Archive for the “Economic Crisis” category
Global Food Security: The Biggest Challenge For Our World
by Richard Attias on March 14, 2012 • Leave your comment • Tagged as: famine, global food security, Somalia, UN, Unicef, US Department of Agriculture, Yemen
Last week in Rabat, Morocco, we launched the Global Food Security Forum, which was created as an initiative of OCP Group (the world’s leading provider of phosphates based in Morocco). We felt the particularly urgent need to do this now, because as climate change (…)
Emerging economies prosper as the west muddles through
by RIchard Attias and NYF Team on November 30, 2011 • Leave your comment • Tagged as: Anthony Nightingale, Bill English, china, credit downgrades, Diane Brady, emerging economies, Kirill Dmitriev, New Zealand, Russian Direct Investment Fund, smart money
Right now, the smart money is sitting on the sidelines. This is what Diane Brady, senior editor and content chief of Bloomberg Businessweek, suggested at a panel discussion at APEC earlier this month. The other speakers didn’t entirely disagree, especially (…)
A new role for China
by RIchard Attias and NYF Team on November 21, 2011 • Leave your comment • Tagged as: APEC, china, Hu Jintao, sustainability
It’s no secret that China’s future looks brighter than that of other nations. Green energy, innovation, and a more prominent role in world politics will all be part of the picture, said President Hu Jintao at the APEC CEO summit (…)
APEC’s economic game-changers
by RIchard Attias and NYF Team on November 10, 2011 • Leave your comment • Tagged as: APEC, Chile, growth, Indonesia, Peru, Vietnam
As the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation gets ready for its CEO summit this weekend, all eyes will be on the leaders of those countries that are not just weathering the global downturn but booming. They are the economic champions, already changing (…)
A show of unity, at last
by RIchard Attias and NYF Team on October 29, 2011 • Leave your comment • Tagged as: Angela Merkel, bailout, euro crisis, Nicholas Sarkozy, Silvio Berlusconi
In Brussels last week European ministers reached agreement on the debt crisis (in fact they reached it at 4am on Wednesday morning). It had been thought that expectations might be too high. Already an earlier meeting of finance ministers had (…)
