All posts tagged economy

Davos and Porto Alegre (WSF) 2008
January 28, 2008, 1 Comment

January 28, 2008 Davos Diary: The schmooze of the world Extreme brainpower meets extraordinary wealth at the annual Worl ...

Wednesday Night #1345 – with Marc Garneau
December 12, 2007, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1345 – with Marc Garneau

Photos of the evening by Robert Galbraith The timing of Mr. Garneau’s first visit to Wednesday Night could not pos ...

Wednesday Night #1336 Update – More on Tar Sands
December 10, 2007, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1336 Update – More on Tar Sands

Trucks on the tar sands of Alberta. Photograph: Jeff McIntosh/AP     This Canadian wilderness is set to be inv ...

Wednesday Night #1341
November 14, 2007, 3 Comments

14 November 2007 A few weeks ago, Tony Deutsch suggested as a topic the subject of the New York Times article “The ...

Wednesday Night #1340
November 7, 2007, 2 Comments

7 November 2007 It’s a very mixed and quite bleak bag this week, with the crisis in Pakistan dominating the intern ...

Wednesday Night #1338
October 24, 2007, 4 Comments

24 October 2007 Lately, we have spent a lot of time agonizing over the political scene in this country. So much so, that ...

Wednesday Night #1331
September 5, 2007, 1 Comment

The Report The attack on Charles Taylor & the Templeton Prize Richard Martineau of Le Journal de Montréal, the unin ...

China’s Growing Presence in Africa
July 18, 2007, Comments Off on China’s Growing Presence in Africa

18 July 2007 By Isabel Chimangeni IPS Lusaka Votes cast for presidential contender Michael Sata in the recent election s ...

Wednesday Night #1323
July 11, 2007, 5 Comments

Scribe’s Prologue Individual feeling of entitlement usually take precedence over the collective sense of responsib ...

Wednesday Night #1319
June 13, 2007, 1 Comment

Isn’t the summer weather lovely? So lovely in fact that we are having a very hard time concentrating on serious ma ...