“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 and [...]
Continue reading...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 hard-core free-market [...]
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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 Mankiw, chair [...]
Continue reading...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 the truism [...]
Continue reading...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 wanted [...]
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