Tag Archives: #IncomeInequality

Mixed Signals on Global Economy: #Investment Up, #Trade Down!

The latest data from the UN for 2015 evidences record global foreign direct investment. However, measures of trade, at least according to shipping data indicate something worse than a mere…

Papal Support for Labor

Pope Francis’s recent statements on income inequality and labor have been characterized by some as beyond the norm.  However, the history of Popes that have seen organized labor as consistent…

Reboot of #Development #Finance

From gender equality to sustainability, the key catalyst will be a new approach to development finance. Profit is not a dirty word and growth is not the overriding objective.  Rather,…

IMF Sees Risk for US Economy if Interest Rates Raised Prematurely?

The risk is both political and economic, perhaps never greater since the defining moments prior to WW II.  There is a tendency to ignore global economic and diplomatic advice among…

NATO’s Future Rises to Focus of US Presidential Election 2016?

NATO was critical to the shaping of the “new Europe” two decades earlier after the fall of the Iron Curtain. Similar and new challenges have emerged where once again NATO…

Failing Grade on Education?

If we are to raise education to a human right then the globe is failing 20% of its adolescents and at least 10% of children of primary school age according…