O Μίνωαs Ζομπανάκης στην Καθημερινή

Η Καθημερινή της Κυριακής έχει μια πολύ ενδιαφέρουσα συνέντευξη του οικονομολόγου Μίνωα Ζομπανάκη με τον Ηλία Mαγκλίνη.

Niall Ferguson: A Greek crisis is coming to America

Niall Ferguson: the idiosyncrasies of the eurozone should not distract us from the general nature of the fiscal crisis that is now afflicting most western economies. Call it the fractal geometry of debt: the problem is essentially the same from Iceland to Ireland to Britain to the US. It just comes in widely differing sizes.”

“Greece’s euro membership may end with a bang”, says Desmond Lachman.

“Greece’s euro membership may end with a bang”, says Desmond Lachman. Σίγουρα όχι τα καλύτερα νέα σε μια εποχή που η κυβέρνηση του Γιώργου Παπανδρέου αγωνίζεται να δώσει ελπίδα στους Έλληνες και να αυξήσει την αξιοπιστία της χώρας στο εξωτερικό

Christine Lagarde, the France’s finance minister won the fourth Financial Times’ annual European finance minister award

Ms Christine Lagarde, the France’s finance minister won the fourth Financial Times’ annual European finance minister award that reflects performances during the last twelve months.

Microcredit and trust brings economic justice.

Reading Vivian’s Norris de Montaigu post “Trust Is the Answer: Yunus and the Future of Everything” in the Business Fights Poverty the other day, I remembered that I had seen recently an interesting interview of Muhammad Yunus about the effects of access to mobile communications on the lives of lower-income people in Bangladesh.It was in [...]

The top 10 reforming governments in 2008

The Doing Business Reformers’ Club convened on 22 April, 2009, in Vienna, Austria, celebrated the achievements of the top 10 reforming governments in 2008. The Reformers Club this year includes the following countries: Azerbaijan, Albania, Kyrgyz Republic, Belarus, Senegal, Burkina Faso, Botswana, Colombia, Dominican Republic, and Egypt. According to the Colombian Vice Minister Ricardo Duarte, [...]

If being too big is a wrong practice, then why we are doing it again?

It has become very common and “fashionable” lately to say and indeed agree that the lack of regulation and being big (banks, companies etc) are two of the main reasons for the current bad and disastrous for the next generation situation, where governments, using taxpayers money, try to save businesses because if they don’t we may experience a collapse of the economic and social systems.

How much time do you spend in Traffic jams?

The survey in Italy’s ten largest cities and their provinces, shows that traffic jams gobbles up almost an hour a day of everyone’s time and cost 27 billions euro each year! If we leave money to one side, the number of hours spent in traffic jams is really shocking.

The Three Myths of Development.

The World Bank Institute and the Institute of Corporate Responsibility (ICR) are the leaders of this very interesting e-conference “Peace though Commerce” which discuss how ethical business practises can foster peace. The first theme of the conference is “The Role of Business in Advancing Peace through Commerce” and in this first day I marked out [...]

Οι “ατσίδες” Ιταλοί, οι ηθικοί Νορβηγοί και οι προοδευτικοί Ολλανδοί

Στη Δικαιοσύνη παραπέμπονται 109 αστυνομικοί και δημοτικοί υπάλλοι στην Ιταλία, οι οποίοι είχαν οργανώσει μία πρωτοφανή απάτη για να «κόβουν» περισσότερες κλήσεις στον δρόμο. Οι κατηγορούμενοι είχαν αλλάξει τις ρυθμίσεις στους φωτεινούς σηματοδότες, έτσι ώστε το πορτοκαλί φανάρι να γίνεται κόκκινο σε μόλις τρία δευτερόλεπτα, ενώ ο νόμος ορίζει ότι η αλλαγή πρέπει να γίνεται [...]

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