World food commodity prices in August logged their largest monthly drop since December 2008, the United Nations food agency said on Thursday – unwelcome news for Europe’s struggling farmers. The Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO)...
The ongoing Syrian refugee crisis is indeed the darkest phase of world history after the WWII years! Unprecedented in its size and the scale of ripple effects the crisis has exhibited how disjointed our modern...
The government of India is a closed shop; its bureaucracy is recruited in its youth and rises in the hierarchy in order of seniority. One exception to this rule is the chief economic advisor, who...
Since the beginning of this year a relentless flow of images from the Italian island of Lampedusa, the city of Calais where the Eurotunnel starts, Bodrum in Turkey, the eastern islands of Greece, or the...
The influx of the Balkan refugees is the price Germany is paying for its covert geopolitical adventures in the Balkans.So around 40% of refugees infiltrating into Germany are from the Balkans! For the reader’s convenience...
Global automakers, still intoxicated with their own optimism after years of white-hot growth that transformed China’s auto market from a backwater to the largest market in the world, have an increasingly chilling message. The auto...
Mr Alexis Tsipras, Prime Minister of Greece is a worried man. His country’s inability to pay IMF Euro 1.5 billion means Greece is on the verge of being denied billion of Euros worth of future...
‘#Selfie’ – the pop number by The Chain smokers can probably be the anthem of newest social media trend in India. When Sunil Jaglan, a sarpanch in Haryana’s Bibipur village posted a selfie with his...
Lori Thicke still remembers the first time she fired an employee. The tipping point came after the young woman took yet another holiday without asking her boss. “When I challenged her, she told me, ‘why...
The European Central Bank is meant to be independent from politics. But it’s bending its own rules and mandate beyond recognition to buy incompetent politicians more time, says DW’s Rolf Wenkel. There’s no doubt about...
Raghuram Rajan does not lack confidence. He has been known to take on the world’s best economists and carry his point. He is not easily upset. But recently, he has been sounding more like a...
In 1991 when India announced its plans of economic liberalization the whole world saw a huge growth story developing. With the western advanced economies saturated and looking east towards poorer but hugely populated economies to...
