September, 2007

The World Bank recently released its annual “Doing Business” report for 2008, which provides measures of business regulations and their enforcement across 178 countries.  According to the report,

It is a fact that is commonly overlooked: a large amount of thought often goes into designing the fonts that we read on road signs every day, in order for the information displayed to be easily legibl

In a past entry, this blog linked to the World Atlas of Faith, which provides visual information on the geographical location of various

Long regarded the poster children of outsourcing, major Indian companies like Infosys Technologies are now opening their own offices in low-cost parts of the world, including Mexico, China, and even t

Today, over 80 heads of state and government will meet "to forge broad agreement on a commitment to tackle climate change," ahead of this week's United Nations General Assembly meeting in New York. 

Since the Chinese government imposed the one-child legislation in 1979, a ‘systematic examination’ of the policy shows that it has prevented 400 million births.  The current five-year policy exte

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The UN and World Bank Fight Illicit Financial Flows

The UN’s Office on Drugs and Crime, in collaboration with the World Bank, has developed a new initiative to attempt to recover ill

The Globalisation Institute recently named Charlie McC

Is capitalism really killing democracy?  According to an article by Foreign Policy, “capitalism, long sold as the yin to democra