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...talk up the economic prospects. Earlier this week, Russian Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin told a global investment and finance conference in Moscow that the economy will grow by 2% or 3% in 2010. Kudrin said a recovery depends on a resurgence of private spending. "The moment when private demand revitalizes itself on the market is the moment we emerge from the crisis," Kudrin said, the Russian media reported...
Perhaps. But Russia has no chance of recovering until demand for steel and raw commodities increases. "There will not be a recovery anywhere until demand recovers. The horrible statistics are showing no signs of stopping," says Kevin Dougherty, a portfolio manager at Pharos Fund, one of the leading hedge fund groups in Russia. "All it really comes down to are commodity prices and demand. The government looks at the market price for oil and predicts that it will bottom out now and go up for the rest of the year...
...Just as the general competition goes up, so the bad news is that it’s harder to get a job at all in academia,” the computer science professor said. “The good news is that the supply is large relative to the demand, so the quality ought to increase in all good dimensions.” At present, it is unclear whether or not the program will be temporary, but if the program does stay, some professors voiced worry that it may grow too large. “What you don?...
...Some economists argue it is unrealistic to expect that China, which saw its slowest growth in seven years last quarter, will be able to boost its domestic demand through short-term spending enough to mitigate steep declines in global trade. "The idea that China will be helping the rest of the world is a myth," says Ben Simpfendorfer, a Hong Kong-based China economist for the Royal Bank of Scotland. "Almost half of what it imports is related to export processing. A large share of the remainder is commodities. It imports little for its own consumption. That befits its status...
...Lula da Silva did make a halfhearted attempt to spur a national debate last year, calling abortion a public-health issue - even as he declared himself steadfastly against it. But with the Church quick to stifle such talk and the general public not sufficiently engaged to demand action, the debate never took off. In truth, abortions and unwanted pregnancies are a sad constant in Brazil. Although abortion is illegal, an estimated 1 million women each year have one. The poor are forced into clandestine clinics or take medication, while the better-off are treated by qualified physicians at well-appointed...