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Herald Tribune, 31 Dec 04 Andrew Natsios: Responding to Asia's tragedy -- The US has made a good start, but long-term reconstruction is the key challenge, Washington Post (free registr. req'd), 31 Dec 04 (Link to: World Bank--Hazard risk mgmt, w/ link to ProVention consortium) Gauging disaster -- How scientists and victims watched helplessly: The magnitude of tsunami that killed tens of thousands was slowly gauged across the world, by A Revkin & assoc, NYT (free registr req'd), 31 Dec 04 (incl hour-by-hour graphic) (Link to: BBC's animated guide) Editorial: Is America stingy? -- The $35m that the US plans to spend on disaster relief for Asia's tsunamis is a miserly drop in the bucket, NYTimes (free registr. req'd) | IHTrib, 30 Dec 04 One less worry for tsunami-striken nations: S&P says the impact on their economies won't be severe enough to have a negative impact on their sovereign credit ratings, Standard & Poor's via Business Week, 30 Dec 04 The tidal wave that touches our safe shore: Asian disaster gives insulated America a chance to lend a helping hand, by J Achenbach, Washington Post (free registr. req'd), 30 Dec 04 Editorial: The one face of grief--There is only one face of grief - no matter how many languages & skin colors there are among the survivors - & there should be only a single face of outreach, NYT (free registr. req'd) | IHTrib, 30 Dec 04 The peso crisis, ten years on -- Tequila slammer: Mexico has still not fully recovered from its worst financial crisis, The Economist, 29 Dec 04 Joseph Stiglitz: Paying for the past in 2005 -- The beginning of each year is high season for economic forecasters, Project Syndicate via Daily Times (Pakistan), 29 Dec 04 Costas Synolakis: Why there was no warning -- The science - and culture -of tsunami 'hazard mitigation', Wall Street Journal, 29 Dec 04 Editorial: Asia's devastation -- The terrible toll from the tsunami should prompt a huge relief effort, but also better cooperation bet. the region's countries, The Economist, 29 Dec 05 (incl link to: Run like the wind) The freeing of the world�s textile trade: On Jan 1st, trade in clothes and textiles was freed of quotas that have bound it for the past 30 years, The Economist, 28 Dec 04 (Link to: EIU -- What happens when textile quotas end?[extended]) No warning: At warning center, alert for the quake, none for a tsunami, by M Kayal & assoc, New York Times (free registr. req'd), 28 Dec 04 (incl link to graphic) (Link to: US Oceanic & Atmos Admin; and Intl Coord Grp for Pacific tsunami warning system) J Bhagwati & A Panagariya: The bra in your wardrobe -- The longstanding Multi-fiber arrangement (MFA) on textiles is next to farm subsidies as most objectionable affliction of world trade, Wall St J (via CFR site), 27 Dec 04 Ernesto Zedillo: Latin American puzzles -- The region must accept that in order to grow it cannot have it both ways: investing little and investing wrong, Forbes, 27 Dec-10 Jan 05 Tsunamis' toll might have been lessened: Experts cite lack of warning system, by S Vedantam, Washington Post (free registr. req'd), 27 Dec 04 (Link to: US Geol. Survey--Tsunamis & earthquakes, incl link to Tsunami hazard mitigation prog.) Robert Guest: South Africa makes the mistake of focusing on race instead of prosperity, Wall Street Journal, 26 Dec 04 Editorial: America, the indifferent--Govt is quick to say it contributes more money to foreign aid than any other country. But the test is the percentage of natl. income a rich nation gives to poor, NYT(free registr req'd)| IHTrib, 23 Dec 04 Ralf Dahrendorf: Powers of the future -- As the year comes to an end, the most important global task remains unresolved, Project Syndicate via The Edge Daily (Malaysia), 21 Dec 04 The economy -- Five wild cards for 2005: What could throw the economy for a loop? Here are some threats worth watching, by J Cooper & assoc, Business Week, 20-27 Dec 04 & 27 Dec-3 Jan 05 What