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Welcome to ISC 2010
“YOU are just few steps away from participating in the BIGGEST and MOST CHALLENGING student conference in the Central and Southeast Europe!“ Applications for participation at the conference HAVE STARTED! The 2nd International Student Conference “Time to Rethink Economics” is a place where young and innovative students develop their abilities in critical thinking of present [...]
Continue reading...Outsourcing: A View from Panama
Saturday, September 4, 2004
Import Workers or Export Jobs? Bend it WITH Beckham! by Javier Arias I. Forrester, a technology research and trend analysis firm, predicts the loss of some 3.3 million jobs by 2015 (200,000 per year) to outsourcing in the US alone. [1] The numbers, which are enough to inject fear and doubt in even the most [...]
Continue reading...Outsourcing: A View from Canada
Saturday, September 4, 2004
Unravelling the Rhetoric over Outsourcing by Aaron Holdway Until recently, sending white-collar jobs overseas to take advantage of lower labour costs seemed to many like an ideal business strategy. In recent months, however, outsourcing — the movement of jobs overseas [1] — has become the defining economic issue of this yearâ€TMs US election campaign. Gregory [...]
Continue reading...Still Against Free Trade
Friday, May 14, 2004
A Review of William Easterly’s “The Elusive Quest for Growth” by Julian Dautremont-Smith In “The Elusive Quest for Growth,” William Easterly methodically explains that previous approaches to development — such as “closing the financing gap,†education, population control, structural adjustment lending, and debt forgiveness — have all failed because they fail to take into account [...]
Continue reading...Economics Wins Again: The Canadian Government’s Approach to Endangered Species in its New Species at Risk Act
Saturday, January 3, 2004
by Aaron Holdway Canada‘s Environment Minister admits that the situation of endangered species in Canada has reached crisis proportions. Yet after nearly a decade of half-hearted legislative work, including two pieces of abandoned legislation, the federal governmentâ€TMs ultimate product has been what environmentalists have widely denounced as the worldâ€TMs weakest endangered species legislation. While environmentalists [...]
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- Welcome to ISC 2010
- Report published: WSC-SD at COP15
- Show us your sustainable campus project!
- Internship Programme at Sustainability Institute, South Africa
- Mobile exhibition on sustainable living
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Tuesday, February 9, 2010
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