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Big Think recently approached top economic thinkers from around the world for policy recommendations that could catalyze the needed structural changes to pull the global economy out of recession. Included […]
Big Think recently approached top economic thinkers from around the world for policy recommendations that could catalyze the needed structural changes to pull the global economy out of recession. Included […]
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Dr. Heizo Takenaka describes the policy changes needed for global economic recovery.
Big Think recently approached top economic thinkers from around the world for policy recommendations that could catalyze the needed structural changes to pull the global economy out of recession. Included […]
Big Think recently approached top economic thinkers from around the world for policy recommendations that could catalyze the needed structural changes to push the global economy out of recession. Included […]
With calls to put London bankers under the guillotine coming from the protest-filled streets of the city, financiers under pressure may wish to consider a few recommendations and alterations to […]
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Moyo argues that any political restructuring is moot until there is a program of sustainable growth.
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While small-scale aid and charities are doing important work in Africa, they are not able to provide the jobs that are necessary for long-term growth.
Google China-Top100.cn arrival on the Chinese web is set to mark a new precedent in the age of downloadable music. It’s likely it will also drive the pirates to new […]
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Dambisa Moyo on how the U.S. makes bad leaders worse
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Dambisa Moyo discusses the impact of reducing African aid budgets.
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“Aid disenfranchises Africans…[they] cannot hold their governments accountable,” says author Dambisa Moyo.
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A conversation with Dambisa Moyo, former Goldman Sachs economist and author of Dead Aid: Why Aid is Not Working and How There is a Better Way For Africa
Big Think recently approached five leading economists for their best predictions on when we will be out of the mess known as our national economy. Watch for their commentary in […]
Diogenes is not a name regularly invoked in New York State politics, but the original father of cynicism re-appeared in Albany Senate chambers recently, in the form of a political […]
In an effort to reach out to a younger audience and shed some of its bastion-of-the-cold-war image, NATO has launched a new web effort in advance of the organization’s summit […]
The basketball and hip-hop culture term "dunkadelic" was created in 1997. Should the hoops and hip-hop inspired term be applied to the American English dictionary?