In his writeup of this year’s gathering of politicians and businessmen in Davos (“Complacency in a Leaderless, Multipolar World,” The Moscow Times, Feb. 12, 2013), Nobel laureate in economics Joseph Stiglitz quotes with apparent approval a development expert who claimed […]
Read MoreLast weekend marked a year until the end of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. One of the reasons that both the International Olympic Committee and FIFA, the governing body of world football, often award countries the venue for these huge […]
Read MoreDrawing by Niyaz Karim Just before the start of the recent G20 summit in Los Cabos, Mexico, economists at the Brookings Institution announced that policy paralysis was hitting the global […]
Read MoreIn the 1990s, many economists in the U.S. and Europe predicted that the euro would fail. Yet precious few pointed to the West’s huge debt in the late 1990s – or forecast […]
Read MoreDeveloped economies may be in trouble, but those in emerging markets shouldn’t write them off yet. Official reactions in Moscow and Beijing to the debt debacle in Washington provide the […]
Read MoreЗападные ценности давно стали универсальными даже в тех странах, власти которых критикуют Запад Несмотря на бурный рост развивающихся стран, догнать развитые по уровню и качеству жизни им еще долго не […]
Read MoreГлобальный экономический форум в Давосе на прошлей неделе очередной раз показал, почему global outreach («разъяснительная кампания») в России неудачна: РФ еще не понимает внешний мир и не умеет с ним […]
Read MoreOn 29 January 2010, I posted a comment forecasting that Toyota will bounce back. Today, it was announced that Toyota retained its title as the world’s largest car manufacturer in […]
Read MoreЕсли Россия все еще хочет жить своим умом – это ее выбор Ключевой вопрос – может ли Россия избавиться от своего многовекового пофигизма и выйти на уровень Индии и Китая, […]
Read MoreThe boss of metals giant Alcoa, Klaus Kleinman, has said there are a lot of misconceptions about China in the West.Speaking on a panel at Davos, Mr Kleinman said it […]
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