Posted on April 5, 2015. Tags: Cuba, December 17, embargo, Latin America, normalization, Obama, relations, Trade, U.S., World Bank
“Hello, happy holidays!” In mid-March? Strolling down the cobble stone streets that skirt the Plaza of the Cathedral and the Plaza de Armas, this phrase is ubiquitous. As any visitor of Old Havana can attest, Cubans often hurl this at passing tourists irrespective of the season. To U.S. citizens, the moment may falsely present itself […]
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Posted in Latin America, US
Posted on January 21, 2015. Tags: China, Corruption, Economics, Graft, Growth, India, Modi, Politics, Poverty, wealth, World Bank
As anyone who has spent any length of time travelling in India will attest, it is a country of stark contrasts. In few ways is this more obvious than the vast disparities in wealth between 500 million of India’s total 1.27 billion citizens living on less than $1.25 per day and a small but increasingly wealthy elite […]
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Posted in Asia, Economic Security, Economics, Food Security, Global Economy, India, Uncategorized, World