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...fourth try for the Prime Minister's post, former Foreign Minister Taro Aso ascended to the top job on Sept. 24. A brash, freewheeling nationalist given to political gaffes (he has joked about Alzheimer's disease and said he wanted Japan to be an attractive destination for "rich Jews"), Aso, 68, cuts a sharply different figure from his dour predecessors, Shinzo Abe and Yasuo Fukuda--whose tenures were dogged, respectively, by scandal and partisan gridlock. A former Olympic sharpshooter and an avid fan of manga comics, he has stressed energizing Japan's flagging economy but must overcome voter disaffection with...
Lula's biggest challenge, though, has been bridging the huge chasm between Brazil's rich and poor--a gap that makes the country look more like the feudal monarchy it was in the 19th century than the modern democracy it wants to be in the 21st. Lula, who as an impoverished kid shined shoes on the streets of São Paulo, has pumped more than $100 billion into social projects ranging from microfinance to grants for families who keep their kids in school. As a result, 52% of Brazil's 190 million people are now designated as middle class...
France has long liked to see itself as the other, non-American model for organizing a modern economy, with a rich tradition of exalting the state and disdaining "Anglo-Saxon"-style capitalism. So it would be completely de rigueur for the French to smile smugly over Washington's French-style intervention in the financial markets. But by and large, they're not. For however suddenly the U.S. government has embraced the Gallic tradition of nationalization, the French economy has itself been slowly and surely becoming très américaine. As a result, the impulse to utter "I told...
...This is equivalent to enhancing the ownership of already rich people,†Reeves said before the vote...
...breach between Washington and Caracas matters less to Brazilians than the huge chasm between the nation's rich and poor. Lula, who as an impoverished kid shined shoes on the streets of São Paulo, has pumped some $100 billion into anti-poverty projects like Bolsa Familia (Family Purse), which provide everything from rewards for poor families who keep their kids in school to financing for small farmers and entrepreneurs. As a result, 52% of Brazil's 180 million people now occupy the middle class, up from 44% when Lula took office...