16 April 2010 By David Caploe PhD, Chief Political Economist, EconomyWatch.com
Several regular readers have asked why we haven’t covered the “solution” to the Greek debt crisis –
16 April 2010 By David Caploe PhD, Chief Political Economist, EconomyWatch.com
This month, U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner became the latest of President Barack Obama’s cabinet members to make a quick trip to India.
The trip could have served as an effective precursor to Obama’s planned visit to India’s capital this summer.
This month, U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner became the latest of President Barack Obama’s cabinet members to make a quick trip to India.
Denmark now regards garbage as a clean alternative fuel rather than a smelly, unsightly problem, using incinerators, known as waste-to-energy plants to make the transition.
Denmark now has 29 such plants, serving 98 municipalities in a country of 5.5 million people, and 10 more are planned or under construction.
Suicide has become something of a phenomenon in India, especially in the south, which now has one of the highest suicide rates in the world — a fact that has both puzzled and alarmed public health experts.
Suicides by indebted farmers are frequently reported in the news media and pointed to as a sign that India has forgotten its rural poor.
With unemployment still at a severe high, a majority of states have drained their jobless benefit funds, forcing them to borrow billions from the federal government to help out-of-work Americans.
With unemployment still at a severe high, a majority of states have drained their jobless benefit funds, forcing them to borrow billions from the federal government to help out-of-work Americans.
By David Caploe PhD, Chief Political Economist, EconomyWatch.com
By David Caploe PhD, Chief Political Economist, EconomyWatch.com
Two years after Wal-Mart came to India, it is trying to do to agriculture here what it has done to industries around the world:
change business models by using its hyper-efficient practices to improve productivity and speed the flow of goods.
The dual-pipeline project, the first phase of which is to be completed in 2011, will allow Russia to pump its natural gas directly under the Baltic Sea to Germany … and is the result of an immense support effort from German industry and politicians.
Malaysia is working to become the first country in Asia to sign a voluntary agreement with the European Union guaranteeing that all timber exports to the area have been harvested legally.
Malaysia is working to become the first country in Asia to sign a voluntary agreement with the European Union guaranteeing that all timber exports to the area have been harvested legally.
