. Who will lead us out of the financial crisis? DR. JIM LEONTIADES CIIM, The Cyprus Business School Even before the current financial crisis, the position of the United States as the
. The current economic situation should be used as an opportunity to restructure the island’s tourism industry, chief among the reforms being the urgency for a Gaming Commission that will oversee the
By Laurence Fletcher Bankers may rank below journalists among the professions least trusted by Britons, but they refuse to accept all the blame for the worst financial crisis in 70 years. Conceding
By Raymond Colitt Pedro Ferreira spends his days and nights in a cramped, steamy tunnel under the damp earth of the Amazon rain forest, chipping away at a wall of rock glittering
By Gordon Bell Investors fear a shift in the policies that have fuelled South Africa's longest period of economic growth despite expectations that next week's election will leave the political landscape unchanged.
By Andrew Marshall The colour of the T-shirts worn by the mobs of protesters paralysing Thai politics may change from time to time, but everything else about the country's damaging deadlock remains
By Jasmin Melvin As a deep recession strips Americans of their jobs, homes and investments, the 2009 U.S. tax season promises to see a large uptick in first-time delinquent income taxpayers. "Our
By Matthias Williams Ram Babu Manjhi is weak with hunger as he stumbles across a field to an irrigation ditch he's been digging for a month in eastern India. Under a flagship
By Eva Kuehnen It has neither train station nor cinema, but this Bavarian town has not been bypassed by globalisation. Ambition and leverage have brought it to its deepest crisis since World
By Andrew Hay Mari Cruz keeps her designer sunglasses perched in her hair as she lunches on pork and vegetables from a blue plastic tray in the first municipal soup kitchen Spain
