March 2, 2021
CARY, N.C. â March 2, 2021 â INDA, the Association of the Nonwoven Fabrics Industry, announced the membership election of seven industry leaders to serve on its Board of Directors for a three-year term. These accomplished professionals represent a cross-section of INDA membership and bring a high level of expertise and insight to the management of the association:
Richard Altice, president and CEO, NatureWorks
Prior to joining NatureWorks, a producer of PLA bioresins, in 2018, Altice was Senior Vice President and President of Designed Structures and Solutions at PolyOne Corporation and held the Vice President role of Hexionâs global specialty epoxy business focused on coatings and composites. He has an engineering background with a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from Missouri University of Science and Technology.
The multi-pronged attempt by stateAttorneysGeneral, the Department of Justice, and the Federal Trade Commission to find Google and Facebook liable for violating antitrust law may result in breaking up these giant companies. But in order for any of this to cause lasting change, we need to look to the not-so-recent past.
In the world of antitrust, the calls to “break up” Big Tech companies translate to the fairly standard remedy of “structural separation,” where companies are barred from selling services and competing with the buyers of those services (for example, rail companies have been forced to stop selling freight services that compete with their own customers). It has been done before as part of the fight against communication monopolies. However, history shows us that the real work is not just breaking up companies, but following through
March 26, 2021 last updated 15:12 ET Workers produce clothing items on the assembly line at an apparel factory in Accra, Ghana, Nov. 13, 2007 (AP photo by Olivier Asselin).
Innovation, Not Development Aid, Is the Key to Tackling Poverty The Editors Thursday, Feb. 25, 2021
The modern development aid industry is fundamentally flawed, writer and researcher Efosa Ojomo argues, because it is based on “the idea of seeing a need, seeing that a community lacks a resource, and then leaning in with the best of intentions to provide that resource
without the fundamental mechanism that will sustain it.” That mechanism is what Ojomo and his co-authors call a “market-creating innovation” an advance that spurs the creation of new businesses, customers and tax revenues that allow for improved public services.
March 26, 2021 last updated 15:12 ET A woman walks by a market in Lagos, Nigeria, Dec. 31, 2020 (AP photo by Sunday Alamba).
Why Innovation Will Be Key to Africa’s Post-COVID Rebuilding The Editors Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2021
Most African countries have fared relatively well in their responses to the coronavirus pandemic, reporting rates of infection and mortality that are far below those seen across much of Europe and the Americas. Yet Africa is expected to take a huge economic hit from the pandemic and its associated containment measures, with the African Development Bank forecasting that an additional 50 million people could be pushed into extreme poverty across the continent.