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Tackling one of the biggest threats to our children: Suicide

by Richard Attias on March 16, 2012 • Leave your comment • Tagged as: , , , ,

While I usually speak about economic issue or geopolitic or global issues, today I would like to discuss an issue that’s about care for our kids, about the next generation and about a specific danger they are facing: suicide. When (…)

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Emerging economies prosper as the west muddles through

by RIchard Attias and NYF Team on November 30, 2011 • Leave your comment • Tagged as: , , , , , , , , ,

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 (…)

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Obama at APEC: America is still welcome

by RIchard Attias and NYF Team on November 25, 2011 • Leave your comment • Tagged as: , , ,

Although his remarks at the recent APEC CEO conference in Hawaii earlier this month were mostly serious, US President Barack Obama opened with a joke. “This is my birthplace, I know that was contested for a while,” he said. “I (…)

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The Future. Redefined.

by RIchard Attias and NYF Team on November 12, 2011 • Leave your comment • Tagged as: , , , , , , ,

Michael Oreskes, a senior editor at the Associated Press, spends most of his time on the shores of the Atlantic but at APEC’s opening session today he said that being on the Pacific was a big relief. “The mood is (…)

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APEC’s economic game-changers

by RIchard Attias and NYF Team on November 10, 2011 • Leave your comment • Tagged as: , , , , ,

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 (…)

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Our leadership crisis

by RIchard Attias and NYF Team on November 9, 2011 • Leave your comment • Tagged as: , , , , , , ,

Over and again as the economic crisis ripples across the world, one has theme recurred: the need for leadership. When people are fighting adversity every day, they want politicians whom they trust, and if those don’t appear there is trouble. (…)

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APEC’s challenge: It’s still the economy

by RIchard Attias and NYF Team on November 7, 2011 • One comment • Tagged as: , , , , , ,

Last week saw the end of the G20 summit in Cannes, with the attendant focus on the Euro crisis. At the end of this week another meeting will be held which will hopefully have a more optimistic outcome: the APEC CEO summit, bringing (…)

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So what do the Occupy Wall Streeters really want?

by RIchard Attias and NYF Team on October 17, 2011 • Leave your comment • Tagged as: , , , , ,

New Yorkers breathed a sigh of relief last Friday at news that the owners of Zuccotti Park, where the Occupy Wall Street movement is based, had delayed a decision to clean it. Protestors had perceived the proposal as a preliminary act towards (…)

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In China’s shadow: Q&A with Arvind Subramanian

by NYF Team on September 6, 2011 • 2 comments • Tagged as: , , , , , , ,

Arvind Subramanian is author of Eclipse: Living in the Shadow of China’s Economic Dominance, published this fall, in which he argues that China will surpass the US as the world’s leading economic power sooner than many people think. He is (…)

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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: , , , , , , , , ,

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 (…)

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