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China and Germany ahead on cleantech: Q&A with Devashree Saha from the Brookings Institution
by NYF Team on August 22, 2011 • Leave your comment • Tagged as: Brookings Institution, china, cleantech, economy, employment, Germany, Google, green energy, jobs, solar
Devashree Saha is a senior policy analyst in the Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institution. Earlier this year she co-authored a report on the clean economy. Over email, she tells the New York Forum why this industry matters, and — with (…)
America, the ordinary?
by Speakers and contributors on June 21, 2011 • 2 comments • Tagged as: America, corrupt duopoly, Edmund Phelps, Innovation, New York Times, Silicon Valley, Thomas Friedman, usa
The first session of Day 2 of the New York Forum was a hot, flat and crowded panel with a half dozen heavy hitters on the inexhaustible topic of America in decline. Has the U.S. lost its edge? asked CNBC’s (…)
The Chinese Model: Finding its Internal Balance
by Frieda on June 21, 2011 • One comment • Tagged as: Alcoa, china, China Vanke Company, Feng Lun, Fosun International, Klaus Kleinfeld, Liang Xinjun, Vantone Holdings Company, Wang Shi
China’s massive expansion over the past three decades has made for tremendous international as well as domestic ramifications. So far there has been stability in this economic growth, but it’s hard to know if that will last with the proliferation (…)
Different sensibilities, different results
by Speakers and contributors on June 21, 2011 • One comment • Tagged as: Beth Brooke, Cecilia Attias, children, Cindi Leive, family, glamour, human capital, Laetitia Pichot de Cayeux, Luis Alberto Moreno, Phillip Scanlan
The afternoon session, “Different Sensibilities, Different Results,” brought together Cecilia Attias, Founder, Cecilia Attias Foundation for Women; Beth Brooke, Global Vice Chair, Ernst & Young; Luis Alberto Moreno, President, Inter-American Development Bank; Laetitia Pichot de Cayeux, CEO and Portfolio Manager, (…)
The Rise of MultiLatinas
by Speakers and contributors on June 21, 2011 • Leave your comment
The media loves to tell the tale of the fairy tale recovery of Latin Tiger economies, which have risen up from the scourge of runaway inflation and odious debt that cursed the continent in the 1980s. But at the New (…)
Jobs! Jobs! Jobs!
by Speakers and contributors on June 20, 2011 • One comment
What is the number one way to fast-track job creation in the United States, where 14 million people are currently unemployed? At the New York Forum, Chrystia Freeland of Thomson Reuters posed this question to a few of the business (…)
