Home > You are at: News/Analysis, Page 11 ('04) | Previous | Next Editorial: Trade and employment -- The new jobs migration: Foreign competition now affects services as well as manufacturing. Good, The Economist, 19 Feb 04 (Link to: US jobs--The great hollowing-out myth) Editorial: No help for Haiti -- The Bush administration would rather leave the matter to Caricom or the United Nations or France. It's an inexcusable abdication, Washington Post (free-registr. req'd), 19 Feb 04 Horizons: Japan's economy--Robust growth: Its Q4 growth was at its fastest in 13 years, boosted by corporate investment & by continued ex-port growth, Economist Intelligence Unit, 18 Feb 04 (Earlier EIU analy-sis: Investment boosts GDP) Gregory Mankiw: Remarks to the Society of Govt Economists -- After making news last week w/ some injudiciously worded comments about intl. trade, I learned an important lesson from that experience, 17 Feb 04 Giant pension fund Calpers not always a leading indicator of emerging markets, by Y Hayashi & assoc, Dow Jones Newswires via Yahoo! Finance, 17 Feb 04 Editorial: Political timing, outsourced--There's something about Bush's economic team that seems to compel its members to say true things at inconvenient moments, New York Times (free-registr req'd), 17 Feb 04 How Beijing may loosen up: China's leaders are still hedging, but a wi-der trading band for the yuan is likely, by B Bremner & assoc, Business Week, 16-23 Feb 04 Horizons: Martin Feldstein--Here are the facts: The deficit is no reason to raise taxes now, Wall Street Journal, 16 Feb 04 Boardroom: The families that own Asia--The richest biz clans are being forced to change: Mori-Jap., Li-HK, Sy-Phil., Ambani-India, Cheara-vanont-Thai., & Tsai-Taiwan, by A Spaeth & assoc, Time, 16 Feb 04 A briefing on: A Mexican standoff in Buenos Aires, by Lee Walczak, BusinessWeek, 16-23 Feb 04 Horizons: Michael Mandel--Inventing the 'Clinton recession': The CEA is trying to alter the start date in a way that benefits Bush. 'Tain't fair, BusinessWeek, 16-23 Feb 04 Laura D'Andrea Tyson: Outsourcing--Who's safe anymore: The federal budget deficit will limit help to displaced workers, BusinessWeek, 16- 23 Feb 04 (Related link below: Jan 29th) Jagdish Bhagwati: Why your job isn't moving to Bangalore--When jobs disappear in US, it's usually because technical change has destroyed them, New York Times (free-registr. req'd), 15 Feb 04 Editorial: Mr. Mankiw is right -- Although Bush's econ. team deserves its bad reputation, one was brave enough to speak the truth about shift of service jobs abroad, Washington Post (free-registr. req'd), 13 Feb 04 India's economy--Privatization push or fiscal fig leaf?: EIU considers its budget deficit to be most serious macro risk, which one-off privatization receipts will do little to address, Economist Intelligence Unit, 13 Feb 04 EU's poorest newcomers look to Ireland at end of rainbow: Even though Latvia, Lithuania & Estonia are located far from Ireland, they suddenly feel they have a lot in common w/ it, by R Smith, IHTribune, 12 Feb 04 Horizons: Hal Varian -- Info tech may have cured low service-sector productivity: What was diagnosed as 'Baumol's disease' in service indus-tries now appears to be in remission due to IT, NYT, 12 Feb 04 (Relat-ed archive link: Jun 18th) Marcus Noland: Pyongyang's tightrope-walker -- As Washington sways the rope, Seoul and Beijing look apprehensively skyward at Kim dan-cing through the air, Far Eastern Economic Review, 12-19 Feb 04 Robert Wade: Here's a good way solve the dollar problem--It's time to reopen discussion about shifting the intl. reserve currency further away from a dollar base, International Herald Tribune, 12 Feb 04 Horizons: Measuring unemployment--The reserve army: What portion of working-age population does not work, and how many of those that do not work want to do so?, The Economist, 12 Feb 04 Greenspan defends free trade amid outsourcing flap, by Greg Ip, Dow Jones Newswires via Yahoo! News, 12 Feb 04 Robert Shiller: Saving a world that doesn't save--Why aren�t people sav-ing more for their future retirement? Why are they actually doing the op-posite by saving less?, Proj Syndicate via Econ. Times(India), 11 Feb 04 Bush, adviser assailed for stance on 'offshoring' jobs, by Jonathan Weisman, Washington Post (free-registr. req'd), 11 Feb 04 Editorial: Crisis in Haiti--It stands on the verge of revolution or anarchy. Yet neither US nor its other neighbors appear prepared to come to its rescue, Washington Post (free-registr. req'd), 11 Feb 04 Bush report offers positive outlook on jobs, by J Weisman, Washington Post (free-registr. req'd), 10 Feb 04 (Link to: Economic Report of the Pres. -- Table of contents | Page to download full text in pdf); and Gregory Mankiw: Opening