Posts Tagged ‘featured’
 

 

Bringing Stability Back to Jamaica’s Finances

Fiscal reform is never fun, even less so when it comes as an eleventh-hour necessity. For Caribbean states especially, “fiscal reform” is hissed in the public sector as the foulest Jamaican bad word. Nowhere does this ri...
by Donovon Kellyman
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Hong Kong and China’s influence: Much ado about nothing?

It seems an unlikely question, is Hong Kong falling to the weight of The People’s Republic of China? Hong Kong has always been (and still is) seen as a cosmopolitan city of democracy, human rights and capitalist glory. Hong K...
by Jessica Trevis
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The CUTting-edge of Russian Universities

The Ministry of Education has come up with fifty criteria evaluating the strengths and weaknesses of  Russian universities in order to unite the more successful universities with the “weak” ones, cutting the number of the ...
by Ekaterina Mordvinova
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The Falkland Islands: It’s Really Quite Simple

To commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Falklands War, Argentina has decided to reassert its claims over the South Atlantic isles (which it calls Las Malvinas), taking its case to the United Nations and pushing through a ser...
by David Rutter
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Daily News Roundup – 2 July 2012

  Europe Barclays chairman quits after libor scandal  Marcus Agius, the chairman of Barclays plc, has quit the bank today after five and a half years following revelations that some of the bank’s traders tried to manipu...
by Richard Scott-Jones
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Banks and Beaches: 40 Years of Banking and Finance in the Cayman Islands

When one hears a reference to the Cayman Islands, it is normally in connection with criminal activity: drugs, money laundering, and tax evasion. This tiny territory in the western Caribbean has earned quite a reputation – one...
by Donovon Kellyman
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Daily News Roundup – 8 October 2012

  Europe Eurozone rescue fund to be launched The European Stability Mechanism (ESM), the eurozone’s new permanent fund to bail out struggling economies and banks, will be launched later today at a meeting of finance mini...
by Richard Scott-Jones
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THE LAST DAYS OF MARIO – Mario Monti and Italy in Europe: a winning strategy?

[twitter style=”horizontal” source=”intlpolitical” float=”left”][fbshare type=”button” float=”left”] European leaders managed to end the last yet ‘crucial’...
by Mattia Braida
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DAILY NEWS ROUNDUP – 31 AUGUST 2012

Africa & Middle East UN due to meet over Syria refugee crisis The United Nations Security Council is due to meet with Turkey to discuss the refugee crisis instigated by what is now being described as a civil war. Turkey is ...
by Tom Dunbar
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