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World's hungry reach more than 1 billion in '09: U.N.A combination of the food crisis and the global economic downturn has pushed more than 1 billion people into hunger in 2009, U.N.
Meredith Whitney: The Credit Crunch Continues"Anyone counting on a meaningful economic recovery will be greatly disappointed. How do I know? I follow credit, and credit is contracting. Access to credit is being denied at an accelerating pace. Large, well-capitalized companies have no problem finding credit.
"So-called" economic recovery fragile: Harper - Yahoo! NewsPrime minister of Canada-Stephen Harper warning that the recovery efforts need to continue
Kerala hosts conference on recession and the GulfTHIRUVANANTHAPURAM - The Kerala capital is set to host a two-day international conference beginning Tuesday on the global economic crisis, its impact on Gulf nations and its implications for migrant labour, including Indians, working there.
Isolated Honduras hunkers downPolitically isolated Honduras braced on Saturday for months of austerity under the weight of economic sanctions imposed after a June coup and ousted President Manuel Zelaya vowed actions to support his reinstatement.
Into Darker HearthsWHILE THE recession, stock-market fluctuations, job losses, stimulus packages to revive industry and efforts to pull the GDP growth back to 9 percent are making headlines, a crucial subtext stands ignored...
The Revenge of Karl Marx The late Huw Wheldon of the BBC once described to me a series, made in the early days of radio, about celebrated exiles who had lived in London.
Chinese villagers beat up officials over land grabThousands of people from seven villages who lost their land to a mining company staged a violent protest that left 20 people injured in mid-eastern China's Anhui Province, a human rights watchdog said Thursday.
U.S.-China Relations | The Special RelationshipThere are many ways to measure the quality of a relationship. Durability, loyalty, profitability and compatability, to name just a few. In diplomacy, ties between states rest inevitably on the mutual benefit each perceives in the arrangement.
G20 summit: European demands threaten to wreck deal France and Germany delivered a late threat to derail Gordon Brown's efforts to secure a global recovery deal last night by demanding new concessions from the United States on financial regulation.
China speaks and the world finally listensThroughout its 30-year climb out of poverty, China has taken excruciating care not to alarm the rest of the world with its growing might.
March 20 -- Over 200 marches were staged from Lille in the north to Marseilles, Nice and Toulon on the Mediterranean.
March 17 -- "Capitalism as a system has failed. The economic order is unfair and irresponsible.
March 12 -- The ludicrous accusations that US President Barack Obama is a 'latent socialist' demonstrate the embarrassingly shallow understanding most American commentators, news reporters and 'pundits' of their own economic base and political infrastructure.
Nowhere Near End of Crisis: Dr. Doom Nouriel Roubini, one of the few economists who foretold much of the current financial turmoil, Friday said the United States is nowhere near the end of the banking and credit crisis.
An economic pact with the devilThis analysis from the Sueddeutsche Zeitung (Germany) argues that America's economic fling with China has helped bring down both economies and the world economy to boot -- and the future's not looking too rosy either.
British Prime Minister to meet with Pope about recession. Who knows why?Mr Brown will talk to Pope Benedict XVI about the global financial crisis and the worldwide response to the economic meltdown. Gordon Brown will visit the Vatican next week for an audience with the Pope – his first meeting with the Pontiff since he became Prime Minister.
With 14% unemployment, the Spanish jobs black hole deepens (article with video)the tenth straight monthly increase as the collapse of the Spanish housing boom coincided with the global financial crisis.
Poverty News Blog: Yunus defends the poor at the World Economic ForumNobel laureate and founder of micro credit Muhammad Yunus attended the World Economic Forum. He spoke out in defense of the poor to the ultra rich gathered at the forum. Yunus reminded them that the poor would be the worst effected by the global economic crisis.
Stimulus Plan Too Small and Not Tackling the Essential ProblemThe interventions so far have been in the right direction. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has been especially inventive and aggressive. But the theory of animal spirits and the loss of confidence tell us that a great deal more still needs to be done.
Prime Minister's Panel says Techies will remain in demandI just hope the task force is not taking a complacent view. The reports from Indian Tech Schools contradict this. Manoj Verma- Tech Panel- Nav Kranti
Jürgen Habermas on politics, bankruptcy and possibilities for the futureThe Korean War marked the end of the New Deal, Reagan and Thatcher and the waning of the Cold War the end of the era of social welfare programs.
The Dirty Dozen - Percy S Mistry on coping with a global economic slumpPercy S Mistry: Coping with a global economic slump
Global economic crisis hits Japanese banks, exportersJapan's stock market has been hit by extraordinary volatility over the past few days, hitting a 26-year low on Monday before recovering its losses yesterday after the government stepped in to announce a series of emergency measures.
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