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The Scientologist Billionaire Trying To Make A New Antibiotic

The world is awash in cheap antibiotics -- so why is Bob Duggan working on a new one...and how is he going to make any money?

02 октября 2020 5 мин. 5454

The Curse of Falling Expectations

WASHINGTON, DC – Until COVID-19, many people in the developing world felt good about their futures. Overall, developing countries had recovered quickly from the 2009-10 Great Recession, and many – especially in Africa and Latin America – were enjoying the benefits of China’s ever-growing demand for oil, minerals, and agricultural commodities. Expectations were rising

01 октября 2020 6 мин. 4970

The Vise Tightens on the Dollar

NEW HAVEN – The US dollar has now entered the early stages of what looks to be a sharp descent. The dollar’s real effective exchange rate (REER) fell 4.3% in the four months ending in August. The decline has been even steeper as measured by other indexes, but the REER is what matters most for trade, competitiveness, inflation, and monetary policy

30 сентября 2020 5 мин. 6109

Are Intellectuals Killing Convergence?

NEW DELHI – How will COVID-19 affect developing countries’ growth prospects? The answer will depend largely on how globalization – and intellectual support for it – evolves in the pandemic’s aftermath. The prospects are not encouraging

29 сентября 2020 5 мин. 7763

The Pandemic Plutocrats: How Covid Is Creating New Fintech Billionaires

In 2015, Nick Molnar was living with his parents in Sydney, Australia, and selling jewelry from a desktop computer in his childhood bedroom

28 сентября 2020 10 мин. 8693

Trump Tower Has Collected $1.6 Million From The President’s Campaign, Including $38,000 Last Month

In all, Trump has moved $2.3 million from his presidential campaign to his private businesses

25 сентября 2020 3 мин. 7142

Kaspi.kz – no.1 in e-Commerce for the 3rd year in a row

Kaspi.kz 1st in the ranking of top e-commerce companies in Kazakhstan in 2020

24 сентября 2020 2 мин. 9412

Trump’s Spectacular Trade Failure

WASHINGTON, DC – Since World War II, the global economy has performed beyond the wildest dreams of its post-war architects, yielding unprecedented gains in health, education, living standards, poverty reduction, and wealth. Central to this success was the growth and liberalization of international trade, which was made possible with US leadership in the creation and stewardship of an open multilateral trading system