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...south, where my family - South Indians from Malaysia - had settled after immigrating in 1988. And although the Shire, as it's called, is one of the most Anglo-Saxon regions of the country, it was like the rest of Australia in its laid-back attitude to national sentiment. Sure, it was good to be Australian, but the rest of that stuff - the flag-waving, the chest-thumping - was the province of those jingoistic Yanks. When I was a teenager, the flag fluttered benignly on national holidays. There were occasions on which it flew prolifically, such as the 1988 national bicentenary...
...Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, decided to triple the IMF's resources to $750 billion. After nearly a decade on the sidelines, it was suddenly a player again. "The IMF is back," crowed IMF managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn. Boutros-Ghali is more cautious: "Now we need to make sure the money shows up, that it wasn't just pious words." (See pictures of the global financial crisis...
...loans? In the past the IMF has imposed tough conditions on borrowers, requiring them to prioritize economic and financial reforms ahead of political and social considerations. It's an issue that must be addressed anew, says Boutros-Ghali. "You want a minimum set of policies to make sure things don't get worse," he says. "[But] do we tell them to adjust right now, when it's most difficult? Or do we just give them the money...
...within a consumer mindset," observes Amanullah of Zabihah.com. "At the end of the day, people will not buy halal simply because it's halal. They're going to buy quality food. Ideology doesn't make a better-tasting burger, a better car, or a better computer." But it sure makes a powerful marketing pitch. With reporting by Shadiah Abdullah / Dubai...
...sure, the two stock market slumps in 2006 and 2008 created negative wealth effects. High-net-worth businessmen have been hit by the current global financial crisis. But there is no doubt that the macroeconomic picture is solid and healthy. Over the next five years Saudi Arabia has outlined a $400 billion spending program. In a decade or thereabouts, Saudi Arabia will become a $1 trillion economy and will be better placed than the rest in the region to capitalize on its knowledge and strengths. During the boom years, some critics said Saudi Arabia should become more like Dubai...