about the climate for business?: In its annual survey, BusinessWeek asked 60 biz economists for their views of the future of US economy, by J Mehring & assoc, 20-27 Dec 04 & 27 Dec-3 Jan 05 (incl link to slide show on econ indicators) Portfolio: Four countries you must own -- Once in a great while a trend takes hold that's so powerful, it transforms the entire global economy, by C Farrell & assoc, Business Week, 20-27 Dec 04 & 27 Dec-3 Jan 05 Jagdish Bhagwati & assoc: A comment on 'Shaking up trade theory' (letter to the editor), Business Week, 20-27 Dec 04 & 27 Dec-3 Jan 05 ; Shaking up trade theory: For decades economists have insisted that the US wins from globalization. Now they're not so sure, by A Bernstein, Business Week, 29 Nov-6 Dec 04; and From our archive: An elder challenges outsourcing's orthodoxy -- Nobel econ laureate Paul Samuelson is dissenting from conventional wisdom on globalization's benefits, by S Lohr, NYT (free registr req'd) | IHTrib, 9 Sep 04 Islam's happy faces: Call them the new faces of the Islamic world --Malaysia's Abdullah and Turkey's Erdogan, by O Matthews & L Holland, Newsweek, 20-27 Dec 04 & 27 Dec-3 Jan 05 Portfolio: Savvy investments for a year full of surprises -- Investors will have to distinguish between near-certainties and worrisome uncertainties, Business Week, 20-27 Dec 04 & 27 Dec-3 Jan 05 Editorial: The math deficit -- Last week, another intl. comparison of high school math & science scores was released, Washington Post (free registr. req'd), 19 Dec 04 (Link to: Statement by Trends in Intl Math & Sci Study and Web site, w/ list of 49 nations; summary rankings are in ch.1 of both reports) Editorial: Timely help for the Palestinians -- The aid package that US, Eur. & Arab nations are considering could help average Palestinians see benefits of embracing a peace plan, NYT (free registr req'd) | IHTrib, 18 Dec 04 World economy -- Dec. forecast for '05: Emerging markets have benefited, in part, from pick-up in OECD demand in '04, but the intl environment is gradually becoming less supportive, Economist Intelligence Unit, 17 Dec 04 Editorial: Making poverty history -- 2005 could be a big year in the fight against poverty, The Economist, 16 Dec 04 Hal Varian: Burden growing on pension group -- There is a fundamental fallacy in pension accounting, which assumes that ups and downs of stock mkt will cancel out over time, NYT(free registr req'd) | via his site, 16 Dec 04 Gregory Mankiw: It is time to fix Social Security -- Voluntary personal accounts will help save Social Security, Wall Street Journal (via his site), 16 Dec 04 [pdf] Why Iraq has fuel queues: Oil, oil, everywhere. But ne'er a drop for Iraqi fuel tanks. How, asks a furious driver, can an oil-producing country run out of fuel?, The Economist, 16 Dec 04 Editorial: Textiles and China -- The expiration of global textile quotas at the end of this month raises difficult issues for free-traders, Washington Post (free registr. req'd), 16 Dec 04 Raghuram Rajan: Credible policies will break the dollar's fall -- The recent decline is best seen as a wake-up call for govts to take the policy actions needed to tackle global imbalances, Fin. Times (via IMF site), 15 Dec 04 For Brazil's economy, the doctor is in: Its ex-Trotskyite finance minister, prescribing austerity, moves toward center, by T Benson, NYTimes (free registr. req'd) | IHTrib, 14 Dec 04 (Link to: Fin. & Devel.'s graphic--Brazil [pdf]) Made elsewhere--Bangladesh is surviving to export another day: The Jan 1 abolition of global trade quotas may not be as hard on textile makers in poor nations as many had thought, by K Bradsher, NYT(free registr req'd)| IHTrib, 14 Dec 04 Richard Haass: Why CEOs fail in Washington--Moving the wrong cheese: All the gurus say that govt needs to run more like a biz, but the reverse is now more often true, Newsweek, 13-20 Dec 04 Robert Rubin: At the crossroads -- Economic reality has not been altered by the election, and that