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From Bismarck to Orwell: Controlling costs in aging societies
If every cloud has a silver lining, it is also true that every ray of sunshine casts a shadow. This is particularly apparent with mankind’s recent success in improving health and prolonging lives. The world’s developed countries, which are already seeing public budgets strained by rising healthcare and pensions costs, […]
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New Dimensions of Trade Barriers: “Let’s Bury Doha!”
Logistics, mostly international transportation, accounts for 20 per cent of consumer good prices. In addition, a large share of international trade takes place by air. The EU is trying right now to include aviation in its emissions trading scheme. The overall costs of this for the aviation sector will be […]
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The Finance Minister of my Country is the Monsoon
For the good of the developing world, we need to consider not only long-term adaptation and mitigation strategies but also approaches that will deal with the present-day effects of climate change.
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The weather is our finance minister: climate change in the developing world
Is the ultimate technological solution just around the corner, or will further technological fixes take us farther from the flexible, diversified system we need to respond to our volatile world?
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Internet Governance. A Debate With Few Debaters
If I’d have to contribute, my solution would be – educate people, journalists, educators themselves, about the Internet Governance before it’s too late.