... the scale of the decline in economic activity this year is set to overshadow the depths of the fall observed more than a decade ago.
Notwithstanding the relatively recent periods of volatility and several waves of crises in the past decade, the world economy this time around was caught off-guard. For markets the current crisis will likely involve a re-assessment of global risks, among which those of resurgent epidemics episodes are complemented by other global vulnerabilities such as breaches of cybersecurity,...
The current worldwide economic decline might question the positions of the country
The structure of the Chinese economy is very complex and requires a high degree of planning in both micro- and macroeconomic areas. Since 1953, this system of planning has been performed by creating so-called ‘five-year plans’. The idea of implementing five-year plans came from ...
... per 100,000
Chronic Lower Respiratory Diseases: 10,000 deaths or 30.0 per 100,000
Accidents: 9,700 deaths or 29.5 per 100,000
In 2018 there were 4,157 suicides in Canada: making it the 9
th
leading cause of death behind Alzheimer’s Disease. With an economy currently on life support in some sectors, the number of suicides will likely climb higher this year as people succumb to job loss, the inability to pay their mortgage or credit loans, and bankruptcies. In the last month alone, there have been ...
...
Government efforts, active work of India’s business and joint steps undertaken by India’s public bodies and private entrepreneurs who are equally cognizant of the digital transformation’s significance, difficulties and prospects for India’s economy and society as a whole have advanced the process of shaping India’s new digital realities.
Dattesh Parulekar:
India and Latin America: When a Rising Power and an Emergent Growth Pole Engage
In 2015, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced ...
... match its powerful economic status with a benevolent state image internationally
Amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, all eyes, yet again, are on China, which many expect, equally enthusiastically and alarmingly, to become the world’s largest economy over the next few decades. The economic growth, though, does not automatically root out all sources of disparity even if it shrinks the overall scope of inequality.
Being almost exactly in the middle on the Gini line between total inequality and ...
Ambassador Anatoly Antonov's Open Letter
U.S. Department of State
The United States Department of Justice
Federal Bureau of Prisons
U.S. Department of State
The United States Department of Justice
Federal Bureau of Prisons
The U.S. authorities demand to release the American citizens jailed abroad (
https://www.state.gov/secretary-michael-r-pompeo-at-a-pres…/
). They are promising to impose sanctions against “guilty governments”, should their compatriots die due to the coronavirus.
Meanwhile...
... more evident that saving a life requires strict control measures. However, universal quarantine in Egypt is not on the government’s agenda, and there is an explanation for this. The coronavirus posed a dilemma for world leaders: saving people or the economy. The socio-economic crisis in which the Arab Republic found itself long before the epidemic leaves the Egyptian authorities with no choice. The Egyptian president once
said
that the two main challenges facing the ARE are terrorism and population ...
... production (the first industrial revolution), for example, was the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars. The First World War was preceded by the emergence of mass production (the Second Industrial Revolution). The universal computerization of the economy (the Third Industrial Revolution) took place alongside the collapse of the Soviet Union and socialism as a whole and the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact. It is logical to assume that the coronavirus pandemic is a test of sorts to see if the global ...
A Russia-EU-Africa Strategy for Economic Development and Prosperity. Policy Brief #25/2020
Policy Brief #25/2020
A Russia-EU-Africa Strategy for Economic Development and Prosperity
Russia and the European Union are in the ambitious pursuit of Africa’s heart. Both parties continue to pursue their own rigorous cooperation strategies with the continent – Russia is preparing to open its very first industrial zone in Egypt, and the EU has guaranteed its seat at African Continental Free Trade Agreement...
Interview by Permanent Representative of Russia to the EU Ambassador Vladimir Chizhov for "Die Welt"
Ambassador, how would you describe EU – Russia relations today?
They have stabilised at an abnormally low level following the imposition of unilateral restrictive measures – sanctions, as Europeans call them – against my country.
And now?
I see a growing need on both sides to bring our relations back to normal and work more closely with each other again. We had well-functioning structures...
