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BBC Business, 05.01.09 17:02 UTC

Thatcher's economics adviser dies

Ex-prime minister Margaret Thatcher's controversial economics adviser, Sir Alan Walters, has died, aged 82.
Alan Walters  Margaret Thatcher  Nigel Lawson  Birmingham University  International Bank for Reconstruction and Development 

Times Online Business, 05.01.09 16:01 UTC

Sir Alan Walters, Thatcher's economic guru, dies aged 82

Sir Alan Walters, the monetary theorist who was knighted for his services as Margaret Thatcher's economics guru but ultimately helped to hasten her political demise, has died at the age of 82. Sir ...
Washington  Baltimore  the Times  the Times  United States  Britain  +8 more

Newsweek World News, 02.01.09 19:03 UTC

How To Fix Globalization

A broader array of nations needs to unite around finance, energy and the environment.
finance  financial systems  ”a network  energy  United States  India  +3 more

Newsweek International Edition, 31.12.08 22:00 UTC

Fareed Zakaria: Writing the Rules for a New World

Today's problems ignore national boundaries. The world needs smart management that does the same.
Washington  Germany  China  France  Japan  Britain  +6 more

BusinessWeek, 30.12.08 21:32 UTC

Macedonia's Controversial New Labor Law

The government says new workplace rules bring the Balkan country in line with European free market norms. But employees fret they're getting the shaft
Skopje  labor law  law-school graduate  Macedonia  Denis Boskovski  Nikola Gruevski  +3 more

BusinessWeek, 30.12.08 05:02 UTC

For Big Oil, a Day of Reckoning

Posted by: Steve LeVine on December 28 Most of us are elated with gasoline prices, especially those driving to see relatives. We are down on the Chesapeake shore, and filled up the mini-van for $1.49 ...
Exxon  Goldman Sachs  Gulf of Mexico  Chesapeake shore  oil producing  barrel oil  +14 more

Nature, 29.12.08 17:05 UTC

Single fund for African science aid

Cash pool could break power struggles between competing agencies on the continent.
Abuja  Milton Keynes  Development Bank  technology fund  Japan  Nigeria  +14 more

WashingtonPost World, 29.12.08 04:31 UTC

U.N. Mulls Reengaging Burma With More Aid

Diplomacy Unable to Yield Political Reforms
bank  Burma  Britain  United States  Myanmar  Laura Bush  +5 more

guardian.co.uk, 26.12.08 14:31 UTC

Guinea president Lansana Conté buried as military coup leaders consolidate control

. Guinea was burying its long-serving authoritarian president, Lansana Conté, todayas the group of miltary officers that staged a coup in the aftermath of his death attempted to consolidate its ...
Reuters  Guinea  Ahmed Tidiane  Diarra Camara  Mamadouba Toto Camara  Lansana Conte  +1 more

Telegraph, 25.12.08 15:33 UTC

Dead Sea to receive water from Red Sea to save it from drying up

The Dead Sea could be saved from drying up under a groundbreaking plan to flood millions of gallons of seawater in from the Red Sea more than 110 miles away.
Environmental Resources Management  Jordan River  Red Sea  Dead Sea  Israel  Jordan  +2 more
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