CESRAN Int.

Written by THE CURRENT MOMENT Saturday, 03 December 2011 15:57 A crisis of confidence says ECB President Mario Draghi, and just about everyone else. Confidence is lacking in the ability...

Written by THE CURRENT MOMENT Debt sustainability has emerged as one of the key issues of the day and one that brings the different poles of the rich world together:...

Written by DR. ALEX GOUREVITCH Among the Solonic reforms that made Athens democratic was the abolition of debt-bondage. In his history of Rome, Livy wrote that the Lex Poetelia of 326 BC,...

Written by DR. SUMANJEET SINGH Friday, 14 October 2011 17:51 Introduction The global financial crisis which was actually triggered by the US sub-prime mortgage market in early 2007, started to...

Written by DANIEL MASON Wednesday, 05 October 2011 16:53 The FT Deutschland this week reported that Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou was considering resignation. According to one source he feels powerless, because...

By DEAN CARROLL | 30.06.2011 This week, China made clear its intention to buy up government debt in Europe. The country's $3 trillion currency reserves, the largest in the world,...

By VASSILIS K. FOUSKAS | 08.05.2011 On speculation that the European Central Bank (ECB) would raise its interest rate, the Euro began rising to a 15-month high against the dollar....

BY ANN VEIDERPASS and PER-AKE ANDERSSON | 12.04.2011 Introduction This study attempts to add a piece to the aid effectiveness puzzle by presenting an alternative to the common growth regression approach....

 By Dr. Can Erbil | 22.03.2011 South-South Trade In the aftermath of the global financial crisis, trade between developing countries (South-South trade[1]) has become more vital and more vibrant than ever....

By Jagdish Bhagwati | 10 August 2010 President Barack Obama, addressing car workers recently at a GM plant in Michigan, defended his administration's motor industry bail-out, saying that it had rescued...

By Jagdish Bhagwati | 07 July 2010 At a debate in New York last year entitled “Buy American/Hire American Policies Will Backfire,” with hundreds of people in attendance, my team of three...

By Jagdish Bhagwati | 05 June 2010 India’s central bank governor issued in late April a critique of the alleged Chinese undervaluation of the yuan/renminbi, siding therefore with the U.S. politicians and...

By Dr. Kurtulus Gemici | 01 June 2010 Alchemy thrived in seeking how to turn ordinary, worthless metals into gold. To the dismay of countless alchemists, that goal has been rather elusive...

By Prof. Bulent Gokay | 01 June 2010 On 15 September 2008, the supposedly safe and perpetually prosperous world of post-industrial global economic order blew itself up when Lehman Brothers filed for...

By Gregory Borne | 15 April 2010   Abstract   (SD) within the United Nations (UN) represents a paradigm shift from first/industrial modernity to a reflexive modernity. Reflexive modernity is defined by...