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By Stabroek staff | Thursday, October 15, 2009 | 0 Comments
History this week – No 2009/36
Part 5
By Shammane Joseph
This is the fifth instalment in a series of articles which gives a brief overview of the …
By Stabroek staff | Wednesday, October 14, 2009 | 3 Comments
Development Watch
By Tarron Khemraj
Introduction
In my previous column (Sep 30, 2009), I underscored the important distinction between competitive advantage and comparative advantage. I also noted that …
By Stabroek staff | Tuesday, October 13, 2009 | 4 Comments
Tuesday’s Economic Corner
By Peter R. Ramsaroop, MBA
INTRODUCTION:
The key factors to the economic development and sustainment of any country are simple and the same from the …
By Stabroek staff | Monday, October 5, 2009 | 0 Comments
This week we publish the thoughts of some of the exhibitors about the trade fair which is scheduled to end its six-day run tomorrow.
Interviews by …
By Stabroek staff | Monday, October 5, 2009 | 1 Comment
So It Go
By Dave Martins
From time to time I notice something, or experience something that leaves me wondering in a kind of bemused or intrigued …
By Stabroek staff | Monday, October 5, 2009 | 0 Comments
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Peace talks with Israel are in deadlock and tear gas and rocks are flying at Jerusalem’s holy sites, but for all the …
By Stabroek staff | Saturday, October 3, 2009 | 0 Comments
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Rio de Janeiro’s successful bid to host the Olympics in 2016 crowns Brazil’s remarkable rise over the past decade from …
By Stabroek staff | Saturday, October 3, 2009 | 1 Comment
- Peer Steinbrück is Germany’s Minister of Finance.
by Peer Steinbrück
BERLIN – What went wrong with global financial markets? In a nutshell: the implosion of …
By Allan Fenty | Friday, October 2, 2009 | 1 Comment
Struggling with my pride and patriotism
As one born within these Guyana borders who decided to let family go (most reluctantly) and live all my life …
By Stabroek staff | Friday, October 2, 2009 | 1 Comment
- Jean-Paul Fitoussi is Professor of economics at Sciences-po and President of OFCE (Sciences-po Center for Economic Research, Paris).
By Jean-Paul Fitoussi
PARIS – The bailout of …
By Stabroek staff | Friday, October 2, 2009 | 0 Comments
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – “Things develop ceaselessly,” said Chairman Mao Zedong in 1956, noting how much China had changed in 45 years. “In another 45 years… …
By Stabroek staff | Thursday, October 1, 2009 | 3 Comments
- Naomi Wolf is a political activist and social critic whose most recent book is Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries.
By Naomi Wolf
NEW …
By Stabroek staff | Wednesday, September 30, 2009 | 15 Comments
Development Watch
By Tarron Khemraj
Introduction
The National Competitiveness Strategy (hereafter NCS or the strategy) paper was completed in 2006 (see website: http://www.summit.org.gy/ncs.html). The strategy aims at …
By Stabroek staff | Wednesday, September 30, 2009 | 2 Comments
By Bernd Debusmann
When Mexico’s president, Felipe Calderon, ordered 2,500 troops and federal agents into border city Ciudad Juarez 17 months ago to tamp down drug …
By Stabroek staff | Tuesday, September 29, 2009 | 4 Comments
Tuesday’s Economic Corner
By Peter R. Ramsaroop, MBA
Introduction:
On July 21, 2009, I wrote a column titled, “Low Carbon-Measuring the Economic Impact”, where I concluded that Guyana …
By Stabroek staff | Tuesday, September 29, 2009 | 3 Comments
- John O’ Brennan is Director of the Centre for the Study of Wider Europe (www.widereurope.ie ) and Lecturer in European Politics and Society.
By John …
By Stabroek staff | Saturday, September 26, 2009 | 2 Comments
- Orville Schell is Director of the Center on US-China Relations at the Asia Society.
This article was received from Project Syndicate, an international not-for-profit association …
By Iana Seales | Friday, September 25, 2009 | 0 Comments
This is the fourth in a series of interviews with children who have been rescued by the Child Care and Protection Agency of the Ministry …
By Allan Fenty | Friday, September 25, 2009 | 0 Comments
What the jackass thinks
Really because they’re black?
I am a male donkey. That makes me a jackass from Guyana. Or put another way, I’m a Guyanese …
By Stabroek staff | Friday, September 25, 2009 | 2 Comments
Jeffrey D. Sachs is Professor of Economics and Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University. He is also a Special Adviser to United Nations …
