Fed up with what it sees as Washington’s malign neglect of the dollar, China is busily promoting the cross-border use of its own currency, the yuan, also known as the renminbi, in trade and investment.  Article

Too many countries are trying to pursue the same strategy at once. As the IMF says, “The implications for today are sobering — widespread fiscal consolidation efforts, deleveraging pressures from the private sector, adverse demographic trends, and the aftermath of the financial crisis are unlikely to provide the supportive external environment that played an important role in a number of previous episodes of debt reduction.”   Article

Food insecurity, starvation and malnutrition are not restricted just to the developing world. Environmental degradation, climate change and migration are increasingly compromising food security throughout the globe.  Article

The movie “Hunger Games” may be more real than it at first appears to be.

The European Union (EU) is now having to deal with the consequences of the hubris of the “great Europeans” of a previous generation. The people who created the euro — men such as Helmut Kohl, the former German chancellor, and Jacques Delors, the one-time head of the European Commission — shared Giscard d’Estaing’s eye for the history books. But their dream of leaving a legacy of a United Europe, with a single currency at its core, has turned into a nightmare.  Article

Malaysian women’s achievements until the over the first decade of the 21st century have been encouraging with many of them holding top positions in various fields including finance, science, corporate and humanities…article

Jobs are a cornerstone of development

The World Bank’s 2012 World Development Report on Jobs indicates that most jobs are created in the private sector and are often the driver, rather than outcome, of economic growth. ..article

The 25 Most Powerful Women in Finance

Forbes Magazine looks at the bleak political and economic situation in China and questions its reliability in trade. Article

PROTESTORS SURROUND AMERICAN AMBASSADOR’S CAR

It may be time to open the US doors again to the brightest and best of the world.  Article