Articles inside the category: Urbi et Orbi
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Wednesday, 8 Jun, 2011
A majority of children and women in the developing world die of diseases that could easily be prevented and can be cured with little effort. Ensuring financial access to health care for the poor is everything but simple. For the world’s poorest, health is a monetary not a medical problem.
Thirty years ago the Centre for Disease control discovered the first incidence of what is now known as AIDS in five men in Los Angeles. Today about 2.5 million people die of the virus every year, accor...
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On Monday, when news broke that America’s enemy number one had at long last found a watery end, stock markets surged. Investors’ positive reaction to Osama Bin Laden’s death was however short lived; the Dow Jones in fact closed a little below the previous day’s trading level. The fact that markets reacted at all is telling of how emotional investors react to unanticipated information.
It is straightforward to understand how an investor might change his asset allocation in reaction...
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Economic globalization describes the unprecedented flows of capital and goods across the globe. It is the norm for a pair of Jeans to have been designed in the US, stitched tog...
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Tuesday, 15 Feb, 2011
“The time to buy is when there’s blood on the street,” the eighteenth-century banker Nathan Rothschild famously advised. Yet where Rothschild made a fortune during the ch...
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