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...even at that level, "we do not expect any significant impact on overall growth" in Europe. German machinery companies are currently operating at over 90% of their potential capacity, the highest since 1990, and are thus well able to weather a weaker dollar, says Olaf Wortmann, an economist at the German Engineering Federation...
Mankiw—who briefly advised Senator John McCain in his 2000 White House run and served as chair of President Bush’s Council of Economic Advisers from 2003 to 2005—isn’t the only high profile economist on Romney’s team with Harvard ties...
...teamed with chirping Indian Mynah birds and the occasional peacock to a meeting room where the softly spoken Singh gave a short formal address. India's economy has experienced 8% annual growth for the past few years but it was vital to make that growth "inclusive," said Singh, an economist who began liberalizing India's moribund economy in the early 1990s. "Unless growth is inclusive, unless we create a lot more jobs in the process, unless we include the backward communities" then growth will be pointless...
...across the continent was widely billed as a battle for Latin America's soul: Venezuela's contest is the last of a grueling 10 presidential races since last December that pitted Washington's globalization agenda against the more statist policies of the new Latin American left. And with leftist economist and Chavez pal Rafael Correa defeating conservative billionaire Alvaro Noboa in this week's Ecuador run-off vote, a Chavez win will give the left a 6-4 edge. But the intensity of the contest will be demonstrated elsewhere on Friday - at the inauguration of Mexico's conservative President-elect...
...nominate Muhammad Yunus, the Bangladeshi economist who won the Nobel Prize this year for his work in microlending. I am fully convinced that the best way out of poverty is through this kind of financing. I proposed him for Person of the Year in '05 as well--I think his ideas could change the world...