Tag: economic growth
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The Lowdown on Doomsday
Wall Street Journal: The Lowdown on Doomsday Why the public shrugs at global warming. ……. And yet the public does not seem to feel all that heatedly about the warming of the planet. In survey after survey, American voters say that they care about global warming, but the subject ranks quite low when compared with…
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On the frontier of finance
The Economist: On the frontier of finance Taking advantage of more stable economies, banks are venturing deep into sub-Saharan Africa. NOT so long ago, a cruel joke among international bankers was that sub-Saharan Africa was less an emerging market than a submerging one. Local bankers had no reason to change that impression; for all the…
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Steady growth puts Africa on course to dent poverty: World Bank
M&C: Steady growth puts Africa on course to dent poverty: World Bank Johannesburg – A decade of healthy growth in Africa has put the continent on track to tackle its high poverty levels, the World Bank said Wednesday releasing its 2007 Africa Development Indicators (ADI). The ADI report is based on over 1,000 indicators covering…
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Wealth and Nations
TCS Daily: Wealth and Nations MONTERREY, Mexico — Is global capitalism making the poor even poorer, or is it in fact rescuing millions of people out of their misery? I recently had the chance to participate in a series of debates here about this issue organized by Foreign Policy magazine and Letras Libres, a Mexican…
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Theology and Economics: Economic Growth and Future Resources
I ended the last post by observing that what we need is not fewer people but more people who are stewards. Stewards are people who can get the most output with the least input on a sustainable basis. The obstacle to having more stewards is the grinding poverty that dominates vast regions of the world.…
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Missing The Boom
Missing The Boom is an Investor's Daily article about the roaring economy and the downbeat perception of the economy. Whether the disconnect is due mostly to media coverage, as the article suggests, is debatable, but this disconnect is very real.