Articles in English

Venezuela has defaulted on two of its US dollar-denominated sovereign bond issues. Downgrading Venezuela’s sovereign rating to SD (“selective default”), the ratings agency Standard & Poors said that Venezuela had “failed to make $200 million in coupon payments for its global bonds due 2019 and 2024 within the 30-calendar-day grace period”

16 ноября 2017 0 5157

Keep Investor Support When Your Business Is In Crisis

Almost every start-up has near-death experiences: times when the business is not delivering, money is short, and employees are wavering. Entrepreneurs often call on investors to give them sea room in which to fix problems and rebuild momentum. Great leaders use the tools described below to rebuild investor confidence and win another chance to succeed

15 ноября 2017 0 5806

Leadership In Russia: Back To The USSR?

November 7 — the day of the Great October Revolution (using the Julian calendar) — was the day the Party pulled out all the stops

14 ноября 2017 0 5804

A Roadmap to End Cholera

“Where is your toilet?” This is often the first question I ask when I visit the site of a cholera outbreak anywhere in the world. More often than not, the answer is: “We don’t have one. We go wherever we can.”

13 ноября 2017 0 6617

Closing the Education Gender Gap

Completing primary school in Niger was never a certainty for Aishetu Mahmoudu Hama, given all the obstacles that stood in her way. “It was hard to study,” she recalls. “We sat on the ground – sometimes on a mat, sometimes just in the dirt.”

10 ноября 2017 0 10401

Four Activities To Kickstart The Family Budget

The words “family” and “budget” are not often seen together. As parents, you may have questions about how much you should get your children involved in family finances. I feel strongly about using your home as an incubator for real life money issues. Otherwise, it’s hard to expect your kids to grow up to understand the real world of money

09 ноября 2017 5 мин. 6502

How Markets Are Reacting To Saudi Arabia's Detentions

In Saudi Arabia this weekend, a torrent of big news events, including the detention of several high ranking officials, has raised questions, and, the public markets were a useful place to judge local and global perception

08 ноября 2017 0 6044

Fake News and Biased News

Interviews are always tricky. If an unscrupulous interviewer is looking for a particular answer or claim, they have the power to edit, manipulate, or even rewrite their subject’s words to that end. That is why I have long taken pains to check carefully quotations attributed to me by the media. But, when it comes to television or radio interviews, it seemed to me that such distortions would be more difficult to pull off. I was wrong