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Microcredit—Still Sexy?
Nearly seven years ago, the United Nations (UN) declared that 2005 was the ‘year of microcredit.’ Thirty years after Bangladeshi economist Muhammad Yunus pioneered the phenomenon of microcredit (also known as micro-...
Cuba And The Con
Cuba is a country with personality to spare. With its legacy in music, dance, rum and revolutionaries, it has a culture and people unlike much else. With all of its unique character, however, it has an array of unique problems....
A Pope-Mortem
The story on everyone’s lips, and twitter feeds, is the stunning revelation that Pope Benedict XVI (Joseph Ratzinger) has called an end to an almost eight year reign at the helm of the Catholic Church, citing the fact that hi...
China’s Orderly Transition
Whilst the world was captivated earlier this month by the drama of the US election, many miles away in China elites were jockeying amongst themselves behind closed doors to secure positions within the Politburo’s highest deci...
Daily News Roundup – 29 August 2012
Europe Rich should pay more tax – Nick Clegg Nick Clegg, the leader of Britain’s junior coalition party and deputy prime minister, has suggested in an interview with the Guardian newspaper that the rich should be asked t...
Obamacare-The Democrats On Thin Ice?
The recent implementation of Obama’s healthcare law has been aptly omnipresent in the American media sphere. The flawed rollout has seen millions of people lose their insurance coverage, problems with signing up on the websit...
