Word: foreigners
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...home. Aside from corruption, Brazil's public bureaucracy is one of the world's most wasteful. Education, despite increased funding and access, is an embarrassment: students consistently score near the bottom of international math, science and reading tests. Exorbitant taxes and violent crime scare off foreign investors, and in the Amazon, deforestation remains a problem...
...analysts called the nation's biggest shake-up in decades, President Raúl Castro dismissed several top officials with ties to his ailing brother. The move, which some say indicates Castro is placing his imprimatur on the Cuban government, comes after his first year in office. Among those affected were Foreign Minister Felipe Pérez Roque and Vice President Carlos Lage, both of whom had been considered potential presidential candidates. Fidel Castro backed the moves, blasting some of his former cohort for being corrupted by 'the honey of power...
...should not have illegally sought to gather information and news in Iran.' Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman HASSAN GHASHGHAVI, saying the former BBC reporter's press accreditation had been revoked since...
...easy. "Shock therapy," slashed budgets and the privatization of state factories and firms stoked corruption and left millions temporarily worse off. But with political stability and reforms (most of them tied to European Union membership), the region went on to enjoy more than a decade of rollicking growth, massive foreign direct investment and steady employment...
...snapped shut. The global credit crunch has hit the economies of Eastern Europe hard. In Hungary and Latvia the International Monetary Fund has stepped in with emergency aid. (Latvia's government collapsed anyway.) Currencies have crashed, leading the European Central Bank to help Hungarians and Poles keep paying their foreign currency-denominated mortgages by pumping in euros. The fear now is that the region's banks could collapse, especially if Western banks yank credit lines to eastern subsidiaries. Such a move would be counterproductive. Western banks, particularly in places such as Austria, Belgium and Sweden, have huge exposure to emerging...