Bosnia’s Continuing Chaos
Louise Arbour Fourteen years after its brutal war ended, Bosnia is today in political, if not literal, turmoil. Half of the country is deadlocked in a feud with the...
Global Climate Change Treaty Delayed
Selah Hennessy Senior negotiators at a U.N. conference in Barcelona say a legally binding environment treaty will be delayed. In the final day of a weeklong conference, world leaders...
Experts advise WHO on pandemic vaccine policies and strategies
The Strategic Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE) on Immunization, which advises WHO on policies and strategies for vaccines and immunization, devoted a session of its 27–29 October meeting to pandemic...
Huge amounts of avoidable post-harvest losses worsens hunger for poor – UN
The plight of the hungry in developing countries is needlessly aggravated by farmers losing up to half of their crops after gathering the harvest, the United Nations agricultural agency said...
Real wages under pressure as global economic crisis continues to bite, UN report finds
Real wages appear to be stagnating worldwide for the second consecutive year, underlining the fragility of any potential recovery from the global economic crisis, the United Nations International Labour Organization...
Beyond the 2001 financial crisis: The political economy of the new phase of neo-liberal restructuring in Turkey
Prof. Ziya Onis Turkey has experienced consecutive financial crises in 2000 and 2001. The crisis of 2001 was particularly far-reaching in terms of its impact, resulting in a major...
The demise of the dollar
Robert Fisk In a graphic illustration of the new world order, Arab states have launched secret moves with China, Russia and France to stop using the US currency for...
Summer Note: A Sense of Unreality
Prof. Francis Fukuyama There is a pervasive sense of unreality in Washington about the nature and scale of the economic crisis facing the United States and the world. The...
Turkey: IMF Talks Provide Way To Gauge Ankara’s Fiscal Discipline
Nicholas Birch Turkey and the International Monetary Fund will be making a final push in the coming weeks to see whether they can conclude a loan agreement, according to Prime...
The Estimation of Growth Effects of Regional Economic Integration Between Turkey and New Turkic Republics by Using Fixed Effect Technique (1991-1998)
Bayram GÜNGÖR 1. Introduction as known, Kazakstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan are the Turkic States which are situated in Central Asia and Caucasia. The collapse of...
“ÇANLAR KİMİN İÇİN ÇALIYOR”
Piyasaların Dolar Çıkmazı ve Yeni Küresel Para Birimi Arayışı Özgür Tüfekçi 1929 Ekonomik Buhranı’ndan beri dünya piyasalarının yaşadığı en büyük krizlerden birisi olan 2008 ekonomik krizi Amerika Birleşik...
The Age of Disorganization
Ian Bremmer and Flynt Leverett as states large and small struggle to cope with and find a way out of the current economic crisis, it is not too early to...
Whose Policy is it Anyway? Interest Groups and the War on Poverty
Cameron Gordon london Johnson launched the Great Society programme in 1964. In the end, the ‘War on Poverty’ failed to live up to all of its promises. To explain these...
Thinking About the Future of American Capitalism
Francis Fukuyama There is a pervasive sense of unreality in Washington about the nature and scale of the economic crisis facing the United States and the world. The Obama Administration...
Küresel Krizin Neresindeyiz?
Prof.Dr. Orhan Kuruüzüm Son iki yılda; kendi içimizdeki öncü ve temel ekonomik göstergelerin sürdürülebilir bir eğilimle gerçekleşmediğini, uçaktan atlamış ve paraşütünü açmamış bir paraşütçünün durumuna benzediğini örneklerle ve analitik...