Since the discovery of tea, potatoes and chocolate, foods from foreign countries have made a significant contribution to the diet of Britons. And during the past few decades, the variety and popularity of formerly exotic cuisines has increased to such an extent that the late Robin Cook declared...
“There appear to be trillion-dollar bills on the sidewalk” if we lift restrictions on emigration, says Michael Clemens at the Center for Global Development, a think tank in Washington DC, who did the research.But who gets those billions? Most of the extra wealth goes to migrants ...
“For whatever reasons, markets now exhibit far more casino-like behavior than they did when I was young,” Buffett wrote, adding that “though the stock market is massively larger than it was in our early years, today’s active participants are neither more emotionally stable nor better ...
We did it with the clear understanding that like the European countries have done with their bubble, we would be able to use the flexible, market-based Kyoto mechanisms without arbitrary limits to meet our obligations cost-effectively. That agreement must hold....
The East German government had the dubious distinction locking up people who tried to leave their country. Here in Australia, we are locking up people who were escaping tyranny and arrived on our shores by boat. Unemployment in a capitalist country is encouraged by the government as a tool of...
Basically, about 5600 years ago, migrants from South America brought with them unique types of corn, and these, in turn, were used to help sustain the ancient Maya civilization. How was discovery actually made? The dental remains of the new migrants were analyzed! That's s...
Finland decided to close the last road border crossing that had remained open on its frontier with Russia after it continued to push migrants into the Nordic country. New information and estimates indicated that “instrumentalized immigration” would have intensified without the decision, Prime Minister...
disabilities and others - for example companies such as Starbucks and IKEA have particular programs that employ refugees, while in Sydney, Australia, the Social Outfit, a fashion label and the Bread & Butter Project, a commercial bakery, are two SMEs completely run by refugees a...
"Australia is an increasingly attractive destination for investment migrants, in part due to the handling of Covid-19 from an economic and health perspective. Chinese Mainland nationals have long been the largest source of applicants, although declining from around 90% between 2012 and 2015 to 84...
Allowing people to work or study or settle wherever suits them best makes our communities more diverse and tolerant of different cultural values. I think a lot of Brits overestimate the negative impact of EU migrants; we pay far more in taxes than we take in social welfare...