In general, as several of you have noticed, we try to highlight in this In the News column, LESS noticed, but nevertheless crucial, items from the mainstream media / institutions about the global political economy … [br]
Nevertheless, we have gotten SO many emails / chats etc about this amazingly informative graphic in the New York Times that we feel like we HAVE to put it up,
India’s cities are expanding on a larger scale and at a faster pace than ever before.
To date, though, the country has avoided dealing with the hard questions about how best to manage its massive urbanization.
Seeking to bring its spiraling debt under control, Japan has undertaken an unlikely exercise:
lawmakers are forcing bureaucrats to defend their budgets at public hearings and are slashing wanton spending.
Seeking to bring its spiraling debt under control, Japan has undertaken an unlikely exercise:
China has an increasingly pyramidal health care system, with many small hospitals at the bottom, fewer midsize hospitals in the middle and a small number of very large hospitals at the top.
There are two main factors at work in creating this unwieldy system: patient preference, and the unwillilngness of young doctors to work at smaller hospitals.
After nine years of regulatory review, the federal government gave the green light recently to the nation’s first offshore wind farm, a highly contested project off the coast of Cape Cod.
The approval of the 130-turbine farm gives a significant boost to the nascent offshore wind industry in the United States,
Well, things are continuing to move along nicely in Rosario, Argentina, where our friend / colleague / and clearly devoted reader Sr. Dr. Claudio Pairoba lives,
Well, things are continuing to move along nicely in Rosario, Argentina, where our friend / colleague / and clearly devoted reader Sr. Dr. Claudio Pairoba lives,
While it deserves a full Featured Analysis, which it will receive at some point in the not-so-distant future,
one of the points that has tended to become lost in this whole discussion of the Greek bailout [br]
While it deserves a full Featured Analysis, which it will receive at some point in the not-so-distant future,
Despite its small physical size, Qatar puts up some big numbers.
It has the second highest per capita gross domestic product in the world, and the third largest proven reserves of natural gas.
But it also ranks high in some less enviable categories,
Several start-up companies in the United States are developing technology to produce electricity from strong tidal currents.
Ocean Renewable Power’s system uses a cross-flow turbine that spins as the water flows through it, turning a generator. [br]
Just a few months ago, China was widely derided here as the financial backbone propping up an autocratic president, Mamadou Tandja,
giving him the confidence to ignore international condemnation as he chopped away at Niger’s democratic institutions.
