COVID-19 continues to disrupt schoolchildren’s right to a quality education. In March 2021, schools in 57 countries were still closed, according to the World Bank. Deloitte launched the WorldClass Education Challenge on the World Economic Forum’s UpLink platform to search for innovators who are bridging gaps in learning and access. Deloitte will invest US$1 million […]
The dollar surged higher and hit key resistance levels as Canada went to the polls on Monday. Riskier assets headed south which has benefited the greenback as a safe-haven currency. Prime Minister Trudeau and his Conservative challenger O’Toole appear to be running neck and neck. Technical Analysis The dollar moved higher against the Loonie, […]
Sept 20 (Reuters) – U.S. Federal Reserve officials will lay bare how soon and how often they think the economy will need interest rates rises over the next three years when they release new forecasts at their policy meeting on Wednesday, with investors on alert for a faster pace of tightening. The so-called “dot plot,” […]
Executives at the fashion brand Eileen Fisher are no strangers to China—or to its enormous benefits and dangerous pitfalls: The American outfitter began manufacturing its clothing there about a quarter century ago, but last year, it realized that working in China could no longer be business as usual. The catalyst was Beijing’s repression of China’s […]
For a government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi sensitive to charges of corporate favouritism, acquiring substantive shareholding in a private company is a leap of faith. Buried in the fine print of the telecom package was this provision that lets the government do exactly that. Even in the United States, in the wake of […]
Beneath the rhetoric about inflation and deficits, business investment and family farms, tax rates and benefit levels lies the volatile question of economic redistribution. Government attempts to do that trigger intense resistance from those asked to pay and amorphous skepticism even from some who would come out ahead. And whether polling shows the specifics popular […]
The Pakistani rupee is expected to stay steady in the coming week. “We see rupee stable in the days ahead, despite rising economic uncertainty,” says analyst. Markets seeing sharp exodus of foreign currency from equity markets ($80 million in the first 17 days of September). Central bank’s dollar selling interventions helped arrest rupee’s plunge. KARACHI: […]
Washington — Six months after signing a massive economic stimulus package into law, President Joe Biden has embarked on a fresh push for trillions of dollars in additional spending, attempting to pivot from an emergency posture to advancing a long-term liberal vision of government. Taking to the podium in the East Room of the White […]
Robert Oppenheimer, known as the “father of the atomic bomb”, famously quoted the Hindu text the Bhagavad-Gita: “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.” Oppenheimer knew he had unleashed a weapon that could destroy humanity itself. Australia has now crossed that threshold into the nuclear world. We won’t be deploying nuclear weapons, but we […]
The decolonial approach in this collection of studies offers an important and at times over looked perspective of how Palestinians have become ensnared in a settler-colonial and neoliberal project. “Political Economy of Palestine: Critical, Interdisciplinary and Decolonial Perspectives” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021) illustrates how Palestinians live between erasure and endurance in terms of Israel’s colonial expansion, […]
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