Press Gallery: Engineered Economy of Pakistan
Region: Pakistan
Engineered Economy of Pakistan Press Gallery Saeed Minhas Islamabad: Lack of governance or bad governance, no matter how we look at it sounds synonymous but in reality what one can witness from the ongoing parliamentary... more
Views: 765In France: The Fall of Dominique Strauss-Kahn?
Region: FranceWritten by Claire Ulrich, GlobalVoices On Sunday 15 May, 2011, France awoke to a political earthquake: a sex scandal involving the (now former) French president of the IMF (International Monetary Fund), Dominique Strauss-... more
Views: 2873Dominique Strauss-Kahn is a Dangerous Man
Region: United StatesDominique Strauss-Kahn, the current Managing Director of the IMF¹ (International Monetary Fund), has been arrested on Saturday afternoon in New York, as he was about to take off at JFK airport, on board an Air... more
Views: 3400Videogame Watchdog NIMF Releases Its 13th Annual Top 10 Violent Games List
Region: United StatesA conservative organization known as the “National Institute on Media and the Family,” which watches over the video game industry has released its annual “report card.” Actually, it is the group&rsq... more
Views: 1150Marie Antoinette, Meet Angelo Mozilo
Region: United States
- by Tula Connell This is a cross-post from the Firedoglake blog. Here’s an idea. Instead of retiring when we turn 65, let’s go to work scrubbing tables at the nearest fast-... more
Views: 1328Public Tribunal Against World Bank and IMF formed
Region: BangladeshLeftist political parties, mass organizations and individuals of Bangladesh announced to formation of a People’s Tribunal against the World Bank, International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Asian Development Bank (ADB)... more
Views: 2010Macro-economy facing challenging time
Region: Bangladesh
Macro-economy of Bangladesh is facing a challenging time due to high inflation and slow-down of overall economic activities following erosion of business confidence. "Bangladesh is now facing a very challenging macro-econo... more
Views: 2108Joseph Stiglitz - Notes on his book-chat at The New School Univ. (NYC)
Region: New YorkThis is not a book review. I have not read Joseph Stiglitz's book "Making Globalization Work." That being said... last night (12/05/06) Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz spoke at the John Tishman audit... more
Views: 2310Pakistan Faces Bankruptcy: Low Reserves, High Inflation
Region: PakistanPakistan is passing through extreme difficult times and is on the verge of bankruptcy if foreign exchange reserves and inflation are any indicators. At the end of the first week of October’2008, the FE reserves... more
Views: 1455Ireland has an austerity plan to reduce public spending by 1,400 million in 2012
Region: United StatesThis sum is add another 755 million euros that the Dublin government intends to cut spending on infrastructure, announced days ago. "Our country has suffered a major economic crisis in living memory, which has cau... more
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