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On the left side of the Atlantic there is plenty of chatter about so-called STEM jobs. Employers searching for candidates for these Science, Technology, Engineering, and…
A few days ago Prime Minister Julia Gillard released the long-awaited White Paper, setting out the “roadmap” for Australia’s relations with “Asia” until 2025. When this was first…
As luck would have it, two parliamentary delegations are currently planning a trip to Iran for the same date. This Sunday, four members of the European Parliament …
The economic system, globally, is outwardly and structurally liberal. Trade is the norm, isolationism is rare, and prices are generally the product of competition between…
When The Economist labels the UK Border Agency’s revocation of London Metropolitan University’s licence to teach international fee-paying students a “case of xenophobic populism…
Iran’s regular claim to be a superpower on par only with the United States usually makes people shrug. After all, the Islamic Republic appears to be very much a pariah on the…
Staff at my Siem Reap hotel in Cambodia were preparing for an influx of guests connected with the 44th ASEAN Economic Ministers meeting, and associated gatherings like the ASEAN-…
Like nearly all people interested in development economics, I’m always fascinated by new ideas about why foreign development aid has been, in general, such a miserable…
Two interconnected reasons have caused me to focus particularly on Syria in the past few days.
The first is straightforward enough. I have been finalising a book put together on…
Seen from Tehran, a trip to London looks like a journey to the heart of the Evil Empire. For as much as Europeans tend to regard the United Kingdom as “America’s Poodle”,…