remarks at his testimony on The Economic Report of President before the Joint Economic Committee, 10 Feb 04 Barnett Rubin: As Kabul runs out of cash, the illicit economy thrives -- the drug trade, trafficking in emeralds & timber, smuggling of artifacts, land grabs by warlords, and trafficking of women, Wall St. J, 10 Feb 04 World economy -- Oil prices rise on OPEC's surprise cut: Although oil prices rose sharply on OPEC's double-edged move, downward pressure on prices will build this year, Economist Intelligence Unit, 10 Feb 04 Editorial: This is free trade? -- The trade deal announced over the weekend sends a wrong signal to protectionist lobby groups, Washing-ton Post (free-registr. req'd), 10 Feb 04 China is said to consider revaluing its currency: The report in an influ-ential weekly has fueled speculation among analysts, by Chris Buckley, New York Times (free-registr. req'd), 10 Feb 04 Coffee/tea break: On language -- 'Imminent' is rooted in the part of a mountain that projects overhead, threatening those below, by William Safire, NYT with International Herald Tribune, 9 Feb 04 Gary Becker: What India can do to catch up with China -- There's growing confidence in the country that with the right economic and human capital policies, it can grow faster, BusinessWeek, 9-16 Feb 04 Kenneth Rogoff: This time it's not different -- Some say this time is different for emerging-market debt. Is it?, Newsweek, 9-16 Feb 04 Diana Farrell: Exporting jobs -- Offshoring is the way to go, Interna-tional Herald Tribune, 6 Feb 04 (Link to: McKinsey & Co.--Summary of Perspective on offshoring) Seminar Room: Do developing countries have a say at the IMF? -- An IMF forum: Panelists from G-24 Secretariat (Buira) and Friends of the Earth (Welch) ; chaired by IMF Ext. Rel. Dir. (Dawson), 5 Feb 04 Editorial: Why the dollar will fall further -- Some think the dollar has fallen too far. On the contrary, it has not fallen by enough, The Economist, 5 Feb 04 Brendan Miniter: Trade barriers won't help South Carolina's economy -- or America's, Wall Street Journal, 3 Feb 04 Global trade issues hit the campaign trail: The leftward shift on trade is only part of a rising message of economic populism, by J Weisman, Washington Post, 2 Feb 04 State Room: WMD--Why most disappeared: The tacit admission that Saddam probably did not possess WMD weakens US foreign policy's reliance on preemption doctrine, Economist Intelligence Unit, 2 Feb 04 Scared of China? Not Europe: US bugaboos--a big trade gap and loss of jobs--don't worry the Continent yet, by C Matlack & assoc, Business Week, 2-9 Feb 04 Jeffrey Garten: The dollar adrift -- Europe's increasingly desperate call for currency 'stability' will define the debate at the G-7 meeting this week in Boca Raton, Newsweek, 2-9 Feb 04, Newsroom: Rescuing Reuters -- CEO Tom Glocer has stopped the company's free fall. Can he bring back the glory days?, by S Reed & assoc, BusinessWeek, 2-9 Feb 04 (Related archive link: Feb 20th) US economy -- Rates will hold in '04 despite Fed shift: The Fed is sig-naling interest rates may rise sooner than expected. But EIU does not expect to see any hike until '05, Economist Intelligence Unit, 2 Feb 04 Why is oil so expensive again?: More demand and fears of Mideast extremism are two reasons, but prices could ease soon, by P Coy & assoc, BusinessWeek, 2-9 Feb 04 This disease may zap a whole industry: Spreading avian flu could devastate Thailand's enormous poultry exports, by F Balfour, Business Week, 2-9 Feb 04 (incl link to: What you need to know about bird flu) Jagdish Bhagwati: Don't cry for Cancun -- Cancun was not Seattle, which will go down in trade history as a failure, Foreign Affairs via New York Times (free--registr. req'd), Jan/Feb 04 Time's Board of Economists at Davos: How long can this grow on? -- The global economy is finally starting to hum. But will deficits and wild exchange rates kill this recovery?, by Peter Gumble, Time, 1 Feb 04 Kenneth Rogoff: A development nightmare -- Is it possible that, deep down, the world's wealthy fear what will happen if the developing countries really did catch up?, Foreign Policy, Jan/Feb 04 [pdf] Anxious about outsourcing: States try to stop US firms from sending high-tech work overseas, by G Schneider, Washington Post, 31 Jan 04 Brazil's economy: Govt balks at central bank autonomy--Govt may be softening its reform agenda-at least until local elections are over, Econ-omist Intelligence Unit, 30 Jan 04 (EIU's earlier analysis -- Lula names new team) Argentina may open new bidding to hire debt advisers: After some banks pre-selected by govt withdrew their proposals, Bloomberg News, 30 Jan 04 Nicholas Lardy: Race to the brink--The challenge, esp. for the People's Bank of China, is to rein in credit growth