World News

ICGEgypt

Has the Egyption revolution achieved anything, and what's ahead for Egypt? The International Crisis Group takes a look.

2nd MAR 2011

StateWorldsChildren

The 2011 iteration of the State of the Worlds Children report is this year dedicated to the world's 1.2 billion teenagers, 88% of which live in developing nations

27th FEB 2011

zIndex

Students at Charles University in Prague recently developed the zIndex, an index tracking public tenders in the Czech Republic.

15th FEB 2011

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The cost of feeding millions of starving people increased markedly in 2010 as rising grain prices pushed up the cost of staple foods, data from the World Food Program shows.

10th FEB 2011

APTOPIX Mideast Egypt

An interesting article appearing on the Guardian website, authored by Imaduddin Ahmed, about sharia economics.

7th FEB 2011

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The Economics and Peace Faculty Network is a a consortium of faculty and leading scholars brought together by the Aspen Institute’s Center for Business Education and the Institute for Economics and

7th FEB 2011

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Concerned that the foreign aid budget could be cut as Congress deals with a mounting fiscal crisis, influential voices from government and philanthropy are calling attention to the benefits of – and

6th FEB 2011

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New research suggests the whole world could switch to renewable energy sources using current tech in just 20 to 40 years. It would cost no more than current energy, and would have big economic and eco

31st JAN 2011

Protesters in Egypt are responding in large part to a widening gap between rich and poor, one expert says

Protesters who have taken to the streets in several Arab nations of North Africa are angry at their own governments, and lashing out over some specific problems in their countries. What unites them?

28th JAN 2011