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...fortunes of one company. For corporate Japan, however, the question is whether his appointment represents a wholesale shift in boardroom thinking. Within Japan itself, Sony has always appeared a bit of a maverick: "Not a typical Japanese company," in the words of Richard Katz, editor of the Oriental Economist newsletter. Edward Lincoln, of the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, D.C., and author of the book Arthritic Japan: The Slow Pace of Economic Reform, points out that Sony was the first Japanese company to list on the New York Stock Exchange and the first to adopt a Western-style management...
...Kapur intends the audience to draw global parallels. The "water rats" can be street kids from Bombay, Rio, even London. Paradise-club patrons are sex tourists. The upper-lower divide is the chasm between First and Third Worlds. Kapur the director is making a film written by Kapur the economist. "Bombay puts it all together, the contrast, the contradictions, in a way that you never have to think about in London or New York," he says. "And that's what the film will...
Many professors dismissed this initial motion as too narrowly tailored to garner significant support among the Faculty. That motion even referenced a 1991 memo Summers signed while Chief Economist for the World Bank, arguing that the third world is under-polluted...
...TIME: You quote Nobel prizewinning economist Amartya Sen in your speech. Chidambaram: Sen argues that it's growth that expands freedom. There is a belief among some sections that even with low growth, you can achieve your social objectives. I don't share that view. Growth is paramount. As long as I keep India on a 7%-plus growth path, as long as we keep inflation within limits and do not slow down our efforts to open up India's economy, reduction of poverty will follow...
...donor countries (starting with an extra $70 billion per year as of 2006), in order to halve poverty by 2015. He's a special adviser to Annan while pursuing a day job as head of Columbia University's Earth Institute, which reflects his philosophy as an economist: that sustainable development can be achieved only through an approach that considers everything from geography to infrastructure to family structure. "Right now, I'm just running flat between all these various assignments," he said last week. "I got back from Ethiopia yesterday. Did a dinner talk. Flew to Washington. I'm hosting...