The energy sector is an important one for all the various countries of the world, and especially, the countries that are developing from an economic point of view. It has been observed that the energy sector has played a crucial role in the context of the global economy. Prices of oil and such other sources of energy have been affecting the economies of various developing nations and have been playing crucial roles in shaping them.
Former executives at Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s offered damaging critiques to the Senate Permanent Sub-Commttee on Investigations of the practices at the two credit rating agencies during the run-up to the financial crisis.
Well, things must definitely be a little boring in Rosario, Argentina, where our friend / colleague / and clearly devoted reader Sr. Dr. Claudio Pairoba lives,
Well, things must definitely be a little boring in Rosario, Argentina, where our friend / colleague / and clearly devoted reader Sr. Dr. Claudio Pairoba lives,
ONE LAPTOP PER CHILD is a nonprofit group that thinks big.
Since 2007, it has sold inexpensive but rugged laptop computers to the governments of less-developed countries.
ONE LAPTOP PER CHILD is a nonprofit group that thinks big.
Rare earth elements are minerals crucial to military hardware and the latest wind turbines and hybrid gasoline-electric cars,
meaning they are now, and will become increasingly, crucial for the smooth and, hopefully, rapid development of advanced clean / green technologies.
The mobile internet is ramping up faster than the desktop (PC-based) internet did, leading to projections that mobile internet usage could overtake desktop access by 2013 – 2014.
The mobile internet is ramping up faster than the desktop (PC-based) internet did, leading to projections that mobile internet usage could overtake desktop access by 2013 – 2014.
More often than not, companies that are likely to fall short tend to pre-announce their results, in part to lower the market’s expectations.
Historically, two companies pre-announce bad news for every company that hints at better-than-expected results to come.
Drawn by the prospect of hefty profits from even the smallest of loans, a raft of banks and financial institutions now dominate the micro-finance field, with some charging interest rates of 100 percent or more.
“We created microcredit to fight the loan sharks; we didn’t create microcredit to encourage new loan sharks,” Muhammad Yunus,
Despite the federal government’s repeated pledges to crack down on big businesses that underpay their taxes,
the Internal Revenue Service has decreased in recent years the time it spends auditing the returns of the nation’s largest corporations, according to a new study.
Rio Tinto, the British-Australian mining giant, said it had joined two other global mining companies and decided to sell iron ore based on quarterly prices, a move that effectively ends a decades-old benchmark annual pricing system.
