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Lee's right to be worried. The debacle in Greece could be a harbinger of a new stage of the financial crisis, one in which irresponsible politicians, not bankers, are the main source of economic turmoil. Across the developed world, sovereign states have amassed potentially unsustainable mountains of debt. The...
It remains unclear whether the earthquake will have a significant effect on Harvard’s future programs in Chile, according to Veronica R. Martini, the development and external relations officer for DRCLAS.
Lessig also stressed the importance of the Internet in the development of a “remix culture”—in which people constantly build upon and combine existing creative content—pointing to YouTube videos as examples.
Security, Fayyad assumed, was one prerequisite of economic development. Another was transparent governance. "We're firing incompetents and thieves in the government. You can't be taken seriously unless you fire people," Fayyad says. As a result, "we're beginning to see some economic growth. Cement consumption is up 30...
But the world is fast changing and so, too, is Turkey. For the past eight years, a power struggle has been waged in Turkey between the secular establishment - backed by the military - and the ruling Islamic-rooted Justice and Development Party (AKP), led by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. But...