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How to Manage the China Relationship
Publication — The Wall Street Journal Author — By Jon Huntsman Date — May 7, 2012 Website — http://online.wsj.com The recent drama in Beijing over dissident Chen Guangcheng illuminates two of the most important characteristics of today’s China and its political system. First, despite China’s economic success and growing regional influence, the leadership of the [...]
A Passage to India-Pakistan Peace
Publication — The Wall Street Journal Author — By Michael Boskin Date — April 15, 2012 Website — http://online.wsj.com With their sizable nuclear arsenals and tensions over territory, water and terrorism, India and Pakistan pose staggering risks to South Asia. But they also offer outsize economic potential for their citizens, the region and the world. [...]
Food and the Arab spring: Let them eat baklava
Publication — The Economist Date — March 17, 2012 Website — www.economist.com IT IS sadly appropriate that Mohamad Bouazizi, the Tunisian whose self-immolation triggered the first protest of the Arab spring, should have been a street vendor, selling food. From the start, food has played a bigger role in the upheavals than most people realise. [...]
Obama undecided on adding Japan to talks
The Detroit News March 8, 2012 By David Shepardson Washington— The Obama administration said Wednesday that it hasn’t decided whether to allow Japan to participate in free-trade talks with other Pacific region nations. U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk told the Senate Finance Committee that the administration was still considering whether to allow Japan, China and Mexico to [...]
World’s Extreme Poverty Cut in Half Since 1990
The Wall Street Journal February 29, 2012 By Sudeep Reddy The share of people living in extreme poverty around the world continued to decline in recent years despite financial crises and surging food prices, the World Bank said today. The bank said preliminary estimates for 2010 showed that the world’s extreme poverty rate — people living below [...]
Pakistan to normalise trade with India by year end
Dawn.com (Pakistan) March 1, 2012 ISLAMABAD: Pakistan will normalise trade with arch-rival India by the end of this year, the government said Wednesday, phasing out major restrictions on Indian imports. Information Minister Firdous Ashiq Awan said Islamabad will gradually scrap a “negative list”, which bans hundreds of items from India and places barriers on other [...]
Pakistan, India May Reap Peace From Free Trade Deal
Investor’s Business Daily February 29, 2012 Free Trade: Is an end to the nonstop conflict between India and Pakistan in sight? A big free-trade agreement between the two Asian giants by the end of the year might just be the peace tonic both countries need. It was Frederic de Bastiat, the great French libertarian philosopher, who [...]
Details remain before free trade accords with Panama, Colombia can go into effect
The Miami Herald February 13, 2012 By Mimi Whitefield A U.S. official said Monday that implementation of long-awaited free trade agreements with Colombia and Panama is expected in a matter of months. When the U.S. Congress passed the two trade accords, as well as one with South Korea, in October, it also approved implementing measures, [...]
Africa: Trade Barriers Costing Continent Billions of Dollars, Says WB
allAfrica.com February 8, 2012 By Immaculate Karambu African countries are losing billions of dollars in trade opportunities within the continent due to trade barriers, a new study by the World Bank says. It warns that most African countries, especially those relying on traditional trade partners in Europe, could experience a further drop in earnings from [...]
Tanzania: Farmers Look to Science – and Tradition – to Resist Drought
allAfrica.com / AlertNet January 19, 2012 Mbeya — Recent years have not been kind to Veremund Mfuse and his maize crops. As Tanzania struggles with increasingly extreme weather, the farmer, from Mbarali in Tanzania’s Mbeya region, has seen his maize production decline, a problem he says is affecting farmers across the region. “Our major challenge [...]
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