Enriching Policy with Research written by Olivier Serrat (ADB) and Arnaldo Pellini (ODI). Available Asian Development Bank – Knowledge Solutions Series
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Enriching Policy with Research written by Olivier Serrat (ADB) and Arnaldo Pellini (ODI). Available Asian Development Bank – Knowledge Solutions Series
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Nokia, a mobile phone manufacturer, has led the industry since the 1980s. A recent article in the Economist (The Curse of the Alien Boss, August 7th 2010) confirmed that Nokia holds the leadership in headset sales and has the industry best distribution system. Thinking that this is the same company whose core business once were
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I am at the entrance of the pagoda of Gangaramaya in Colombo. As in the the pagoda compound everybody is walking barefoot, I take off my shoes and walk towards an old man sitting a table. Old style, black framed glasses. He sits at a table and issues tickets to foreign tourists. ‘100 Rupies, sir’
SOROS\’ PLEA Recently I found myself in not one but two meetings that also included George Soros, and I was inspired to furious intellectual effort. You see, I\’m convinced it\’s possible to construct a terrific palindrome centering on the famous investor\’s reversible last name. Unfortunately, the best I\’ve come up with so far is an
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Tensions erupted in Athens during demonstrations against the economic measures that government needs to take in order receive financial assistance from the IMF and the EU. Three people have died in a bank that went on fire. Three people. Who is responsible for their deaths. The ones who attacked the bank and put it on
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The global financial crisis seem to have had a lower impact in South Asia or South East Asia where countries were growing. The Philippines have not been immune from the recession in two ways: reduced economic expansion and incomes for people at home and reduced remittances from overseas where the many Filipinos work and had their jobs threatened by the crisis.
Reverse remittance Read More »