reality is likely to create increasingly strong pressure for policy change, Newsweek, 13-20 Dec 04 Turkey economy -- New lira: Turkey will start 2005 with a new currency, reflecting the generally optimistic mood about economic prospects, Economist Intelligence Unit, 13 Dec 04 (Link to: IMF statement) Jeffrey Garten: A social safety net for the 21st century -- If I were asked to write Bush's inaugural address, I would focus on what I believe was his most far-reaching campaign commitment, Business Week, 13-20 Dec 04 Boardroom: China's big deals -- Is this a sign of America's economic decline?, Business Week, 13-20 Dec 04 (incl link to: The new power of brands) 2004 Global business influentials -- The list includes notables from, among others, Iraq, China, Ghana, Dubai, India & S Korea, Time/CNN,13 Dec 04 Karen Tramontano: Stitching up global labor rights -- Cambodia has not only established itself as competitive in textiles but has done so while also honoring labor rights code, Washington Post (free registr req'd), 11 Dec 04 Managing a m�nage � deux: To specialize, or to compete? That is the dilemma facing the United Arab Emirates, esp. its two largest cities, Abu Dhabi & Dubai, by Daniel Altman, Intl. Herald Tribune, 11 Dec 04 James Dobbins: 'Oil for food' worked--American outrage over diversion of UN-supervised Iraqi oil-for-food money seems to miss three salient points, Washington Post (free registr. req'd), 10 Dec 04 Wangari Maathai: Trees for democracy -- I believe the Nobel Committee recognized links bet. environment, democracy & peace and sought to bring them to worldwide attention, NYT(free registr req'd) | IHTrib, 10 Dec 04 A survey of Indonesia: It has gone from near-dictatorship to vigorous democracy. Now it needs to ensure that its people reap the benefits -- Intro and final section, by E McBride, The Economist, 9 Dec 04 Famine insurance -- Hedging vs. the horsemen: Ask an Ethiopian peasant what would most improve his life, and he is unlikely to mention arcane financial instruments like weather derivatives, The Economist, 9 Dec 04 Joseph Stiglitz: Bush's medicine is not working -- With the election over, the debate itself has much to teach us about economics, economic policy and media spin, Project Syndicate via Business Day (S Africa), 8 Dec 04 Editorial: Now, Afghanistan needs a parliament -- Fulfilling democracy will require electing a parliament, a much more difficult undertaking than pres. contest, NYTimes (free registr. req'd) | Intl. Herald Trib, 8 Dec 04 Martin Wolf: A dangerous hunger for American assets -- The challenge to the world is to wean itself off ever-rising US indebtedness sooner rather than later, Financial Times (via NYT site[free registr req'd]), 7 Dec 04 A Alesina & F Giavazzi: The American way of debt -- No country can accumulate debt forever - and what cannot last must sooner or later end, Project Syndicate via Financial Express (India), 7 Dec 04 Editorial: Investigating the UN -- It is hardly shocking to discover that competition has arisen bet. Sen. Coleman & Paul Volcker, w/ their separate investigations on oil-for-food program, WashPost (free registr req'd), 7 Dec 04 Editorial: The UN is lost in space -- On Planet UN: The Security Council provides no security, Wall Street Journal, 7 Dec 04 Book value: The pick of this year's crop of business books -- Running the gamut from Ted Turner to Alexander Hamilton, compiled by H Green, Business Week, 6-13 Dec 04 (incl link to: Graphic--BW's top 10) The Baltic e-republic -- 'If it works, you can break it': Since independence in 1991 little Estonia has used a knack for technology to make itself a largely wired nation, by Joshua Levine, Forbes, 6-20 Dec 04 Dollar's fall is an Asian dilemma: The dollar's decline is testing the nerve of Asia's central bankers, by J Brooke & K Bradsher, NYTimes via Intl. Herald Tribune, 6 Dec 04 Finland tops global school table, OECD says: Finland again came out top in latest 2nd Program for