With the right incentives from government the private sector can help lift poor areas out of poverty , says Ronald Cohen The liberalization of western economies over the past two decades has unleashed a wave of entrepreneurial activity and generated a huge amount of wealth. While welcome, this entrepreneurial success has brought with it a…
Noam Chomsky sets out his vision of fair globalization in conversation with Global Agenda’s Maria Ahmed For the record, I am in favour of globalization. That has been true of the left and the labour movement since their modern origins. That’s why every union is called an international; why there were several abortive attempts to…
Universities are becoming key recruitment agencies in the new economy, says Frances Cairncross. But this role could be jeopardized if governments try to use them for social engineering Few successful public companies have been in existence for more than a century. The world’s top universities, on the other hand, have shown an extraordinary ability to…
Technology provides the means for retail banks to achieve greater efficiencies that will help both the industry and the economy, says Ana Patricia Botín Over the past decade the banking sector has benefited from a benign macroeconomic environment. Strong economic growth and historically-low interest rates have resulted in strong and growing demand for credit around…
There is, perhaps, a 50% chance that humankind will be annihilated this century, says Nick Bostrom Something like 99.9% of all species that ever lived are now extinct. When will our own species join the dinosaurs and the dodos? How could that happen? And what can we do to stave off the end? An existential…
We should appeal to altruism rather than self-interest to reach our aid targets, says Jagdish Bhagwati, and be much more imaginative about how we deliver it Why should we give aid? How much should we give? How should we give it? These questions have concerned the development world since the start of rich-country foreign aid…
The Chinese threat to American jobs has been exaggerated, says David Arkless. Companies should focus on what they can do to be better employers Economic growth is impossible without people. It is a fact. People fuel economies through work and spending. At a micro level, you and I make an important contribution to our national…
When the fund managers bale out, that’s the time to pile in, says Brett Arends Remember the cull of the “value managers” near the end of the dotcom bubble? In early 2000, prominent fund managers who refused to jump on the bandwagon finally paid the price. Among them were Tony Dye, the Phillips & Drew…
Post-Soviet Estonia has been run by the young. That is largely why it is now considered the most competitive economy in the European Union, according to Andrus Ansip When we are choosing among candidates for various posts, people often try to dissuade us on the grounds of the candidate’s youth: “He may be best for…
Developments in biotechnology have made possible species-changing and even species-endangering procedures, says George Annas. We urgently need a global governance structure to regulate them. Albert Einstein cogently observed that “imagination is more important than knowledge”. He could have gone further. Moral imagination is more important than scientific imagination. The unmet challenge for science at the…
