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Hussein's plight reflects one of the burgeoning problems of the global downturn. Countries that built successful economies in part on the backs of cheap migrant workers now face upheaval in their labor markets. In places like Taiwan, Malaysia, South Korea, and the Gulf states, companies are folding, factories are...
All this means fashion lovers are cutting back on spending. "Right now we are seeing signs of de-premiumization - meaning that shoppers are trading down for cheaper items," says Victoria Grankina, a retail analyst at leading Russian investment bank Troika Dialog. "Overall, the luxury market really struggled in December and...
Trade Credits. When you stay at Barcelona's Hotel Casanova, you'll get a one-to-one exchange rate between the U.S. dollar and the euro. Meaning you can pay the room rate, posted in euros, in an equal number of dollars, instead of the current 1-euro-to-$1.35...
Soon after starting his job as superintendent of the Memphis, Tenn., public schools in 2008, Kriner Cash ordered an assessment of his new district's 104,000 students. The findings were grim: nearly a third had been held back at least one academic year. The high school graduation rate had...
Most foreign policy books are ... avoidable. They tend to be written in an abstruse language that occasionally approaches English. The most commercial of them promise a new theory of the world: it is flat (economically), America's influence is waning (or waxing), the nature of power is changing, growing softer...