Intl. Student Assessment of 30 member states & 11 partner nations, BBC News, 6 Dec 04 (Link to: OECD statement, w/ link at bottom to PISA homepage) Bjorn Lomborg: False prophets, bad economics -- The world can't (or won't) pay for everything, so we have a moral obligation to set priorities, Newsweek, 6-13 Dec 04 Ruchir Sharma: The Great Wall -- Forget the rampaging growth numbers. China today looks much like Japan in the 1970s: about to slam into reality, Newsweek, 6-13 Dec 04 Robert Barro: Mysteries of the gaping current account gap -- The budget deficit isn't to blame, but spending discipline won't hurt, Business Week, 6-13 Dec 04 Bradford DeLong: The US pol. system breeds rampant 'voodoo econ.'--At this point, I as a pundit am supposed to come up with my magic plan. I do not have one. But there is a glimmer of hope, Proj Synd via Taipei Times, 2 Dec 04 (in this bilingual site, a 'language pack installation' sign may pop up--pls. select "cancel") Emerging market debt -- What crisis?: The events in Ukraine have barely dented emerging debt markets, The Economist, 2 Dec 04 Kofi Annan: Courage to fulfil our responsibilities--If UN is to meet today's unprecedented challenges and threats, world leaders must act on the recommendations of new report on collective security, Economist, 2 Dec 04 (incl link to report of high level panel) Martin Wolf: Why US is switching to a weak dollar policy -- The study by 2 leading intl. econ. is not about what will happen, but what could happen if US had to eliminate its current acct deficit, FT (via Rogoff's site), 1 Dec 04 Jeffrey Sachs: How to halve world poverty -- What needs to be done in 2005 to get the UN's Millennium Development Goals back on track, The World in 2005/The Economist (via his site), Nov '04 [pdf] Rodrigo de Rato: No half measures -- One lesson of the past decade is that there is no alternative to strong defenses against financial crisis, The World in 2005/The Economist (via IMF site), Nov '04 Economists are getting religion: Can organized faith be explained by supply and demand?, by J Weber & assoc, Business Week, 29 Nov-6 Dec 04 (incl link to: Graphic--The faith market: 5 economists' views) Jean Dreze: Don't forget India's poor: Economic reforms have left them behind, but there's no shortage of policies that could help, Time, 29 Nov-6 Dec 04 Gurcharan Das: The respect they deserve -- India's rich are doing well, and good for them - but the growing middle class is the real story, Time, 29 Nov-6 Dec 04 On the trail of bin Laden -- In the land of the Pashtun: The world's most wanted man took refuge in the crags & caves of Tora Bora's mountains, by T McGirk, Natl Geographic, Dec '04 (excerpts only, w/ multimedia links) Editorial: How America can meet 'the China price': Start by cutting the budget deficit. And boost funds for education, BusinessWeek, 29 Nov-6 Dec 04 (Link to: Special report--The China price) Celso Furtado -- An economist who offered radical interventionist policies for Brazil, he was the country's most renowned economist, by S Branford, The Guardian, 26 Nov 04 (Link to: The Celso Furtado Prize; and Google Print--Econ. Devel. of LatAm) Robert Shiller: Modern economy blurring the line bet. capital & labor --Complex financial capitalism is here to stay, & union leaders must study finance rather than condemn it, Proj Synd via Taipei Times, 26 Nov 04 (in this bilingual site, a 'language pack installation' sign may pop up--pls. select "cancel") At ranch, Bush plays host to Spanish king: Visit is part of outreach to Europeans, by Mike Allen, Washington Post (free registr req'd), 25 Nov 04 Editorial: China's Latin business trip -- Its increased presence in Latin America may have the healthy side effect of spurring Washington to stop taking the region for granted, NYTimes (free registr. req'd), 25 Nov 04 << Previous Home Next >> Copyright (c) 2001-2008 Leonardo L. Sta. Romana All rights reserved. |
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