, 2:30 PM May 11 2021, 3:55 AM (Bloomberg Opinion) -- When Colombians voted in a 42-year-old development wonk as president in 2018, they knew it was a leap of faith. But what Ivan Duque lacked in political adroitness (he’d served a single term as a senator), the argument went, he would finesse as an internationally accredited emerging market technocrat. (Bloomberg Opinion) -- When Colombians voted in a 42-year-old dev...

SPRINGFIELD — Their new book is called the “History of the Springfield Cemetery,” but editors Wayne E. Phaneuf and Joseph Carvalho III say it is about much more than that. “It’s more than just about the cemetery, because it’s really about the history of the city,” says Phaneuf. “It’s the history of the country.” Phaneuf, retired executive editor of The Republican, and Carvalho, retired ...

2020 has been a watershed year for most global economies. However much we yearn for the return of normality, it is unlikely that any economy will be able to res

2020 was obviously an epoch-making year for economies everywhere and these historic shifts are fully reflected in the web pages of BRINK.  In all, we published 130 articles on the status of the economy in 2020 — some on global tectonic shifts, but many pieces looking at what was going on in individual countries, as varied as Chile, Vietnam, India, Saudi Africa, Japan and Germany. Optimism at the Beginning The year began with a sense of confidence about the general direction of things. On Jan...

Also despite these crackdowns, theres still strong support for meduro. why do you think that is? >> well, chavez before him has taken all of the oil, a big chunk of the oil proceeds, and created a direct cash and destroyed private sector jobs. so it is almost impossible to find the job in the private sector these days in venezuela. so you need to depend either on government handouts or in government jobs. and you would not go get those jobs over the handouts unless you are enthusiastic and prove...