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• Isolated Burma Awakens Amid Rising Expectations

  by Balbir Bhasin - Global Mind May 14, 2012

  The recent election to parliament of Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi and her party heralds a new dawn for this struggling South East Asian nation, now officially known as Myanmar. The Nobel laureate ...

• Has the “Shareholder Spring” Caught Up With Aviva’s CEO?

  by Julie Mandoyan May 10, 2012

  Heads are rolling - and the City of London coined the name of this revolution: “the shareholder spring.” It is threatening CEOs of major European companies. After the much discussed resignation of Aviva's CEO, Andrew ...

• Amidst the Carnage, Syria Finds a Loyal Ally in Hugo Chávez

  by Thor Halvorssen and Alex Gladstein April 17, 2012

  At a time when most nations are trying to figure out how to stop Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad from killing his own people in a year-long struggle to stay in power, the Venezuelan government is ...

• Pierre Tapie: More Brains to Understand Globalization

  by The Global Journal September 13, 2011

  Global governance issues are forcing universities and colleges to increase their capacity for research and understanding of phenomena outside the national sphere. For Pierre Tapie, what happens at the interface of the worlds of business ...

• WEF Calls For Governments To Expedite Adoption of Mobile Financial Services

  by Ami Field - TGJ Staff March 30, 2012

  In Fast Company magazine this month, Irin Carmon wrote about 32 year-old Nehemias Navas-Perez, a landscaper from New York who sends a couple of hundred dollars to his family in Guatemala every month. Remittances, she ...

• Why Democracy Matters

  by Irina Pavlova - TGJ Staff March 27, 2012

  The piercing anti-EU pronouncements of the Member of the European Parliament (MEP) present nothing new or surprising. As a former trader from the City of London, and the founding leader of the UK Independence Party ...

• Globalization at Risk: Challenges to Finance and Trade

  by The Global Journal March 6, 2012

  Finance and Trade are indeed in the eye of the storm, as for many citizens they appear to create more problems than solutions. In their name, politicians seem to avoid tough decisions at global level ...

• German Economy Minister Urges EU to Create a Reconstruction Commissioner

  by Annya Schneider - TGJ Staff March 2, 2012

  German Economy Minister, Philipp Roesler, has urged the EU to appoint a special commissioner assigned to supervise the implementation of reforms in member states affected by the debt crisis. Germany had already proposed a similar ...

• Why South Asia Needs To Invest in Women (Travelers)

  by Raksha Vasudevan - Global Minds February 28, 2012

  Tourism in south Asia generated approximately USD 103.8bn or 4.8% of the region’s total GDP in 2011. While this may seem significant, the relative contribution of the tourism industry to its national ...

• Clinton: It's All About Jobs

  by Ami Field - TGJ Staff February 23, 2012

  In this interconnected world, what happens in one country has a ripple effect throughout the global system. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton understands that, which is why she convened a global business ...

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