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...first black female president and Africa’s first elected female head of state. A 1971 graduate of the Kennedy School of Government—where she earned a master’s in public administration—Johnson-Sirleaf is a former World Bank and Citibank economist who has promised to bring stability and economic development to her West African nation...
ROLA DASHTI, economist and candidate in Kuwait's parliamentary elections last week, urging women to cast ballots in the first poll in which they were allowed to run or vote. No woman was elected...
...also worked for the Washington Post, The Economist, and Harper?...
...workers between 1994 and 2005 using retirement and voluntary redundancies to lower costs and boost productivity. "The Tata group's relationship with its employees changed from the patriarchal to the practical," reads the Tata Code of Honor, which sets group-wide standards of conduct. Subir Gokarn, chief economist at ratings agency Crisil, says Ratan Tata read the runes of change and largely avoided the rash of business failures in India that followed reform: "He survived the bloodbath. Those who made no changes became extinct...
...Economic Policy Institute, the Fiscal Policy Institute and Policy Matters Ohio, however, show that minimum-wage laws rarely lower employment. "We now have 19 states that have raised their minimum wages above the federal minimum, and nothing like that kind of effect has occurred," says Jared Bernstein, senior economist for the Economic Policy Institute. "In the best research done by nonpartisan academics, the impact of moderate wage increases on job growth and displacement is about zero...