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Florence Parly: Sales Push
French ministers of Defence are expected to not just administer the country’s armed forces, but help sell military hardware as well. A political outsider, Florence Parly was recruited into the cabinet by President Emanuel Macron and Prime Minister Édouard Philippe
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Peter Sloterdijk: Shaping a Multipolar National Debate
A prolific writer, publishing some sixty books over a career spanning four decades, German philosopher Peter Sloterdijk recently celebrated his seventieth birthday. Europe’s leading intellectuals and academics flocked to Mr Sloterdijk’s native Karlsruhe to pay tribute. Chancellor Angela Merkel chipped
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The Local Climate Adaptive Living Facility (LoCAL) of UNCDF: Climate Change Impacts on Natural and Human Systems
“For women, the road was crucial. It was hard to deliver babies because of access: we had to go to the hospital by boat – it was risky. And also for the children, floods made it impossible for them to
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Otaviano Canuto, World Bank: Overlapping Globalisations
Current technological developments in manufacturing are likely to lead to a partial reversal of the wave of fragmentation and global value chains that was at the core of the rise of North-South trade from 1990 onward. At the same time,
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Book Review: Private Island – Why Britain Now Belongs to Someone Else
A Balance Disturbed for All the Wrong Reasons It remains somewhat of a mystery how Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne manages the UK government’s financial affairs. Presiding over a buoyant economy, planning the biggest privatisation exercise ever, and mandating
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Preference Pass: Sunny Travel Savings Franchise
Avid world travelers may have experienced the hopelessness of arriving in a foreign land with little information and knowledge. At best the wary traveler ends up paying a premium for sub-par goods and services. By the time the ins and
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Mercury Capital Advisors: Customisation and Global Presence
Headquartered in New York, and with offices in London, Tokyo, Singapore, Dubai, San Francisco, Boston, and Washington DC, Mercury Capital Advisors competes via a differentiated platform with product offerings across private equity, hedge funds, real estate, credit, distressed, venture capital,
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Alexander Forbes Group: Three Strategies for Growth
Alexander Forbes Group Holdings Limited, a specialised financial services group headquartered in South Africa, successfully listed on the main board of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) on Thursday 24 July, 2014. The company focuses on employee benefits solutions for institutional
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A Sojourn in Davos: Things Will Never Be the Same
Book Review – The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann For all its potential as a canvas for the display of human suffering, sick-lit never quite made it as a genre. In her 1926 essay On Being Ill, Virginia Woolf expressed
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New Business-Registration Portal Goes Global
A new web portal has been launched to help companies directly access, and assess the user-friendliness of, business registration websites around the world. Global Enterprise Registration or www.ger.co is the brainchild of Ann Low, Deputy Director of the Office of
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