Nicholas Negroponte explains how he is able to produce a laptop for just $100 and how it will help educate the poorest and most remote child Eliminating poverty, stopping wars and saving the environment are such daunting tasks that it is arrogant or mad to think there is a single answer to any of these…
Cities play a crucial role in combating global warming, says Greg Nickels As the world works to implement the Kyoto Protocol, attention will continue to focus on what the US is doing – or not doing – to meet the challenge of global warming. While some have despaired, I remain hopeful, because the spirit of…
Technological advances and liberalized economies have opened up new models of global business, says Nandan Nilekani. Successfully exploiting them will require analysis, preparation and continued monitoring Over recent years, globalization has speeded up and is now widely recognized as a phenomenon in the world. Advances in technology, lower costs of communications and deregulated economies have…
Many predict that home networking will spark a revival for consumer electronics firms. Instead, says Eli Noam, it may make them obsolete The consumer electronics industry has been flat for several years. Hopes are now being pinned on the emergence of home networks. The theory goes that if consumers were able to “internetwork”, that is,…
Mexico must focus on public investment, education and public health for the neediest, says Andrés Manuel López Obrador a presidential candidate The economic and social policies that I have outlined for Mexico represent a clear break from the past 22 years. The government operates on the assumption that if it maintains macroeconomic stability, economic growth…
Sharper management is urgently needed to boost productivity in the UK, says Kevin Parry Writing previously in this magazine, Sir Howard Davies, director of the London School of Economics (LSE), outlined a hypothesis to explain Britain’s poor productivity record compared with that of other developed nations. British managers, he argued, are the culprits: they are…
China’s economic growth has benefited its neighbours and the rest of the world, says Supachai Panitchpakdi Fear and admiration – this is how much of the world has reacted to China’s phenomenal economic growth of the past 15 years. Such has been the response to all economic behemoths throughout history. In China’s case, the admiration…
Food is now often treated as fuel for the body, rather than one of life’s great pleasures and an essential part of our identity, says Carlo Petrini If Ludwig Feuerbach was right and we are what we eat, then we only have to take one look at how billions of people feed themselves to realize…
One of Benedict XVI’s first acts as pope was to extend the hand of friendship to other Christian churches and to Islam in this address Dear Delegates of the Orthodox Churches, of the Oriental Orthodox Churches and of the Ecclesial Communities of the West, I greet you with joy a few days after my election….
Vladimir Putin lays out the challenges facing Russia and the reforms he proposes for them I will dwell on a number of fundamental ideological and political issues. I believe this discussion is essential at the present stage of Russia’s development. I consider the development of Russia as a free and democratic state to be our…
