At a summit in California, US President Barack Obama is set to meet with the leaders of the ten countries of Asia’s most important regional grouping: the...
With banks taking a leading role in financing new government projects, business ventures on the anvil must reflect on the financial realities to serve the...
It is time to put the rise of the emerging economies in perspective. The rapid economic growth in much of the developing world since the beginning of the...
The liberal international order that has helped stabilize the world since the end of the Cold War is under strain. A revanchist Russia, chaos in the Middle...
It has long been said that we know more about the Moon than we do about the oceans. After all, 12 people have walked on the surface of the Moon, but only...
The outbreak of the Zika virus, like Ebola before it, has highlighted the risk that infectious diseases can pose to the health of entire countries – and...
One of the big unanswered questions in the finance world is: Do returns reflect risk or mispricing? Defenders of the efficient markets hypothesis say that...
The US Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit has struck down Maryland’s law regulating assault weapons, creating a split with the 2nd Circuit, which upheld...
There are approximately 90,000 people incarcerated in the prisons of Pakistan including men, women, juveniles, minors with their mothers and so on.
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