Archive for the “Uncertainty” 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 (…)
Should we be concerned about China?
by NYF Team on August 31, 2011 • One comment • Tagged as: china, economy, IMF, inflation, Joe Biden, property bubble
A round-up of news and opinion. When US Vice President Joe Biden visited China earlier this month he went on a charm offensive. ”Our mutual success will benefit the whole world,” he told his audience. “As the two largest economies in (…)
For Egypt’s stability, jobs and food prices will be key: Q&A with Prof. Bruce Rutherford
by NYF Team on August 26, 2011 • Leave your comment
Bruce Rutherford is the author of Egypt After Mubarak: Liberalism, Islam, and Democracy in the Arab World (Princeton, 2008), a book that examines the political and ideological battles occurring in contemporary Egypt, and which Time Magazine’s Fareed Zakaria described as “fascinating and timely.” Rutherford (…)
Egypt looks to an uncertain economic future
by NYF Team on August 25, 2011 • Leave your comment • Tagged as: economy, Egypt, IMF, Libya, Muammar el-Qaddafi, World Bank
A round-up of news and opinion. As the search for Muammar el-Qaddafi goes on in Libya today, a neighbor is grappling with the outcome of its own Arab spring. Egypt, the Arab world’s most populous country, moves towards a new regime, (…)