without jeopardizing rapid economic growth, Business Review Weekly (Australia), 29 Jan 04 Argentina and the IMF -- An amber light: A skirmish over priorities, The Economist, 29 Jan 04 (Link to: IMF press statement) [Related archive link: Jan 12th] Virginia Postrel: The trend of vanishing tech jobs -- Outsourcing's benefits are left out of the debate, New York Times (free-registr req'd) | Intl. Herald Tribune, 29 Jan 04 (Related archive link: Nov 25th) South Africa's economy -- Facing Zimbabwe fall-out: The problems in its neighbor, and govt's response to them, remain a potential source of disruption, Economist Intelligence Unit, 28 Jan 04 (incl risk scores in 10 categories) Editorial: Supporting Turkey--The nation is changing in surprising and encouraging ways, setting a constructive example for the entire Muslim Middle East, NYTimes (free--registr. req'd)| IHTribune, 28 Jan 04 State Room: David Kay's opening remarks at the Senate committee hearing about efforts to find WMD in Iraq, CNN, 28 Jan 04 State Room: Report of the Hutton inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death of weapons expert Dr David Kelly -- Summary of conclusions, UK Judicial Inquiry, 28 Jan 04 (incl link to full report) Robert Shiller: Living dangerously -- Most people do not feel the same impulse to go out & buy insurance as they do to buy new clothes. They should, Project Syndicate via Economic Times (India), 26 Jan 04 Editorial: Cancun remorse? -- Key countries are changing their tone about the global trade round, Washington Times, 26 Jan 04 (Link to: USTR--Summary of Zoellick's letter [pdf]) Another Asian health scare: Bird flu uncaged -- The outbreaks in eight countries to date have raised concerns about the emergence of a cross-border crisis similar to SARS, Economist Intelligence Unit, 26 Jan 04 Mouse & Wo/man: E-mail on wheels -- Rural Cambodia is navigating its way online via a digital pony express, NYT with International Herald Tribune, 26 Jan 04 Africa -- The next wide-open wireless frontier: In the sub-Sahara, mobile operators big and small are rushing to sign up clients, by Andy Reinhardt, Business Week, 26 Jan-2 Feb 04 Democracy and Islam can coexist: This week Pres. Bush will welcome Turkey's prime minister -- Q&A with PM Recep Erdogan, by Lally Weymouth, Newsweek and Washington Post, 26 Jan 04 The rush to cash in on India: Sizzling growth and an undervalued market have buyers lining up for initial public offerings (or IPOs), by M Kripalani, BusinessWeek, 26 Jan-2 Feb 04 Spending delays Turkey loan review--IMF's Krueger, Reuters via Forbes, 24 Jan 04 (Link to: IMF press statement) [Related archive link: Jan 9th] State Room: Arms hunt in Iraq to get new focus -- Next chief named for effort, by W Pincus & assoc, Washington Post, 24 Jan 04 (incl link to: Reuters Q&A with David Kay) [Related archive link: Oct 2nd] Editorial: Iraq's shrinking debt -- Maybe the world isn't so 'alienated' after all, Wall Street Journal, 23 Jan 04 Living dangerously: For businesses, govts and citizens, misjudging risks can be costly -- Introduction to a survey of risk, The Economist, 22 Jan 04 Marcus Noland: How Bush risks losing Korea--Restarting negotiations on N Korean nuclear program is essential to achieve a diplomatic settle-ment-or as political precursor for stiffer action, Fin. Times, 22 Jan 04 Editorial: Financing universities--Pay or decay: European and develop-ing countries, now busy expanding higher education, need to think hard about how much govt involvement is good, The Economist, 22 Jan 04 (Link to: A briefing on UK univ.; and A bargain at Oxford) Antiglobalization forces shift to pragmatic tactics: Switching focus from 'anti' to alter-globalization (or alternative forms), they are gathering at three alternative events to WEF, by F Fleck, IHTribune, 21 Jan 04 Russia's economy -- Oil vulnerability: Its economy remains heavily de-pendent on energy sector, & investors need to monitor intl. oil markets closely, Economist Intelligence Unit, 20 Jan 04 (incl risk scores in 10 categories) USA: Can Bush be beaten?--His win is not guaranteed, but odds are in his favor. Iraq is his greatest potential vulnerability & his serious econ-omic weakness is the budget deficit, Econ. Intell. Unit, 20 Jan 04 (Link to: EIU's earlier analysis--Pre-election landscape shifts) Portfolio: Fourth-quarter results--US-based funds: Why you belong in bonds; and The cream of the crop (in equities), BusinessWeek, 19-26/ 26-2 Jan-Feb 04 Where to find prosperity: The global recovery is oddly joyless in big markets, newly confident in emerging ones, by R Foroohar & assoc, Newsweek, 19-26 Jan 04 << Previous Home Next >> Copyright (c) 2001-2008 Leonardo L. Sta. Romana All rights reserved. |
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